I guess my love of photographs will be no secret to regular readers of this blog. A good photograph, like any good work of art, is a conundrum that obliges us to think, feel, and engage more deeply with existence. Which means that a good photograph is also good to write about. Because the following…
De Singly’s Preface to ‘L’Enfant Interdit’ – in English
I have decided to publish my translation of de Singly's preface to Verdrager's book - L'Enfant Interdit. Despite the hostile conclusions of de Singly's preface, I think it contains enough that is interesting, challenging, and useful to the 'thinking paedophile' that, given that it is roughly blog-length, and that it requires little extra work on…
The Forbidden Child – Dual Status & Its Implications
I have hesitated whether to publish the following essay. I started it almost two years ago and all but finished it last March. However, revisiting it I feared that it would interest few of this blog's readers: it focuses on an abstract philosophical idea touched upon in the preface to an academic book which, under…
Request For Contributions From Female Paedophiles & Sabbatical Announcement
Further down the page you'll find some, well, ahem, stimulating videos...I mean, of course, intellectually stimulating - raising as they do issues of culture, socialisation, instinct and gender normative differentials etc. But before you hare off in search of said stimulation, let me grab your elbow, subtly block your escape route and, whilst I've still…
A Miracle Interrupted: Remembering Paul Christiano 1976-2015
"Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?" (from Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot') On August the 4th, 2015 the Chicago Tribune published an article whose headline read 'Paul Christiano, talented dancer and choreographer with a difficult past, is dead at 39'. Christiano was a paedophile, and he had taken his own life. I Paul…
Comparing Paedophilia & Homosexuality
- What does society gain by permitting adults to have sex with children? - You could ask the same question of homosexuality: what does society gain by permitting people of the same sex to have sex with one-another? - Trying to compare pedophilia with homosexuality is false equivalency. What consenting adults do together sexually is…
Who Are the REAL Virtuous Paedophiles?
This post, like most of my recent ones, comes in at over 3000 words. I appreciate that not all readers have the time or the inclination to read an essay of this length. Such readers may wish to skip straight to the penultimate section of this essay (with the title 'I have a dream...') and…
Dr Cantor And The Case Of The Missing Stigma – Part Two
(This is the second half of a longer essay. Unless you are already familiar with the methodology of Cantor's paedophilia research, much of this essay won't make sense if you haven't read the first part ) A doctor who specialises in smoking-related lung cancer notices from his patients' health records that during their childhoods (defined as…
Dr Cantor And The Case Of The Missing Stigma – Part One
What follows emerges from the confluence of two earlier essays on ConsentingA̶d̶u̶l̶t̶s̶Humans. Ideally the reader should (re)familarise him or herself with these before plunging into what follows. In the first of these tributary essays, Dr Cantor & the Case of the Extrapolated Equivalence, I summarise Dr Cantor's research on paedophile offenders, and investigate some general problems…
Stigma and Paedophilia – the Early Years
My original intention for this essay was to research the effects of stigma on the most vulnerable amongst us – young persons in the process of realising that they may be paedophiles. Searches for relevant studies have turned up nothing that properly addresses this issue. There are some scientific papers that address the more general…
A Humiliation, Radical Paedophilia, Telling & Keeping Secrets
I had prepared a selection and analysis of clips featuring women and children. But just before the intended day for publication DailyMotion took umbrage at one (or more) of the clips I'd uploaded, and closed down my account. To add to my difficulties an outbreak of house-guests (who were otherwise most welcome) has deprived me…
On Stigma and Paedophilia – a Theoretical Framework
“With knives and branding irons, ancient Greeks would slice and burn criminals and traitors to denote their immorality or lack of fitness for regular society. Such a mark was called a “stigma”, and an individual bearing a stigma was to be discredited, scorned, and avoided.” (Neuberg, Smith & Asher - from 'Why People Stigmatize: Toward…
