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Have you done any work to attempt to gradually age up your attraction?
Do you seek out age appropriate relationships and engage in age-play to partially satisfy attractions, or do you just not date at all?
I did at earlier stages, but yeah, it doesn't really work, especially since my attraction to girls which is still my main already goes well into my comfortable adult range, so essentially my only way is to convince myself I'm not interested in younger girls (which is, well, not really working; I can tell myself "yay it works"...until I meet a younger child again)
I do seek relationships with peers of my own age, but I don't enjoy ageplay; it just doesn't bring up much the same feelings, and I doubt I can experience this attraction to adults, no matter how much trickery is involved. Some, though, do find some relief in that. There is no single opinion on ageplay among pedophiles.
Hi! I'm not OP, but I am also a pedophile.
What you're describing is called SOCE "Sexual Orientation Change Efforts" AKA conversion therapy. It doesn't work for gay people to try to gradually change the gender of the people they're attracted to, and it doesn't work for us to try to age up the people we're attracted to.
Personally, I've tried conversion therapy for my being gay (three months at down in the the American South). That went about as well as you'd expect. Maybe a little better in that I'm not horribly mentally and emotionally scarred, I suppose.
For myself, I do seek out other adults, but I do not engage in age-play. It's not something I need to do to make sex work for me. I don't even fantasize about children or anything, I just focus on what I'm doing and what my body is feeling and enjoy sex with my partner.
I'm also not an exclusive pedophile. Exclusive pedophiles have a more difficult time with things, though I know of a few that ended up dating other exclusive pedophiles and they make things work with ageplay and mutual fantasy. There are other exclusives that don't date at all. It can be very lonely being a pedophile.
As far as I know, ageplay usually isn't a pedophile activity. You are atracted to an adult, but you and/or your partner (sexual or a relationship) act childish during sex or just as an independant activity.