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review: manticore
rakkaus keksit Disgraced director's film brings an elevated aesthetic to a contemporary tragedy of dark desires, but does it get the situation right? |
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| |  | | 24 December 2024
a tale of two therapists
sammy jenkis I was desperate to talk about this with someone. Could I risk it a second time? |
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| |  | | 23 December 2024
review: no dogs allowed
py A new film portrays the life of a teenager who discovers he is sexually attracted to children and how he tries to cope. |
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| |  | | 10 December 2024
pedophiles who don't excuse child sexual abuse
bly rede What is this website? A place where you can hear a voice that is rarely allowed to speak. But people who love free speech do not love ours. |
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| |  | | 7 December 2024
at peace with my pedophilia
ethan edwards Since I sought with passion the sort of partner that society approved of, there was little impetus to look at whether I had any other attractions. |
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| |  | | 23 November 2024
poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalism
brandon goletzski i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head |
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| |  | | 14 November 2024
a note on the costs of self-hatred
leonard johnston Empathy is important, especially for those who are most hated - including by me. |
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| | | | 16 June 2024
an obituary for a gay man
leonard johnston I don't think of myself as gay. Their vibrant culture is not mine. And yet, their stories are my stories. |
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| | | | 17 December 2023
reflections, learnings, and critiques on an amazing pedophilia study
leonard johnston Aella's survey found thousands of people with a sexual interest in kids. How should we interpret this? |
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| | | | 19 April 2023
in which leonard processes his feelings
leonard johnston 2 of 4: I was skeptical about the claims of those saying they'd been "silenced". And then it happened to me.
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| |  | | 11 April 2023
fantasies of adult-child sex disgust even the sex-positive public
ethan edwards What are the limits pedophiles should self-impose on their sexual fantasies? |
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| |  | | 11 April 2023
how can you want to keep an attraction you can never act on?
ethan edwards Given that we are for moral reasons totally unable to express our sexuality with children, our right to private sexual fantasy would seem imore important. |
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| | | | 25 December 2022
happy holidays!
leonard johnston From the bottom of my heart, Happy Holidays! |
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| |  | | 23 August 2022
professionals might be won over even if public is not
ethan edwards My hope for changing public opinion is very low. But how can things get better? |
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| |  | | 30 June 2022
taxonomy of pedophiles and public
ethan edwards After 10 years of Virtuous Pedophiles, what has it revealed about different attitudes toward pedophilia? |
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| | | | 8 May 2022
star trek, me, and pedophilia
leonard johnston You can learn a lot about me from Star Trek. It's shaped my perception of myself and my pedophilia. |
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| |  | | 2 April 2022
one group of sympathetic pedophiles might be enough?
ethan edwards Improving our situation requires changing minds of a range of non-pedophiles. |
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| |  | | 18 January 2022
the chasm between celibate pedophiles and acceptance
ethan edwards This may be a bleak picture, but we need to understand the reality gap we face. |
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| | | | 26 November 2021
let's talk about disgust
leonard johnston Should we be disgusted by artificial CP or other ways pedophiles like me find sexual satisfaction? |
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| |  | | 18 October 2021
a short bright elucidation
bly rede A review of A Long Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity by Allyn Walker |
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| |  | | 9 September 2021
reviews: safe from harm and let's talk: child sexual abuse
bly rede A BBC radio drama and an online documentary from Channel 4 both open up the topic of non-offending pedophilia |
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| | | | 2 August 2021
personal reflections on difficult issues
leonard johnston 6 of 6: My personal reflections on what I learned in this series. |
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| | | | 20 June 2021
the mysteries of happiness, and how i found it as a pedophile
leonard johnston I've never seen a self-help article aimed at pedophiles, so maybe it's time for one. |
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| |  | | 7 June 2021
counting the distressed cp victims
ethan edwards How do we come up with measured public policy on this? |
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| |  | | 29 May 2021
anti-pedophile restrictions — attitudes or technology?
ethan edwards The public has also become less and less tolerant of pedophilia since 2012. Laws reflect this. |
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| |  | | 7 May 2021
accepting law-abiding pedophiles: five stages of grief
ethan edwards The process that a typical non-pedophile goes through when coming to accept realistic and tolerant ideas about pedophiles. |
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| | | | 27 April 2021
interview - the journey of leaving child pornography
leonard johnston 5 of 6: Anywhere that CP is discussed, no one talks about how they stopped viewing it. Now someone has. |
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| |  | | 23 April 2021
childlike self-concepts, pt. 1: an anecdotal introduction
bly rede Academics have begun to study autopedophilia, with a focus on sexual arousal from the idea of being childlike. But there's a much broader phenomenon going on here, and I'm right in the middle of it. |
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| |  | | 6 April 2021
past the dark facts
bly rede A review of Sheila van den Heuvel-Collins’ Past the Dark Field |
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| |  | | 24 March 2021
taking stock of progress by anti-legalization pedophiles
ethan edwards In June of 2012, nearly 9 years ago, Nick Devin and I launched the website Virtuous Pedophiles. We got some interest from media and progressive scientists who study pedophilia. The interest has lessened along with the novelty, but it has not disappeared. They perceived us as something new. We were pedophiles... |
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| |  | | 13 March 2021
the pluses of denial of pedophilia
ethan edwards Virtuous Pedophiles... Surely our message is: Come forward! Don't be ashamed of who you are! Let the hidden pedophiles know there are others like them so they too can come forward! |
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| | | | 11 February 2021
how do you end up viewing cp, anyway?
leonard johnston 4 of 6: I received a message from a man arrested for viewing CP. I asked him to tell me about it. |
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13 December 2020
twitter's take on pedophiles is complicated (and i think wrong)
leonard johnston
Twitter recently prohibited referring to pedophilia as an orientation or identity. Could this actually harm kids?
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| | | | 8 November 2020
images and offending: what do the data tell us?
leonard johnston 3 of 6: Does viewing CP encourage child abuse? What about artificial CP, like images, dolls, stories? |
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| | | | 30 September 2020
is artificial child pornography a good outlet?
leonard johnston 2 of 6: Is artificial CP moral? Might it lead to more harm? |
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| |  | | 24 September 2020
becoming comfortable with my attractions
py A MAP's Journey from Anguish to Acceptance |
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| | | | 3 September 2020
private sexual thoughts do not violate a child's rights
ethan edwards Just about everyone agrees that the making of CP is a terrible thing and rightly classified as a serious crime. |
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