http://www.attractedtochildren.org An Informational Website About Paedophilia - Facts, Studies, Editorials, Information and Law Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:54:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After much lobbying by numerous commercialised “charities”, the parliament of the United Kingdom has enacted a law which is likely to lead to the sexual abuse of countless real children but is likely to win support for the spineless and dangerous politicians who supported it. In their earlier defence of legislation ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2009/offensive-virtual-images-of-children-are-now-illegal-in-the-uk In 2006, the UK Home Office (which has since devolved many of its powers to the Ministry of Justice) announced plans to criminalise the possession of "non-photographic images of child sexual abuse" (BBC, 2006). The justification for this law was based upon several assumptions, none of which are supported empirically. The ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2009/the-perverse-politics-of-virtual-child-porn-law In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labelling disapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime or, in Newspeak, "crimethink". In the book, Winston Smith, the main character, writes in his diary: "Thoughtcrime does ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2009/proposing-and-executing-thoughtcrime The Daily Sun: London CHRISTMAS has been cancelled for a second year, following the arrest of Santa for "evading the prohibition on the importation of indecent material". According to the Metropolitan Police's Paedophile Unit, Santa first came under suspicion after he was found to have travelled to Thailand more than 200 ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/santa-arrested-for-paedo-pics The mere possession of child pornography has today become an offence in Slovenia, following the adoption of a new penal code. According to the new law, it will be an offence for a person to possess "pornographic or other sexual material depicting minors or their realistic images". The maximum sentence ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/possession-of-child-pornography-becomes-illegal-in-slovenia Members of the PNVD, a Dutch political party which supports the reform of legislative and social attitudes towards child sexuality and paedophilia, were recently harassed during a protest against EU data retention laws. Four members of the party peacefully joined the protest in The Hague (Holland) on October 11, however ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/pnvd-harassed-by-authorities-at-peaceful-protest Due to inactivity and the increasingly academic nature of contributions, we are going to change the format of this website. This blog will be locked but will remain online, while new material will be written for static pages, outside of the Wordpress format. A new Slashdot-style blogging service will be ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/update If we were to put aside our case for non-contact pedophile rights - just for a moment, how many adverse consequences could we list for society in general? I almost considered grafting extra fingers to count them all. In this half of my post, I consider the negative impacts on ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/the-adverse-effects-of-child-sexual-hysteria-part-1 The suitably Orwellian-sounding Ministry of Justice has announced that it is to criminalise the possession of "all images of child sexual abuse, including drawings and computer-generated images". When the Home Office originally outlined their plans to criminalise such cartoons, I urged people to send a reply to the consultation and many ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/politics-of-an-obscene-character It is often claimed that child pornography involves violence and sexual abuse against children. That claim is used to justify a vast amount of funding for organisations such as CEOP, as well as restrictive and illiberal legislation. The book Child Pornography: Crime, Computers and Society provides insight into the content of ... http://www.attractedtochildren.org/2008/the-content-of-indecent-images