Comments on: Net threat to minors less than feared

A much anticipated report concludes that children and teens are less vulnerable to sexual predation than many have feared.

[agreddon]

Probably won't matter. Chris Hansen and others will probably start trolling IRC rooms and other places most teens (or internet users, for that matter) don't go to find a few hundred creeps that they can get to come onto their show and play up the threat for some ratings. People don't generally bother themselves with facts when they think their kids are in danger (i.e. the autism-vaccine debunked link)

[peter29073]

"This does not imply that such relationships are healthy or safe, nor that we should blame the victims or tolerate the actions of adults who engage in sex with minors"

Lay off the age discrimination, pal. Whether or not a relationship is healthy or not depends on the INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIP. You cannot judge a relationship solely on the basis of age. There are plenty of 15 yr olds who are mature enough to enter into relationship and plenty of 25 yr olds who are not mature enough to enter a relationship. I recommend you take MLK's advise and judge people on the content of their character, and not by some arbitrary characteristic (like chronological age).

[mjgregg69]

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It's about time a reputable source came out with this. I've had many other studies on my blog, which stated the same exact thing. It's all fear-mongering by the media and politicians.

[PhaseDMA]

I'm not sure how you can poll the audience being abused in this case. The ones facing the biggest risk after all are the ones that don't know their at risk to begin with. If they did that 15 year old wouldn't be going to the mall to meet the 45 year old.

Not to discredit the efforts of the task force, but the way this information is being gathered leaves a lot to be desired. Frankly I'm not sure there is any good (accurate) way to get the information.

[Lerianis]

The first thing that needs to be done: weed out the children who are KNOWINGLY and WILLINGLY going into sexual relationships with adults out of this, and make pedosexuality when the child is willing legal.

Then, once pedosexuality is brought out into the open and normalized, like homosexuality and heterosexuality, it will naturally become less dangerous for BOTH parties involved.

It's about time to realize that this whole thing about 'maturity' is a ******** argument. Period, done with, over: it's BS. The fact is that many of these adults who are saying "Children aren't self-powerful enough to make their own choices about sexual relationships!" are living in a dream world, where adults have this 'magical power' to get children to do anything they want them to do..... that's a load of crap, coming from someone who babysits children and KNOWS DIFFERENT. Hell, I know different from when I was a child: if I didn't want to do something, sexual or not.... NO ONE could get me to do it. And yes, I was having sexual relationships with adults and other children, both older and younger, and if I had it do over again.... I will still live my life the exact same way.

We need to stop allowing this persecuting of pedosexuals because they 'harm' children by having sex with them. No, the harm comes from the adults who brainwash the children into thinking that they were taken advantage of by the adults in question. Excuse me, but children have been taught for OVER 50 years now, that if someone touches them in ANY fashion without their permission.... they are supposed to yell, scream, rant and rave, and tell that person to stop or they are going to get them in trouble by telling their parents.
I blame the children in question when they do not do that, and whine later about being 'forced' into a sexual relationship.... 'scuse me, but I know what REAL force is... and I reported the persons who did that to me when I was 12. Of course, the truth is.... those people were the same age and YOUNGER than me.
To be truthful..... I cannot seriously say that I am absolutely sure that ANY adult forced me into sex. I suspect that I was drugged two times by an adult (who is sitting in jail for drugging another child).... but I cannot be sure in the slightest that he did that, because I just woke up with a sore butt and I'd had that happen before when I was at home, alone.... not even my parents there.

If people TRULY want to protect children (and the usual reason is NOT because of the sexual relationships themselves, but because of STD's).... start yelling at the government to give birth control to all girls over the age of 7 or whenever they get their first period, realize that STD's are NOT very common in pedosexuals outside of the children's famlies at all (I have YET to see one instance where a non-family member gave a child an STD, even AIDS, save when the girl/boy was snatched off the street and forcibly raped, which even I say is wrong), and start yelling at government to find cures for these STD's. There are less strains of chlamydia than polio! We should have had a cure for most STD's by now... but the religious folks use it to terrify people into not having sex outside of marriage, the ONLY reason we don't have cures and vaccines.

[Mister-BIGMOUTH]

To say that, if pedophilia were legalized, there would be no more child-rape, is just plain foolish. Heterosexuality is legal, but you still hear about men raping women on the news. Making pedophilia legal won't make things any better or any worse. To suggest otherwise is moronic, and in your case, SELFISH.

[Mister-BIGMOUTH]

You say you have a special love for kids, Lerianis, but you never talk about the children that actually do get sexualy abused by adults. All you talk about are those so-called "pedosexuals" who are now imprisoned for raping a kid. Do you feel nothing for the child who was forced into something they didn't want to do, or do you seriously think these kids don't exist? Let me remind you, heterosexuality is legal, yet women still get raped by men. Do you also feel nothing for women who had sex forced on them, and instead, pity the rapist who was "brainwashed" by religion and society who has been teaching him all his life that sex is wrong.

Try to answer this question, for once, without making a big "whoopdeedoo" about your pedosexualty. Because I have a hard time believing you feel anything for someone who had something forced on them they didn't want. You're too wrapped up in your own sexuality to give a straight answer. All your statements about sex are just plain SELFISH. You sugguest having sex with newborns is ok because they are born with genitalia, a time when they can't even talk or tell people what they want.

[Mister-BIGMOUTH]

Go get help

[The_Truth_about_Us]

And Here I was begining to get discouraged. I'm glad to see somone else is choosing to stand up. Hello evreybody my name is Truth and I am a pedosexual. I accept who I am and will not feel guilty. I want evreyone to that pedosexuality is a sexual orintation just like hetro and **** sexuality is. We are not monsters and feel that adult-child sex that is consensual, responsible, and based upon an emotion bond of trust, honesty, and respect should be legalized. To here the arguments of what I support and why please google "pedo credo" and click the first link, within is a mirror from a now disbanded website.

to Mister-Bigmouth; you make a valid point. Rape will always be a part of this world but it is a crime that crosses all lines. A rapist can be straight, gay, or pedo but just as not all hetros or homos are reapists the same is true for us. The idea that child rape will decline if our lifestyle is legalised is based upon the idea that some of us are pushed to such acts out of despiration becuase there is no legal way for us to express our love. If we are legalized such acts of desperation will vanish and child rape will see a small decline.

In your second post you mention children who are abused. To all abuse children (and adults who were abused as children) please accept my sincear apologies on behave of the pedosexual community. Those who hurt children sicken us. The very notion of hurting or raping a child goes against our very credo, but please understand, we do NOT condone their actions. We respect that a child will always have the right to say no, and those who touch the child (where the child said not to) are not welcome among us. We who love children will always wait untill the child says yes, and will do NOTHING that is against the child's will.

Later in you post you talk of brainwashing, funny that you should mention that. You see, a pedosexual that accepts him/her self is alrady free from societies guilt dumping agenda. The once who trully need protection from brainwashing are the children themselvs. All of their lives children are told that sex is "dirty" and "wrong" and we (the pedo) simply don't feel this way. We want evrey child to know about sex and that they (and they alone) may choose not only wither they have sex at all, but also with whom they have it with. Society tells children evreyday to say no to the "inapropiate" attentions of the pedo, and while we agree that a child should always voice his/her discomfort (and say no to the advance) we want the world to know that when you give somone the right to say no, you also give them the right to choose to say yes. we have no intrest in an unwilling child, we wish to be in consensual relashionships with children or not at all.

Finally, you said to Lerianis "go get help";
well you should know that he/she has help: Me! and others like me (Such as GVGL)

The message I want you (and the whole world as well) to hear right now is: No matter how much you hate us, no matter how hard you try to desroy us, no matter how long you close your eyes and pretend we don't exist; We are here and we are NEVER going away! Someday we will be free to live our lives, and when that day comes we will shout from all the rooftops:
"I am a pedosexual and I am proud!"
and then we will join hands with our supporters and the children whom we love and who love us back, and we will sing aloud:
"Free at last, free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!"

[The_Truth_about_Us]

Censorship? Here? Blah! the four * in my above post was the word **** (part of homosexuality)

[GlennAllen]

The only thing a child, or anyone for that matter, needs to be protected from is physical violence. The biggest "threat" to children is incompetent parents doing nothing to actually TEACH their children about life as well as doing nothing to make that life safer (let's put the violent criminals in jail and leave them there and execute the ones that deserve it BECAUSE you *truly* value life). It's still as true now as it has ever been: what you don't know can hurt you. The "Internet" can't harm anyone, but parents harm their children every day by not preparing their children for the realities of life and ignoring the need to fix real problems in their communities. Bad parents. Corrupt politicians. The Internet doesn't harm people... people harm people.

[caesarsf]

Are you really serious? If this issue was not brought up there would still be 50,000 sexual predators on Myspace, and there are probably still more on Myspace and other sites. Did myspace contact the parents of the children that were contacted? Did they share the messages and correspondence? If technology does not work then why is myspace and supposedly facebook using technology to find sexual predators?
These are real unanswered questions that you did not even address.

Did sexual interactions happen between minors and adults before the internet? Certainly. Has it increased significantly since then, I would have to say that it has. Now is this a positive thing that 24 year olds interact sexually in the internet with 17 year olds. I would say no but the panel seems to think that that is okay. Not for me. Can we do something, although not perfect to segment the two groups?
Yes, adults can be verified. Minors cannot. Is it perfect? No. But is something that is mostly effective better than nothing. I believe that it is. Do we place age restrictions on some items? Yes. Is it perfect? No. But is it better than no restrictions for age? I say no. What specific technology was reviewed by name, and what was the flaws and benefits? What is the cost that must be born by providers? How much? And what is 50,000 sex offenders on myspace worth?