One difference is you can explain what makes paedophilia wrong, who it harms, and exactly how, and how that harm compares to the "harm" of denying the paedophil

One difference is you can explain what makes paedophilia wrong, who it harms, and exactly how, and how that harm compares to the "harm" of denying the paedophile, while there are no such facts to explain about homosexuality. I don't mean that merely stating a few truths solves all the problem and that conversion therapy would work, I'm just saying that there is a difference. I know if it were me, maybe nothing would change what I want, but the therapy aspect has to have valid arguments just as a baseline to even allow for the possibility that I even listen at all. Maybe for some at least it's enough to cause them to artificially control themselves. I don't think that's too crazy because I think artificially civil behavior is rather common. I mean good grief just the phenomenon of cheating in relationships. It happens rather a lot, but for every occurance of cheating in a relationship there must be 1000 artificially decided not to do something they really did want to. It probably just comes down to how many paedophiles are actually full on sociopaths or psychopaths that don't really empathize with anyone, the kids being no different, vs how many just want what they want in that one context but otherwise are functional humans who do possess the ability to empathize and care about anyone else. Those are two different cases.