Yes, I'm a pedophile


lordogreus's avatar
To many of you, this isn't news; it is, however, to quite a few, including some people who have come to know me better over the last few months.

This is not about whether lolicon should be tolerated, and it's not about whether being attracted to children is morally bad.

My complaint is secrecy and maintaining anonymity.

I have met a lot of kind and open-minded individuals online. I hope that, at the very least, the rest of you won't hate or shun me.

Over the last few months, I've gotten a surprising number of notes and comments from people who have congratulated me for announcing it fearlessly. Part of the reason why I have not tried too hard to keep it a secret here is because I have felt sufficiently assured that my identity has not been given out.

Nevertheless, I wish it did not have to be this way. I wish it were no different than admitting to being homosexual, in light of the increasing amount of tolerance thereof.

I understand why some people would be concerned, and I have to accept that it's not something that is going to change.

A subscription was purchased for me, in part because I am afraid to have my personal information associated with this account.

tl;dr It's frustrating living with this secret.
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mykel's avatar
:lock: Merry Christmas.
Nami-chan13's avatar
:O I thought this thread got locked.
thetifftiff's avatar
It was. Someone must have deemed the reason for the lock stupid.
Depressperado's avatar
waaaaaitttt, someone congratulated you for coming out as a pedophile. really?

also did you just compare homosexuality to pedophilia?




godDAMNIT internet.
thetifftiff's avatar
People congratulated him because it's a tough thing to live with and being able to admit it to others (since he obviously did to himself a while ago) is a step toward getting through it, unlike the people that repress it for years and act on it.

He compared pedophilia to homosexuality because people need to accept that pedophiles (as in people sexually attracted to children, not the ones who rape them since that's not always the same thing) don't chose to be sexually attracted to children just as homosexuals don't chose to be attracted to the same sex (and heterosexuals don't chose to be attracted to the opposite sex for that matter). As long as someone doesn't act on those urges and doesn't look at real child porn they haven't done anything wrong.
RaminaRibcage's avatar
You're disgusting.
lordogreus's avatar
And you're just chock-full of profound insight, aren't you? :lol:
RaminaRibcage's avatar
I don't care, you're gross.
DavidJCobb's avatar
And you're an ignorant little twit lacking the ability to distinguish between an uncontrollable urge and an action, lacking the ability to make moral judgments based on logic, instead using your own stubborn prejudgments even when coherent, logical, and factual explanations are provided to disprove them.

To quote a fictional character, "[Merry Christmas] and a happy go to hell."
thetifftiff's avatar
Why exactly? He has an attraction he didn't chose to have, can you really blame him for something he didn't chose? He claims he's never touched a child and I see no more reason not to believe him than for me to believe that you've never touched a child, especially considering most people who molest children aren't even sexually attracted to them.
RaminaRibcage's avatar
I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR EXPLANATION, THAT'S CREEPY
thetifftiff's avatar
So you really think it's fair to condemn someone for a sexual attraction they didn't chose to have?
SaiScribbles's avatar
You know, really, come on. If he wasn't a "regular", and was someone who just signed up and posted this you all would have torn him to shreds.
thetifftiff's avatar
Not exactly because I know the difference between a pedophile and child molester. I can admit to having my share of arguments when he first came to Complaints but those were all about certain things he was posting at the time, not about his attraction.

Besides just being a regular doesn't earn my respect, there have been plenty of people that have been considered regulars that I haven't liked. My respect for him comes from conversations we've had, not simply his being considered a regular.
SaiScribbles's avatar
Really? That's not a factor at all? So Teruchan draws under-aged looking girls, Bleedman draws little girls with their panties showing, and those two are the source of endless mirth and derision. This guy draws little girls in revealing outfits and openly admits to being a pedophile and everyone goes "aww he sho shweet". The only difference I see between them is this guy posts in Complaints occasionally. That he even used Complaints to make personal confessions to a bunch of strangers would be considered inappropriate and mock-worthy if he was anything but a "regular".
thetifftiff's avatar
I wouldn't care what Bleedman or Teruchan drew if they kept it off dA and on sites that allowed such things. lordogreus has a few iffy things in his gallery but he hasn't posted anything like that since I argued with him about it.

I don't have anything against the existence of loli or shota as long as it stays on sites that allow it. It can be used as a tool to avoid the temptation to look at real child porn or hurt a real child (I really can't believe it encourages it seeing as it seems to dull the need).

So I can't speak for anyone else but his being a regular isn't why I treat him the way I do, it takes a lot more to earn my respect than just posting in Complaints a lot.
SaiScribbles's avatar
Yeah but he hasn't exactly deleted them either. What difference is there between this and this? Pretty recently is also a drawing of Dakota Fanning who did a rape scene in a recent film.

So he's such an innocent pedophile no one can say anything bad about but you still try to censor him?

Well I thought it was ridiculous months ago as I think it is now, here we have some drama queen confessing some disturbing thing and a group of facilitating and enabling BFFs running to his rescue and bombarding every comment that isn't "you're such a brave soul!" with whine.
Bumsy's avatar
Why are we still giving this guy attention?
lordogreus's avatar
Because it makes for good drama. =P
thetifftiff's avatar
Someone unlocked the thread (probably because the lock wasn't technically deserved) and people replied. You can't really complain seeing as your reply bumped the thread too.
rockscorp's avatar
what extaly do you understand phedophilia?
rockscorp's avatar
so you not just a phedophilia you stupid to great combination...
DavidJCobb's avatar
Or maybe you just can't type coherently.