The reason why pedophilia is so widespread
Monogamy ⟹ Pedophilia 🤯
Jeffrey Epstein (1953 – 2019) was a famous North American convicted child sex offender. He owned a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands. He was accused of allegedly inviting many elite and prominent men to his island for the purpose of offering them the opportunity to have sex with children.
In 2008, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and officially registered as a sexual offender. He was indicted in 2019 for sexual trafficking of children in the 2000s.
After his death in 2019, the public release of “the Epstein files” provided a glimpse into the huge social network of elite and prominent individuals that he had cultivated. The people mentioned in the “the Epstein files” included billionaires, CEOs, tech titans, presidents, prime ministers, princes, politicians, government officials, Wall Street power brokers, and more.
They denied having sex with children. However, some of them maintained friendships with Epstein even after news reports made him widely known as an alleged abuser of young girls (according to the Associated Press in February 2026).
Power disparity in sexual relationships
Consider the following example of someone's argumentation in support of having sex when a power disparity exists between the two people.
“I find it incredible to see how many people believe that they are entitled to arbitrarily decide that sex is sexual abuse whenever a power disparity exists. Individual circumstances need to be taken into account. It's not fair to make a blanket rule that covers anyone and everyone.
The people that say it's sexual abuse claim that it's impossible for consent to be freely given when a power disparity exists even if both people express their consent to have sex. Those people are like arrogant, authoritarian rulers, trying to force their beliefs on all of us with no regard for individual differences and the complex nature of sexual relationships.
They are incredibly arrogant in their certainty that it's definitely abusive just because a power disparity exists. They demand that everyone blindly accept their opinions without thinking about it, and without allowing for the individual differences between people and the many differences in personality and sexual preferences.”
The argumentation sounds like it could be reasonable until you realize that it is pedophilia in disguise – a subtle attempt to justify sex with children. It was not written by Epstein, but it is plausible that someone like him (or one of his guests) would write or speak in support of power disparities.
Consider the power disparity and the degree of abuse in the following cases:
A wealthy man offering vulnerable children in foster care large sums of money to work in a brothel on his private island.
A schoolteacher fucking children in school (students).
A staff member in a kindergarten fucking the children or “educating” them about sex because children are supposedly “sexual beings from birth”.
A police officer arresting a teenager that was making graffiti and then fucking him/her in exchange for ignoring the vandalism.
A priest fucking children that attend his church, choir, camp, etc.
A 55yo boss/employer fucking a vulnerable 17yo employee, apprentice, or intern that is afraid of losing the job that he/she needs to survive.
A foster parent believing that he/she is entitled to have sex with the children in his/her care because he/she “works so hard” to care for other people's children.
Sadly, some people use their power to fulfill their desire to fuck children, and they abuse children in the process. We should investigate the origin of their pedophilia.
The co-evolution of monogamy and pedophilia
Unfortunately and disturbingly, the evolution of pedophilia and the evolution of monogamy are linked.
