Pedophilia is unique in ways, but I think it can still be useful to draw comparisons (not equivalence!) to other potentially-harmful conditions and see how societies have been able to handle or treat them.

I imagine the largest barrier to people reaching out for help is fear of retribution, and it seems like it’d be pretty difficult to allay those fears.

What first comes to mind for me is ‘hard’ drug addiction, like heroin and methamphetimines. We can look at societies who have just rejected people with these addictions and usage, opting for alienation and imprisonment. Tempting to do, since severe addictions can (emphasizing: can) cause antisocial activity like indiscriminate theft and violence, and most people don’t have the experience and/or skills to treat addiction adequately nor is there often a surrounding environment that enables recovery. Obviously, this hasn’t worked and (99/100) neither prisons nor homelessness are constructive environments for addiction recovery. I think there’s a similar situation with pedophilia, especially since it’s completely normal to conflate pedophilia (a mental condition) with child abuse (actions). If we alienate pedophiles completely (and that doesn’t mean don’t take precautions, nor does it mean tolerating the abuse advocacy losers online) then where will they turn to?

This Norwegian approach we’re seeing, with public government acknowledgement and running programs, seems like a step in the same direction of countries trying to treat rather than prosecute hard drug addiction (e.g. Portugal). Obviously I can’t speak to this program’s efficacy but I respect the approach and how public it is, even if it’s confronting to everyone.

If our number one priority is actually protecting children, then we can’t let our feelings get in the way of something that might keep children out of harm’s way.

As for pedophilia itself, I wonder which lessons can be drawn from other antisocial fetishism, say sadism. If there wasn’t a BDSM community able to educate and connect sadists to consenting partners, it’d seem like only personal ethics/morals and legal consequences would be preventing domestic or sexual violence. But since there is a constructive community, many sadists are able to avoid abuse of others and avoid complete repression, which I’d assume is a win-win, and therefore that the increasing awareness of and stigmatization of the BDSM community is a social benefit. Now, clearly, you can’t just copy-paste this to pedophilia fetishism for obvious reasons, but I suspect coping mechanisms like adult age-play or something might provide a valid outlet if other psychological treatment isn’t effective. Obviously this is all me guessing and exploring ideas, I am not a psychologist nor have read much research, I don’t know if (for example) it would instead reinforce their fetishism, but it’s something worth researching. (I’m not involved in any of these communities so lmk if I’ve used incorrect or insensitive terms). And yeah, I’d still think age-play and similar are creepy as all hell but at the end of the day it boils down to being my personal feelings about other people’s private lives, and we’ve all seen how the feels-governance approach works out given conservatives’ attacks on groups they find icky.

Not just family but gender as well needs to be revolutionized to put an end to child sexual abuse. I recently shared A. Mark Liddle’s 1993 article “Gender, Desire and Child Sexual Abuse: Accounting for the Male Majority”, which might be of interest to you. I have also pointed out on a previous occasion that our mode of production pretty much necessarily views children as objects to exploit — see pushes to abolish child labor laws, which I must mention is also an aim to some extent of Norway’s far-right Progress Party, who came second place in the recent election. So I have for a while now seen pedophilia as being at least to some extent a sort of sexual manifestation of this capitalist attitude towards children: objects to exploit for work, objects to exploit for sex, right? So this is why I say “pedophilia is a system”.

Does Norwegian have a benefactive marker similar to Japanese くれる/くださる?

No, the original phrasing is just "så"so fintnice atthat duyou tartake kontakt!"contact!"