My reply to http://absolutezerounited.blogspot.com/2006/06/turning-back-perverts.html
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You know, I studied pedophilia for almost 8 years online, and just have to say I weigh in on scathing antipedophle sites such as these.

As a rape victim myself as a "child", (14 to be exact.. something that took me into my 30s to even admit happened to me), I am appaled at the audacity that people have, claiming to be speaking for "victims", all the while making it sound like some girl being "molested" by a man who is now considered the avatar of Satan, while so many people have been viciously and savagely sodomized and raped by somebody just a few years older than they are, are just almost completely ignored because it can't be connected to the "pedophile boogyman".

So I would say, is this entire antipedophilia movement a movement about people having thier percieved morals offended, or about the wellbeing and happiness of children? If it is about the children, shouldn't it be worth it, to minimize damaging effects of any kind, to create a balance for them?

From the seething hate I see on sites such as these, I would say its the former, not the latter. And if it is all a lashout by personal fears and offenses to sensibilities, then the entire movement is about nothing other than selfishness, and a wanting to control something over which one wishes they had in thier purview.

If anybody here really, truly cared about children, then consider this. Instead of trying to control thier sex lives, start a movement for better education.. Children should learn about the sexual functions of thier bodies before they get to an age where it awakens, and they become the sexual beings you fear. They should know everything, including the right to say no OR yes. Children aren't stupid, and will always reject incongruities, "just say no" will always lead to more of them saying "yes".

Educate them about protection, rape, diseases, everything associated with sexual activity so they don't grow up learning lies on the street.

Forget about pedophilia and sex offenders lists until we do what will help them the most-- educate them. We now have a culture of keeping our kids stupid, calling it "innocence" and freaking out when they "lose" it, even when they want to.

Show the world this isn't all just self-serving, self-absorbed selfishness and educate kids, allow them to have the knowledge, so they can make thier own mistakes and learn from them. Instead of belittling them by taking thier lives from thier hands and placing blame of thier errors on others, doing nothing but creating a next generation where children grow into adulthood thinking that everything that they do can be blamed on everybody else.

Education is the great equalizer. It can help protect children from the true predators. Sure there are a lot of "pedophiles" out there that might be seeking to do harm. But there are those that also do truly care, and for them its not all about sex, but all about caring and love. And, again, isn't that also your milieu?

Well, this is already a lot longer than I thought it would be, so I will end that thought now. Good day.