It's important for society to recognize that there is a vast difference between pedophilia as a sexual orientation and child sexual abuse. Sorry to say, you guys are not helping to delineate that distinction. You might be paying lip service to it, but your anonymity and your goals renders it nonsensical in most people's eyes.

Whereas if someone came out, what would change?

People could believe "Outed Activist" really is a good guy who really will never harm children, and still continue to believe the other 99% of pedos still are just rapists.

(Same as even at the height of discrimination, everyone knew one good gay, one good Black, one intelligent woman...)

(And indeed, this is one of the most common criticisms raised at Ethan, which he has no intention to deal with)

(And of course, I don't see how "showing society that we are not all out to get into their kids' panties" requires the non-contact part, but there is no need to question the assumption to point to my main issue)