THE IDIOT GUIDE TO LOVE presents an alternative understanding to what is commonly called love, and which is in the author's view an inextricable unity of form and substance, of emotion and attraction, and as a consequence of emotional attraction and sexual attraction. The author's special regard is upon sexual paraphilias and he cognitively evaluates uncommon love options, such as pedophilia, showing that they are not as uncommon as one may think and that the official rhetoric regarding adult-child sexual relations is by and large flawed, distorted, irrational, and a direct outflow of consumerist ideology. This book is a selfhelp guide and not an academic treatise, and it addresses the reader in person, and directly, for the goal of the guide is to help people individually to live their love and desire in a healthy and guilt-free manner that brings blessings to themselves and their mates. Genuine morality knows to make the distinction between fantasy and real-life action, and thus can act out rape within the safe haven of fantasy. What happens, however, in patriarchal and moralistic culture is that because the imaginary realm is precluded by compulsive morality, the taboo is acted out in situations that are put on stage as exceptional, thus justifying derivations from the norm, such as wars and civil wars, and the eternal massacres of ethnic and tribal minorities, which are thus raped in all possible ways for safeguarding and upholding the collective psychosis within the allegedly righteous large civilizations. The guide shows that what we choose for ourselves, as our individual life paradigm, has immediate repercussions upon the social arena, and that we are thus responsible for our laws and social policies, if we agree with them or not. DISCLAIMER __________ The present book considers erotic love options of adults for children from the perspective of the imaginal realm, and under a psychoanalytic point of view. The author does in no way attempt to normalize or legalize pedophilia, nor does he in any way encourage readers to engage in any kind of sexual relations with children. Much to the contrary, the author argues that men and women with pedoerotic desires should keep all relations with children platonic, that is, non-sexual, in order to comply with criminal law and also for the safety of their love children. The author expressly warns readers that sexual relations with children are considered as crime in most national jurisdictions around the world, with heavy penalties and prison fines as a consequence While the author looks at the subject from different angles and further inquires into possible changes of social policy for a future lawmaker, he in no way belittles existing child protection laws, nor does he in any way question the validity and enforcement of those laws. The author also emphasizes that he is against any kind of pedophile sociopolitical activism, considering it as the wrong cause, nor does he have any ties with organized pedophilia. Back in 1998, organized American pedophiles have attacked the author and impersonated him as a police spy and 'torture psychiatrist' on their forums, which put an end to his free email-based coaching work for this persecuted minority. Since then, it seems the author is blacklisted in pedophile circles, a fact he does not implore, as it shows him he is on the right track. The author hereby disclaims any responsibility if immature persons reading this book are misconstruing the message and are misguided to a point to consider the book as a 'manual' or 'road map' for learning to get sexual access to children. The very contrary is true. The book is not written for pedophiles nor child abusers, but for mature adults who want to handle their emotional and randomly sexual fantasies involving children so that they are able to avoid acting out, thereby avoiding doing harm to children.