I was thinking more in the lines of 'he gave children sexuality from the perspective of the general populace'. ie. normal people began to think that children were sexual creatures.
i know that in the Victorian era, children were thought to be asexual creatures. now everybody thinks of children as sexual; was it because of Freud? i don't read much psychology stuff, but i think he started those ideas in the psychology world and it became widespread.
when more of the populace is exposed to the idea of children as sexual, then more people will be pedophiles. this does relate to other sexual fetishes. i don't think the average furry or gay would have even thought about becoming that if there weren't already a group ready to spread those ideas.
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H. Ellis may have invented the term pedophilia but did he think of children as sexual? Him calling it an abnormality does not count because it is still called that.