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all entries: jul 2014 to jan 2025


			21 January 2025 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?

			14 November 2024 a note on the costs of self-hatred leonard johnston Empathy is important, especially for those who are most hated - even by me.

			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.

			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.

			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?

			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?

			15 July 2020 thread: risk or risk factor? bly rede Does the distinction matter? Yes, so much that it could be the difference between child abuse and no crime.

			2 July 2020 thread: window shoppers and thieves bly rede People say that all we want to do is rape children. But this doesn't describe us well.

			12 April 2020 thread: the narrative of situational offenders bly rede Are sexual offenders against children really divided neatly into 'pedophilic' and 'situational'?

			4 January 2020 thread: are prevention programmes effective? bly rede Many professional efforts to support us are based on the idea of preventing crimes. Do they actually work?

			28 August 2019 teen-teen attraction as opportunistic ethan edwards Suppose we start with the assumption that a person's fundamental sexual attraction is unchanging.

			4 May 2019 thread: pedo-hunters bly rede Vigilantes are much feared and hated by non-offending pedophiles as well as by offenders. Why?

			27 October 2018 thread: how does a pedophile not become an abuser? bly rede Pedophiles have different starting points and end with differing beliefs and behaviours. What do we know about why?

			8 October 2018 the tragedy of child sex dolls and artificial cp brett daywalker No children have been harmed, and there is no evidence that the people viewing such media have or will harm children, but they have been made criminals anyway.

			7 September 2018 why pro-contact pedophile arguments are bullshit (by a pedophile) bly rede Don't be suckered by those who say it's OK to act on it or those that claim it's inevitable you will.

			30 July 2018 interview with jay global prevention project On this episode, Jay, shares his story of being addicted to child porn as a teen and getting arrested in his adulthood. He talks about what he learned as a result of being in sex offender treatment and the importance of victim empathy and humanizing others to prevent future harm.

			9 April 2018 sex offender, anti-contact pedophile aydne I kinda worked myself into this mindframe where, well if I'm gonna be a monster anyway... and that kinda set the backdrop for what ended up happening.

			6 March 2017 the iq deficit of pedo abusers may not transfer to the celibate ethan edwards Research on pedophiles has suggested that we differ from ordinary peoplein a variety of non-flattering ways . The implications of being short or left-handed are obvious and not very serious for a person's self-concept. But IQ is more central to a person's self-worth, and the claimed deficit bothers...

			2 March 2016 child sex abuse — recorded or not ethan edwards We care a lot more about what we see than what we don't.

			5 October 2015 the non-offending pedophile ender wiggin Too many people still refuse to acknowledge the difference between pedophile and child molester. They judge people for feelings they didn't choose.

			9 August 2014 those other pedophiles ethan edwards This blog is called "Celibate Pedophiles". The core message is that many pedophiles never engage in any illegal activity. But then there are the other pedophiles, the ones who are not celibate.

			15 July 2014 keeping children safe ethan edwards I'm sure many in society would be very uncomfortable that I continue to engage with people who seem at risk of offending.

21 January 2025

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?

14 November 2024

a note on the costs of self-hatred
leonard johnston

Empathy is important, especially for those who are most hated - even by me.

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.

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.

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?

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?

15 July 2020

thread: risk or risk factor?
bly rede

Does the distinction matter? Yes, so much that it could be the difference between child abuse and no crime.

2 July 2020

thread: window shoppers and thieves
bly rede

People say that all we want to do is rape children. But this doesn't describe us well.

12 April 2020

thread: the narrative of situational offenders
bly rede

Are sexual offenders against children really divided neatly into 'pedophilic' and 'situational'?

4 January 2020

thread: are prevention programmes effective?
bly rede

Many professional efforts to support us are based on the idea of preventing crimes. Do they actually work?

28 August 2019

teen-teen attraction as opportunistic
ethan edwards

Suppose we start with the assumption that a person's fundamental sexual attraction is unchanging.

4 May 2019

thread: pedo-hunters
bly rede

Vigilantes are much feared and hated by non-offending pedophiles as well as by offenders. Why?

27 October 2018

thread: how does a pedophile not become an abuser?
bly rede

Pedophiles have different starting points and end with differing beliefs and behaviours. What do we know about why?

8 October 2018

the tragedy of child sex dolls and artificial cp
brett daywalker

No children have been harmed, and there is no evidence that the people viewing such media have or will harm children, but they have been made criminals anyway.

7 September 2018

why pro-contact pedophile arguments are bullshit (by a pedophile)
bly rede

Don't be suckered by those who say it's OK to act on it or those that claim it's inevitable you will.

30 July 2018

interview with jay
global prevention project

On this episode, Jay, shares his story of being addicted to child porn as a teen and getting arrested in his adulthood. He talks about what he learned as a result of being in sex offender treatment and the importance of victim empathy and humanizing others to prevent future harm.

9 April 2018

sex offender, anti-contact pedophile
aydne

I kinda worked myself into this mindframe where, well if I'm gonna be a monster anyway... and that kinda set the backdrop for what ended up happening.

6 March 2017

the iq deficit of pedo abusers may not transfer to the celibate
ethan edwards

Research on pedophiles has suggested that we differ from ordinary peoplein a variety of non-flattering ways . The implications of being short or left-handed are obvious and not very serious for a person's self-concept. But IQ is more central to a person's self-worth, and the claimed deficit bothers...

2 March 2016

child sex abuse — recorded or not
ethan edwards

We care a lot more about what we see than what we don't.

5 October 2015

the non-offending pedophile
ender wiggin

Too many people still refuse to acknowledge the difference between pedophile and child molester. They judge people for feelings they didn't choose.

9 August 2014

those other pedophiles
ethan edwards

This blog is called "Celibate Pedophiles". The core message is that many pedophiles never engage in any illegal activity. But then there are the other pedophiles, the ones who are not celibate.

15 July 2014

keeping children safe
ethan edwards

I'm sure many in society would be very uncomfortable that I continue to engage with people who seem at risk of offending.