Part 2 of:
How hard can it be to be friendly?
A look at socially responsible NOMAPs (non-offending minor-attracted people), science, and malevolence in the modern age.
By Bernie Najarian
continued from https://justpaste.it/5e8z6
Donald Trump and his Russian bot supporters (I don’t imply that Trump was responsible for the bots) had by this time had a profound effect on internet discourse with their use of what analysts began to call the ‘firehose of falsehood technique.’ It is described as ‘what happens when a propagandist bombards people with more lies than they can possibly keep up with.’ https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1035596006811992064. The combination of the Sun’s spinning of non-offenders as scheming lurers, and Cheong’s pseudo-proof that pedophiles who said they were non-offenders were actually offenders, was clearly causing a severe signal flicker in any information that the NOMAPs and the psychology professionals could put out.
Plenty of people were seeing the powerful effect of firehosing in various realms of online discussion, and they were inspired to try out the same political spew techniques themselves.
In early 2018, three entirely new fire hydrants of high-volume lies came onstream and aimed their discharge at the NOMAPs. I’ll take ’em one by one: nomadscammers, Bears and Dragons.
The first of them was a single tweeter going by the name of @nomadscammers, who claimed, early on in January, 2018, that he was a psychological operations (psy-ops) reservist for the U.S. military. Later on, in the course of producing high volumes of falsehoods against individual NOMAPs and researchers, as well as pedophiles in general and anyone entertaining the possibility of a lawful MAP, he represented himself as a Jewish-American CEO of an internet tracer firm, a Bolivian mining engineer, a black 17-year-old high school student, and a multi-person think-tank. Throughout the whole episode, however, he mostly used U.S. psy-ops insignia in his profile. He regularly deleted his prior content in order to change his story, and denounced all records of his prior statements as fake. (Detailed story of his initial months: https://justpaste.it/1io0f).
In his incessant stream of inventions, Enderphile not only became Justin Coulombe, but also a woman-hater (because he sometimes retorted back to trolling from women), a child porn trafficker and, when convenient for the lie-stream, a conspiracy account consisting of multiple people. Researchers suffered similar fates; James Cantor, for example, was represented as a marginal scientist working in a ‘second world’ country (Canada); even top sexual offences expert Michael Seto was dismissed as an insignificant mediocrity. Nomadscammers occasionally claimed that he, himself, did more authoritative studies than any of the researchers — but was he unable to produce anything to back up these statements.
Michael Seto quoted in Toronto Star, Dec. 22, 2013. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/12/22/is_pedophilia_a_sexual_orientation.html
Bear emoji Jesus speaks suicide gospel
Fiction about science, rather than science-fiction
Fictional qualifications trump real ones in firehose country
The fictional reviews are in
Successful Prevention Project Dunkelfeld program discredited with fake news
Prof. Cantor’s LGBT status occasioned homophobic remarks in the midst of other gratuitous persiflage
To quote Carlos Maza from his Vox video about the firehosing technique (
), “(Expert interviewee) Masha F*cking Gessen argues that firehosing isn’t about persuasion — it’s about power. When Putin says ‘there are no troops in Crimea,’ or when Trump says he never mocked a disabled reporter (video shows him doing so), they’re not just lying. They’re asserting that they are not constrained by reality — that everything, even things that are totally obvious to us, can be challenged… (Two features) of firehosing — the shamelessness, the inconsistency — they’re kind of the point.” (Gessen rejoins:) “Every lie makes the obviousness of the lie part of the power play.”
The @Nomadscammer lie-o-rama power play also consisted in writing emails to misinform any websites that were publishing NOMAP information that they were hosting sex offenders who were committing brazen crimes behind the façade of their non-offenderdom. He got as many of his readers as possible to join in these campaigns. Enderphile had inadvertently raised his target status by starting a very tightly controlled messenger network on the gamer network discord.com. It allowed NOMAPs and people who wanted to talk to NOMAPs to chat in real time, and to support each other in any stress felt from the vicissitudes of ethical celibacy. All discourse was rigorously monitored in real-time to ensure that no would-be abusers or erotica exchangers could infiltrate the system. Photos of children were forbidden except for a few uncontroversial items like posters for movies that were a topic of discussion. Nomadscammers tweeted incessantly that child porn exchange and much other criminality was taking place on the server and that he had the proof and had given it to police. No actual evidence, naturally, was ever divulged on social media. After four months of the firehosing, the exchange server that had served 400 members was shut down summarily by Discord in June, 2018. Discord’s stated explanation was that “Discord is not a medical or psychological support platform for users who sexualize minors.”
Firehosing some stereotypes into the Discord servers, plus fictional witnesses
Taking credit for lobbying Discord. The top tweet about the “room code” and “account code” is technical gaslighting; the Securityconcern account-holder, Kamil Beylant, did not participate in the Discord system.
The accusation “sexualize minors” was familiar. It had long been received by the NOMAPs from the type of hostile tweeters, mentioned earlier, who said that NOMAPs who felt attraction to children were were no better than sex offenders who actually committed crimes. The chance happening of a minor-attracted sexual orientation was misrepresented as a deliberate, immoral decision to impose a sexual market value on the young. It seemed very likely that Discord had received complaints bearing this type of wording.
Actually, in my personal view, this piece of spin illuminates a pertinent surprise fact of current sexual politics in general, something that needs to be mentioned before the tone of the online conversation with NOMAPs can be understood. When the majority of the general public surprised me completely in 1995–2010 by rapidly turning around on the LGBT question and deciding to drop the stigma and accept gays, I had had the naïve impression that people had accepted the fundamental premise that sexual orientation was a given, a morally neutral biological chance factor, as sung in the song lyrics of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way.’ In social media, we can now see that there are still vast numbers of heterosexuals — though perhaps just a minority — who embrace the belief that their sexual orientation is a superior moral choice they have made — one that places them instantly on a plane of virtue that deviants can never attain. This ego-bootstrapping subgroup has simply decided to be magnanimous about gays and lesbians. Their own superiority doesn’t need to be raised in that context. But when the topic of people attracted to children arises, the MAPs who experience this attraction can immediately be portrayed as awful degenerates who have made a horrendously vicious moral choice. They must then be duly shamed by the gleaming heterosexuals who have had the enlightened morality to choose against such values. In this view, then, the MAPs are deliberately sexualizing children, and there is no truth to the LGBT rumor that orientation and gender may not be a deliberate choice. Unsavory people need not be supported by public amenities like chat networks, even if the people say the networks could be used for peer support to prevent child abuse. If the MAPs had wanted to prevent child abuse, they could have chosen to ‘sexualize’ adults instead of children. Case closed. Or, as the trolls say, “end of.”
End of scientific rationality, actually, as it crashes into a wall of impenetrable ego. The demise of the Discord networks was written up in an article by Katie Herzog in TheStranger.com (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/20/29453977/online-support-groups-can-keep-pedophiles-from-offending-but-they-keep-getting-shut-down). An interview with Enderphile in the article highlights the loss of an opportunity to support an ongoing culture based on strict no-abuse commitment among hundreds, potentially thousands, of MAPs.
Nomadscammers attracted a group of people who were only too eager to help roll out his hose of defamatory illusions. Many came from the social media circle of a would-be comedian named Owen Benjamin (https://twitter.com/ASM_AntiSocial/status/1034898046713319426), who had made himself the nucleus of a crowd of Trump-loving minority taunters who called themselves the UnBearAbles, ‘Bears’ for short. They were an anomalous mix of gun-toting backwoods males and young white-collar professional females, some of the latter also connected to the countryside. Benjamin, who liked to issue jokes about topics like Asian male penis size and black intelligence, managed to have himself perma-banned from Twitter after extended insistence on his right to say that a person described by a six-letter n-word had stolen his bicycle. His final taunts sent to high school gun control advocate David Hogg, accusing him of having no pubic hair, may also have led to a reckoning.
Benjamin’s fan club, in any case, remained intact after his exit. They had decided that their collective prime project would be to harass NOMAPs and any remnant Heart Progress trolls left on Twitter. They largely took direction from Nomadscammers and Bears member Ashley L. Higginbotham, working under the Twitter name BasedTxPatriot (the first of many Twitter account names). Higginbotham was a particularly fanatical 33-year-old farm wife from Chico, Texas who also worked as a phlebotomist in a medical clinic an hour's commute from the farm. Her agricultural husband, Twitter-named BasedTexan, tended to stick to regular MAGA tweeting and leave the pedo-baiting to the spouse.
The Bears found themselves productively occupied in insisting that Enderphile and other non-offender NOMAPs must be seen as finger-twining, deceptive offenders lurking behind a pretense of legality. They also gleefully enjoyed making threats, calling people schoolyard names (NOMAP spokesperson Todd Nickerson, for example, was dubbed ‘ReTodd’ by Higginbotham) and publicizing the kaleidoscopic falsehoods emanating from the Nomadscammers account. Their tendency towards two major no-nos of the new polite Twitter — making threats of violence and encouraging people to kill themselves — eventually got many of their initial accounts suspended or locked, and they became somewhat cagier in their later incarnations. They made, however, a very tight mass-reporting brigade and managed to cause account trouble for a few NOMAPs who issued hot words in response to trolling.
Lawyer Michael P. Couglin of Lombard, IL, as ‘Bear,’ trying to satirize sexual orientation while delivering threats of violence
Bear emoji Jesus speaks suicide gospel
In the meantime, the Anonymous movement, diversifying from the political left to the right to accommodate the Trump era, had picked up an increasingly strong wing of proponents of ‘satanic elite pedophilia’ conspiracy theories, already integrated into Anonymous via its #OpDeathEaters hashtag (history here: https://justpaste.it/58jer). A middle-aged Italian Anon called Roberto Raimondo, who claimed some hacking powers — other Anons derided this as false — appeared as part of an unsuccessful campaign to knock the Virtuous Pedophiles website, virped.org, off the air. ‘Anon Roy,’ as he was then known, brought along a much younger online girlfriend, a flamboyantly fanatical conspiracy-fundamentalist from Moscow, Idaho, called Danielle Hutton. Hutton, who called herself Aisha, was an online harasser’s dream. A constitutively infuriated hyperaggressive born to lash at everything in her environment, she soon broke up with Roy, but found a new mission in life in pitching in with the other groups engaged in harassment of the NOMAPs.
The Bears’ schoolyard taunting style was too low-key for Hutton. She styled herself a ‘dragon’ and equipped nearly every outgoing tweet with an aggressive moving image of a fierce mythical beast trying to attack the reader. She compared herself to the dragons of the Book of Revelations and attempted to summon archangels to empower her tweets against the pedophiles. Under the rubric ‘dragons vs. pedos,’ she soon amassed a false-reporting cabal that was several hundred strong. A small number of NOMAP accounts, especially newcomers, probably fell to her efforts, and she also enlisted her troops enthusiastically in lobbying Medium.com, the site hosting the Enderphile blog and several other NOMAPs, with the notion that sex offenders were taking advantage of their facilities.
Danielle Hutton as ‘DragonsVsPedos’ summoning hellfire on, among other things, the Clintons
Medium had been ignoring such blandishments for years, but this time, with Nomadscammers pretending to be an intelligence authority and the Bears and Dragons pretending to represent the outraged citizens of Trumpland, the website buckled. On Aug. 20, they lowered the boom with “Our rules prohibit material which may potentially promote or increase the risk of exploitation of minors.” The blogs of Enderphile and many others were suspended and became invisible. The objections and in-person interventions of a group of internet and anti-abuse professionals called Prostasia, Inc., who joined psychological researchers in supporting the NOMAP efforts, were of no immediate avail, but were summarized in a cogent article (https://prost.asia/blog/censoring-speech-child-protection/).
Explicit statement by campaigner Michelle Jurman ('JennyJayBear') that NOMAPs would be misrepresented as child groomers in lobbying of Medium.com
It was pure Dragon/Bear/Nomadscammers logic that material dedicated to lowering the risk of exploitation of minors could be taken as the opposite, if the authors stated they were pedophiles. The psychological researchers and other experts working with the NOMAPs also seemed to have less commercial credibility than this Big Lie. In realpolitik, clearly, only the troll group was likely to scream up an inconvenient scandal that would interfere with Medium’s already troubled revenue stream. Twitter had lived down the efforts of Ben Lazarus and the Sun to foment such a fear-frenzy, but not every social media CEO has the chutzpah of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. His former associate Evan Williams, founder of Medium, is evidently a more shiftable political weathervane.
Before the Medium blogs were canned, a third nearly-stable Enderphile Twitter account had come and gone. Ironically, that account’s fatal moment probably came from a burst of temper issued against yet another source of irritation: a seemingly low-comprehension MAP who had absurdly proclaimed himself the only truly non-offending ‘King of the MAPs,’ while donning Anonymous iconography and falsely accused Enderphile of tolerating sex-offender behaviors (see ‘Wert’ in https://justpaste.it/1io0f). This Quisling clown act coming from inside the NOMAP community must have been too great a frustration to resist taking a potshot at. Dragons were there to mass-report the offense with glee.
Danielle Hutton in her ‘Dragon Flame’ account explaining her cosmology to a Bear chat group
All the hallucinatory attempts that have been made in 2016–2018 to overmaster reality haven’t reduced the NOMAP friendliness effort to complete rubble — though it certainly shows some cracks. A few of the blogs suspended from Medium have been moved to other hosts, most notably Wordpress. At the time of this writing, the Enderphile blog remains inaccessible. Several of my own articles pasted for back-up into the pastebin.com website by NOMAP advocate Kamil Beylant were abruptly deleted, even though they had been safe and sound for years, sometimes collecting thousands of reads. Beylant succeeded in moving them along with his own articles over to the classier justpaste.it site, which allows integration of images. An attempt by Nomadscammers and his trolls to have Twitter classify justpaste.it posts as dangerous, by falsely reporting malware content, succeeded for two days, but then was rolled back by the website after it checked the posts.
Though NOMAP voices may be fewer, several professional voices, including Prostasia Inc., the Prevention Project, and Project Snowball/@autonomycounsel have emerged as strong supporters of the NOMAP efforts on social media.
The blinding fibnado emanating from the Nomadscammers account appeared to cease after an Aug. 4 incident where the account’s followers shocked the owner by stalking and bedeviling the grown-up daughter of a likeable non-MAP tweeter, Rusty Warner, who had stated his support of NOMAPs abuse prevention.
The overall impression I have of this struggle, which pits reasonable explanation against every conceivable form of political frenzy and dirty trick, is that it ultimately boils down to a reaction against science. Once you have read some hundreds of tweets interlinking fundamentalist ideas like Satan, archangels, and witchcraft rituals with child abuse, you will begin, I think, to appreciate that sexuality is in some way connected with an ongoing strain of medieval thought in our culture. It’s a motif that even atheists now find ways to adopt enthusiastically.
Danielle Hutton in ‘MotherofDragons’ account echoing summoning of biblical angels against pedophiles
Danielle Hutton outrage-panicking about ‘Child Sexual Exploitation class’ in public school, and, above, self-described atheist contact endorsing Satan-dread and politics against Luciferian (‘loser-fearian’) demons
My take on it is this: the number one problem people have, as social beings, is that there is no objective way to know who is favorable to their best interests, and who cares nothing about them and might take advantage. This dilemma of identification-half-full vs. half-empty is symbolically solved by insisting on certain uniform behaviors, such as gestures indicating respect, and certain visual cues, such as correct haircuts, beards, hijabs, or whatever, depending on where you are. These things signal commitment to the common interest. In medieval times, religious conformity was intensely important as a symbol of this kind. Anti-Semitism throve by inflaming the fears that the difference embodied in the Jewish religion meant that all of its adherents, on a deep level, were averse to the common-interest. Sexual heterodoxy was considered to be just as sure an indicator of adverse conspiring, or of its solo version, later termed narcissism. This overlap in social heterodoxy symbolism led to some interesting effects, such as the name of a 10th century gnostic religious heresy, the ‘Bulgarian’ heresy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism#In_modern_and_popular_culture) becoming transplanted as the name of a sexual heresy, buggery, by 1550.
Enlightened democrats like the writers of the American Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, even though each religion was essentially sinful in the other’s eyes at the time, but didn’t relax the medieval stranglehold on uniformity of sexuality as a requirement of social good will. Colonialism throughout the European and American sphere then increased the need for uniformity — and for plenty of childbirth — to raise the armies of parallel-marching, morally superior people who had the strength and divine permission to conquer the entire earth, eliminating inferior and deviant-loving cultures where needed. Sexual uniformity was thus hard-wired into our social background as a fundamental cooperation signal that could make up for laxity in other areas, like freedom of religion.
Satan, in Catholic and Protestant fundamentalism, was the symbolic master of social heresy. He, according to the tale, had turned away from God solely for prideful, egotistic reasons, and was now unbendingly programmed to be averse to all good. Thus, any person embodying a sexual or religious heresy, i.e., a mental treachery for which no valid reason could be given, was automatically a replica of Satan, and probably a minion. Since democracy obliged turning a blind eye to religious heresy, Satan was left with sexual deviancy as his conspicuous playground.
Fictional pedophiles sternly warned to stay away from fictional scenarios: the heterodox, having turned away from society, fall into limitless alienation and will surely cook and eat your babies, just as Jews were alleged to to in the fake-news ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’
Homosexuality was a great fright to the holders of this tradition, and still is to some. In my youth, I often heard that the “fundamental building block” of society, the family, was being destroyed by Satan’s gay devotees. The American Empire would surely follow the Roman in dissolving at its social-commitment seams as a result of this devastating deviancy, this insensate turn towards lust rather than the good of humanity. Gays, however, made a singularly effective show of being caring members of society when they pulled out all the stops to care for people affected by AIDS. The neurotic symbolists of social uniformity could no longer exclude them from the commonweal. At around the same time, the first wave of books by women about daddy incest were being published, and the Catholic-priest can of worms had begun to crack open in a few areas. The medieval sexual-moral symbolists, having lost their grip on gays, retrenched to the people they took to be the true heretics of sexual disuniformity: pedophiles. This became their Maginot Line, which they now are determined to defend against any suggestion that any pedophile might in any way be motivated and mobilized to do good for fellow members of society.
“Building block” sociotheology maintaining that perfectly squared and leveled sexuality is essential to all society and is threatened by homosexuality — from 2014
Science, in the form of researchers like James Cantor, Michael Seto, Klaus Beier, Belinda Winder, and Ross Bartels (https://medium.com/@jmalcolm/experts-police-and-vigilantes-face-off-over-pedophiles-on-twitter-96307e9476f8) has jabbed a needle into this relict superstition by dealing with pedophiles as responsive people, and by publishing articles affirming that non-offenders exist. Allowing these facts to emerge is a dire threat to the last symbolic pillar that neurotic social uniformists can cling to, even as they swirl dizzily among immigrants and Muslims and transgenders and people who want to put statues of Baphomet at the courthouse. The desperate accusation of “normalizing pedophilia” is a scream of terror not about children being abused, but about social integrity turning to dust.
Putting science in its Victorian place
Anonymous movement threat to James Cantor
The amount of abuse leveled at scientists and clinicians in the NOMAP sphere has been significant — not home-burningly extravagant, so far, but at least rhetorically belligerent. Researchers are regularly denounced as pedophile apologists or as pedophiles. Far-right news site the Daily Caller included an abuse prevention and sex offender treatment clinic, the Prevention Project, in a recent smear using the troll-designed ‘pedophile flag’ to suggest that pedophiles were trying to use sympathy stories to attach to the LGBT movement and thus legalize adult-child sex. Candice Christiansen, the clinic’s founder, was outraged to be characterized, in the ensuing storm of hate tweets, as a supporter of child abuse (https://twitter.com/Preventionintvn/status/1034440517495517185). As a person who was herself abused as a child, she is anything but. Her legal threats against some of the hatemongers sent the frenzy flock flying to look for more vulnerable targets.
On May 5, 2018, Mirjam Heine, a German medical student working with the abuse prevention clinic of Klaus Beier’s German Prevention Project Dunkelfeld, gave a Tedx talk (an independent talk in an academic gathering sanctioned by Ted Talks) where she described a pedophile named Jonas who had gone to the Project for support in his desire never to abuse children. She described Jonas sympathetically, and noted that while clinical practice could give plenty of affirmation to his resolution never to offend, it could not change his unalterable sexual nature.
Let me be very clear here. Abusing children is wrong, without any doubt. But a pedophile who doesn’t abuse children has done nothing wrong …
According to current research, pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation, just like, for example, heterosexuality. No one chooses to be a pedophile, no one can cease being one. The difference between pedophilia and other sexual orientations is that living out this sexual orientation will end in a disaster.
So, let’s think about Jonas again. How can we help him not to cause such a disaster? How can we help him not to live out his sexual urges? How can we prevent child sexual abuse?
In fact, scientific studies indicate that one of the strongest predictors for child sexual abuse committed by pedophiles is social isolation.
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We should accept that pedophiles are people who have not chosen their sexuality, and who, unlike most of us, will never be able to live it out freely, if they want to lead an upright life. We should accept that pedophilia is a sexual preference, a thought, a feeling, and not an act. We should differentiate between child sexual abuse and pedophilia. We shouldn’t increase the suffering of pedophiles by excluding them, by blaming and mocking them. By doing that, we increase their isolation and we increase the chance of child sexual abuse. Only if they make themselves recognizable because they’re not afraid of punishment, of anger and rejection, can we better understand the causes of pedophilia and we can improve their treatment. We can help them accept their sexuality, and help them learn to refrain from acting on their sexual urges which cause harm to children. We can encourage them never to commit child sexual abuse. (Full text here: https://justpaste.it/46q4g).
The title given on the YouTube was not the actual title of the talk.
In response to this humane and responsible approach, Heine received so many hate messages and death threats that she asked that her talk be removed from YouTube for her own safety. Ted Conferences and YouTube received intense barrages of negative publicity and demands that the talk be eliminated. Ted management responded with:
This talk and its removal were recently brought to our attention. After reviewing the talk, we believe it cites research in ways that are open to serious misinterpretation. This led some viewers to interpret the talk as an argument in favor of an illegal and harmful practice.
Heine, however, had explicitly stated “Let me be very clear here. Abusing children is wrong, without any doubt. But a pedophile who doesn’t abuse children has done nothing wrong.” Ted management’s timid answer served to legitimize the falsehoods power-sprayed against Heine’s talk. What the objectors were really targeting was not a misperceived argument “in favor of an illegal and harmful practice.” Rather, they were spraying false accusations against the “normalizing” suggestion that pedophiles could be ethical and kindly disposed.
That problem cannot be solved by making clear statements about research.
Socially responsible friendliness and science, then, have a team image problem in relation to NOMAPs. The proponents of factual niceness are not well equipped to deal with the social situation they’re running into. In making assurances that existences once deemed anti-social are actually potentially beneficent, these mild-mannered people pose the most horrific threat imaginable to a vast throng who cling to a substratum of social beliefs that go back over a millennium. What chance do the calm realities they espouse have against the huge clamor of emotion that the Satan-finders can put forward? All the firm historical examples that liberals relied on against tribal outrage-panickers in the recent past, such as the lesson of never repeating the Holocaust, and the heroism of the African-American civil rights movement, are wobbling in the era of Trump tribalism and firehose fake news. Even science, relying on sturdy government funding and the public support that lies behind it, can’t serve as a fully reliable opponent when social outrage-panic frenzies begin to mystically portray their targets as intrinsically heterodox. Every country has some potential to become a Rwanda — and remember, Rwanda also had scientists.
Nonetheless, I don’t advocate any alternative to the friendly approach. It is a matter of much pride to me that the campaign for LGBT civil rights and integration was carried out without any violence that caused serious harm to any person, as far as I know. When gays rioted, no police were killed; no vigilante squads ever went out to track and brutalize queerbashers. When you believe that you are fit to enter civil society, you are obliged to live up to the ideals it is based on.
We can only, then, applaud the NOMAPs who doggedly go on with polite explanations of their genuine desires to do well by their fellow human beings. Even those like Enderphile who occasionally fight verbal fire with verbal return-fire are only showing that they have moral strength to back up their reliability.
It’s not as if NOMAPs don’t have a choice about being friendly, even when they remain firm about never harming a child. Although they, unlike gays, are not clustered around social centers that could serve as places to launch a riot if they felt desperately mistreated, they could still carry out dramatic isolated protests like Buddhist-style public self-immolation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation), in lieu of private suicide, if they felt sufficiently socially betrayed. I cannot begin to say how reassuring and heartening I find it that the NOMAP movement is instead completely dedicated to counseling against suicide and giving its members abundant reassurance that they can live meaningful and contributory lives.
That this highly positive outlook is being shouted down every day by people who say, whenever possible, that pedophiles SHOULD commit suicide is one of the urgent social problems of our time. Every hostile action the medieval moral symbolists undertake against anti-abuse pedophiles, supportive abuse-prevention clinicians, and objective researchers is actually a blow in favor of the isolation that leads to naïve intergenerational sex attempts and to socially agonizing acts of self-destruction. We, as a society, don’t want any of that.
How hard can it be to be friendly? How hard can it be to mean well and be seen to mean well?
Can’t we all just be friends?
