this arguement applies only to cases where an adult male is attracted to female children.
the idea hit me when i was rereading a book on psychological development, and listening to some videos playing that had somehow drifted into the drama of jewtubers who were accused of being inappropriate with minors.
my thought is that a pedo man who sexually desires a little girl is programned with a reproductive strayegy that takes advantage of her characteristics as both a child and as a female.
as a child, shes highly impressionable, and whatever relationship is established between the two would be imprinted deeply into her psychology. this means the establishment of a strong pair-bonding between the two.
shes sexually immature when they begin having intercourse, but she will get older, and when she eventually becomes fertile she will be pair bonded to the pedo, and he would have a wife who has just entered imto her reproductive window. pedophiles are the result of an older reproductive strategy that is pair-bonding taken to the extreme, with both risks and rewards exaggerated.
they will not lose attraction to her as she ages, for the same reasons that couples who got together as teenagers could still find one another sexually attractive even after they grow old. they may be exclusively attracted to females of a certain age range, but that only counts for the establishment of their relationships, as it progresses that attraction can persist even long after she has aged out of that range.
also, the idea of ditching her for having grown too old is based on a misconception about the vast majority of pedophiles.
pedophiles tend to be men who are attracted to women as well as any man, rather than having the window at which they find the opposite sex attractive, they instead have the range of that window be wider compared to a non-pedo.
alternatively, one could say that heterosexual men were first programmed by evolution to be able to become sexually attracted to all female humans, and later on they acquired another layer of programmimg that established a limit on the lower end of the ages at which females were perceived as viable sexual partners. the pedophile simply has the same basic attractions as any other man, but without this additional limiter attatched to it to hold his attractions back.
i must remind you that evolutionary psychology mainly deals with how our minds had adapted to an environment that is much older than our current circumstances, we are talking pre-historical eras here. some of the disadvantages of being a pedophole today wouldnt apply to societies which had existed back then.
evolution doesnt care for our morals, its only concerned with what chatacteristics are best at improving reproductive success for the beings who possess them.
there are good reasons in evolutionary psychology why you as a father would not want your extremely young daughter to be sexually active with a man, especially when she is at a vulnerable age (say, below the age of her first seven years of life). it would endanger her chances of having children of her own, thus passing on the genetics she had received from you.
so a general rule and cultural value is established against fucking females whose ages fall below a certain threshold.
but there is advantage to your genes when you are able to put your peen in the vagoo of another man's 4 year old daughter.
thus the crime os like theft; we are programned to be hypocrtitical, seeking to commit the crime against others and evade punishment whilst also seeking to catch others who commit the crime and punish them for it.
we are in many eays programmed to be hypocrites, the essense of evolution is hypocrisy: competition means hypocritically seeking some goal whilst at the same time attempting to prevent others from achieving that sane sort of goal. evolution is all a great competition between organisms who either share a common niche in the environment, or whose niche makes them a threat to the survival of another being.
there are only two goals, and they are keeping your genes around for as long as possible, while ensuring that the genes in your dna tend to show up together in the sane organisms as often as they can. though this is not perfectly accurate; evolution is a game played by genes, organisms are just the teams they get drafted into as they pursue their individual goals.