The Virtuous Pedophiles support group naturally has many young men in it, some of them fairly nerdy.

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The Virtuous Pedophiles support group naturally has many young men in it, some of them fairly nerdy.Someone suggested that being a virtuous pedophile is like being required to play the game of life on "expert level" or in "expert mode".

I like it. It recognizes the challenges, but implies they can be overcome, and doesn't focus on unhappiness.

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privilege is not a helpful framework

what we tried to say on bluesky and twitter

married to a map

ethan edwards

Perhaps some of my readers like the concept of 'privilege', as heard notably in 'white privilege' and 'male privilege'. In the interest of a productive dialog, let me start with some things I do believe.

bly

VirPed's accounts have been banned (twice) from Twitter and once from BlueSky. We had one main thing to say...

bruce and gina

As soon as she couldn't handle it, I was like, no, I'm done. Uh, this won't work, nice try, I'm gonna pull out, and I left.

Perhaps some of my readers like the concept of 'privilege', as heard notably in 'white privilege' and 'male privilege'. In the interest of a productive dialog, let me start with some things I do believe.

VirPed's accounts have been banned (twice) from Twitter and once from BlueSky. We had one main thing to say...

As soon as she couldn't handle it, I was like, no, I'm done. Uh, this won't work, nice try, I'm gonna pull out, and I left.