500 Words - Pedophiles Helping Other Pedophiles
There are how-to guides just about everywhere on the Internet. One of my favorite sites that I read daily is called wikiHow. Absent from this “how-to” site is how to be a pedophile or help with being one. Is there something wrong with learning about how to be a pedophile — someone who is attracted to young children?
While I will try to refrain from judging rather harshly, I would have to say there is something seriously wrong with a site that is geared towards pedophiles and helps pedophiles “engage in their hobby” of stalking (err, watching) young girls. One such website I learned about is called Stegl.org (no longer up, but a cache is provided). This website was geared towards helping pedophiles find safe ways to stalk little girls.
The former owner of Stegl — a 45 year-old Everett, Washington man named Jack McClellan — said that he didn’t see his website as a problem as long as children weren’t being hurt. In a related Foxnews article, McClellan said this when asked why he likes little girls: “I guess the main thing is I just think they’re cute, a lot cuter than women. I admit there is kind of an erotic arousal there.”
As horrible as Stegl.org was (thankfully it was taken down by his web host), there are still sites up that gear themselves to pedophiles. And these sites are not breaking the law. Huh?
For example, this quotation is listed in the FAQ of AnnaBelleigh.net (not work safe) regarding “Who are These People Posting Here”:
They are a portion of the male and female population ranging in age from their teens to quite old who share a bond of having a particular affinity for teen and/or pre-teen girls.
Having how-to guides for pedophiles (with some sites still live) begs the question: is there something the rest of us (who are not pedophiles) missing? The owner of Stegl.org compared pedophilia to other hobbies (such as liking birds). To compare someone else’s child to a bird is ludicrous. I doubt there is an organization out there solely dedicated to stalking and locating baby birds. Furthermore, birds are animals in the wild where there is hunter and prey. Are the children the prey of pedophiles?
Perhaps there is something I’m missing here. Being a pedophile itself is not actually breaking the law. Only after a pedophile has sexually abused a child is being a pedophile a bad thing, right? Am I simply being too harsh because I don’t understand them (the pedophiles)?
I do know this, however: it seems to me that providing an environment where pedophiles can freely “observe” kids is like hanging the carrot in front of the horse. The temptation is already there for these people; it wouldn’t be that much more difficult to take the pedophilia one stop further and hurt a child.
How-to websites for pedophiles should be taken down. Kids need to be able to grow up in peace without having some older stranger looking onwards in a lustful manner. Sure, children are beautiful. However, there is a point where the beauty of children can be perverted… in the form of pedophilia.
That’s my 500 Words.
I have five screenshots of two pedophile sites on my Flickr account.
Update 08/14/2007: Jack McClellan was arrested near the University of California in Los Angeles for violating a restraining order regarding minors.
Join the Discussion (17 Comments)
Since I have a little daughter this topic concerns me a lot. If it was up to me, once a pedophile is caught, he should be sentenced to lifetime in prison - I don’t want to see him released from the penitentiary - in my opinion, they never change.
As for such websites: how can the site owner say that he “didn’t see his website as a problem as long as children weren’t being hurt”? Can he assure that? What if the children are being hurt after one of those perverts visited his site? Will he take the site down? Again, in my opinion, even the owners of such sites should be put in jail. A normal person would never put websites like that live.
Posted on April 4th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
inspirationbit,
Being a non-parent, I can’t totally relate, but I do understand the need to keep pedophiles away from children. I don’t want it to ever be socially acceptable in the US — or Canada for that matter — to be a pedophile.
Posted on April 4th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
All pedophiles should be castrated and have their fingers removed without any medication. I would seriously reccomend suicide as an honorable way to end their evil ways. Then they would be no longer be a threat to children.
Posted on August 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I’m ABIT of a dodgey character when it comes to children but this is plain wrong and should be shut off immediately. but their should be more help for pedophiles because there are people who are abit dodgey like me, and let me tell you im dead odvious because im an open person its my nature and altho i have done many bad things mainly watched things i shouldn’t have, i carry regrets for doing it and i can’t hide what i have done wrong to other people because i know its bad. but imagine im never going to get a GF due to my problem most people hate me instinctively, im constantley watching my back, and people are watching it for me with razors for eyes. i can’t cope with the fact that i may be a pedophile so im either not or in denial but i do act strange and that makes people think i am. the real pedophiles, the really sick ones that think its ok should be shot because they have got it lodged in their head, you can’t fix a person like that, but the very mild ones like me need understanding. i mean the LAST thing i want near me is a child, i don’t like to talk about them, i avoid conversation about them (and themselves even if there is no-body about i don’t care). But imagine i can never have children (Oh i was abused, not badly but i was abused). i even avoid male children, and im VERY straight, the word child gives me a nervous smile. i spend alot of time inside, i live right next to a school i have a young sister (11-12) but im only twenty myself i used to look for pictures of tennage girls when i was 13 but so did my friend and i on’t think he is having the same problems as me. i just want to be pitied. this hell is never going to end. i used to be a baby sitter, a good baby sitter. im attracted to older women (attractive older women) fell in love with a 25-30 year old, i think she could tell there was something wrong with me so she didn’t want me, that really broke my heart. my sister(12) used to flirt with me, in a quite serious way, because i think she thought i would actually do something, odviously never did or would. but watching porn off of peer networks has screwed up my perception abit. ive lost friends. i take drugs tell help me, illicite ones like base. i can’t work out if im so paranoid of being a pedo, dirty pedo as i call it, that its causing me to act like one or i am one in denial. i know that sex with minors is wrong, and that children are sometimes attracted to adults, in a sexual way kinda, and that the adult should never take advantage of this, as children do not know enough to be making large decisions like that. i like children and would love to teach one, my son hopefully if this shit storm ever wears of all i know. i used to be really good with children, now i lack confidence to go near them. when i see a girl who is young yet attractive i think i say in my head that she will grow up in to an attractive girl, then imagining older, then imagine have sex with her. thats all from me folks bye
Posted on September 9th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Being a pedo myself, and wanting a daughter, i dont like people hating on things they dont understand. As a pedo i hate child abusers. I have never been abused or associate with abusers. I love little girls they are incredibly beautiful but i would never hurt one. You people make me sick. Pedoism is natural but we have control over our actions most of us wait for a girl we fall for never doing anything illegal. We wait for them because we love them. Stop pretending you know what a pedo is, its harder then hell for us. But i wish to see abusers die.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“A Wilkin says…
All pedophiles should be castrated and have their fingers removed without any medication. I would seriously reccomend suicide as an honorable way to end their evil ways. Then they would be no longer be a threat to children.”
You are fuckn asshole. I’m a pedophile, I never asked to be, and you just wouldn’t have a first clue what it’s like for me. what I have been through. Agreeing with the post at the bottom of the page, I too have no affinity to hurting children, I am also not a danger to any children as I am in control over my actions, I don’t stalk and never will do. You don’t have to accept me, so I don’t have to accept you either. I have come close to killing myself many times over the matter, it’s not like we accept it lightly. being a pedophile isn’t wrong, nor is it illegal, abusing/abducting children is illegal, get your facts right before you go off on one just because you’re a parent with a kid. Know what my theory is? Although most of you would claim that intergenerational sexual contact is “wrong” and “immoral” I believe that that is actually a mask statement, I believe that it is more about you simply not liking the idea of sex with kids, that you actually find it disgusting (which is obvious because you’re not a pedophile). Same happened with homosexuality, for hundreds of years, people said being gay was wrong, only because they found it disgusting because they aren’t gay themselves. I find gay sex quite disgusting myself, but that’s only because i’m not gay - does that mean I should persacute them for it? just goes to show how ignorant all you pedo-haters all are. Thank you.
Posted on April 8th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Guys, I know this is a touchy subject (no pun intended), but there is no need to swear on my blog. You can get your point across without resorting to strong language. If you can’t, then your comment doesn’t belong here.
Thanks.
Ronald
Posted on April 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Sorry Ron. Don’t know how to edit it out.
Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
matt »
np. Just for future reference. It’s not necessary, but you’re welcome to post a revised comment and I can delete the original. It’s up to you.
Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Well first off, I think theres nothing wrong about having sexual feelings, urges or even
relationships with children as long as they arent hurt in any way. Now People may argue that
even having such a relationship with them will hurt them, but why is that, because its
parents and society are telling children that its wrong and that causes them to feel
embarassed, abused and violated. Thus if a adult has a sexual relationship with a child
without harming him/her in any way explaining every little detail and leaving the child to
decide what makes it still wrong , because society in its majority has deemed it unusual,
unconventional and harmful. Im sorry but thats ignorant. Think about it, 30 years ago we
never had these child molesting issues we have now, we didnt have people raping, molesting
and murdering children left, right and center. Why is this, because it wasnt as evil and
immoral back then to just love or have sexual urges over a child or look lustfully at a
child (dont get me wrong raping, molesting, abusing or harming anybody, nevermind a child,
is and always should be pure evil), thus people portrayed it as weird but it wasnt a serious
crime. Now just hinting at the faintest clue of having sexual urges or no just finding
children sexually attractive automatically makes you satan incarnate. This causes a lot more
tension and stress on people and as time rolls on and the responses and punishments getting
worse for acts that seemed not so bad 30 years ago people tend to get a little more
psychotic and out of control thus the increase in child molesting that we see today. Think
of it this way, 30 years ago child rape and molesting were virtually unheard of now its one
of the most occuring crimes, I mean do the math. Finally thats where my urges come in, I
wouldnt mind having a sexual relationship with a prepubescent girl, completely consensual, I
mean I cant stress enough the fact on how much I hate child rapests, molesters and murderers
I mean I do like girls on a higher level than normal people thus its only natural for me to
hate those that hurt them in any way, I sometimes just get pissed if a parent would ignore
or yell at their daughter in the mall. Im just saying its unfair that society clumps true
pedophiles (child lovers) with child molesters (those that hurt children). I just hope that
some day society can open their eyes, and start embracing individuality than pushing it
away.
Posted on April 18th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
@A,
It’s a matter of maturity. Can a prepubescent girl (as you say it) make a rational and mature decision compared to that of an at-age adult? I know some college-age girls who can’t make that decision wisely, much less a woman of much younger age.
Posted on April 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Yes, but if they agree to it and they are prepubescent, people think that its still wrong cause the child cant make decisions for herself, but thats the thing, if she was told and explained all the details of sex then asked if she wants to do it and says yes there is no harm done to her she knows what shes getting into and she did agree, now she might not have the insight older women have but she was never hurt and as long as shes reassured by enough people later in life that what she did when she was young is fine then she wont suffer in any way, physical or psychological. Thats the the thing though , this is where society comes in and reassures the girl later in life that what she did wasnt right, and what the man did wasnt right. This causes her to develop psychological trauma, feel ashamed and exposed. Thus it never was the pedophile or the girls fault.
Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 6:46 am
@matt:
I couldnt have said it better, pedophiles will never hurt children, that includes me. People only think its evil cause they dont agree with it, they wont do it, Im sorry but that is just ignorance. I myself have also related pedophiles today with gays a few years back, I agree 100% with you.
Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am
I think there is more pedophiles than you can ever imagine,they were always there and the will be.think about it its not a newborn thing,”normal” people just never knew about it.we can;t really tell everyone cose,its not acceptable to love a child or someone younger than 18 in this country.that 18yo is a new thing girls used to get marryed at age 13 and they still do in many country.so would you lock up or kill those who marry a girl 13 just cose their religion works that way.?you guys “normal” people should really take a closer look at who hurts you child more a pedophile or Mc donald’s.you know its killing her,you still feed her with it.you “normal” peaople must be able to learn and see the different between a pedophile and a predator,not the same.thx.
Posted on April 20th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Thank you one finally another person that agrees with me, I like your example on the religion and different countries culture. Youn I just wish there were more people like you in this world.
Posted on April 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
very intelligent advocating cutting off people’s fingers and castrating them because you disapprove of a persons sexual preference.
maybe everyone should use violence against those who they disagree with.
are we as a civilization becomeing more enlightened or more primative.
judging by the comments made about “cutting fingers off”, it seems we are getting more primative.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I am a pedophile and hate myself. It is not normal or natural to have the feelings and inclinations that I have. I am here to tell you that this is an abnormal psychological condition that I can’t figure out. I have no clue how why or where this came from with myself personaly. It started for me around puberty and has been present in my life until now. Children are innocent and learn from adults. They are at our mercy and in our care. They cant assimilate feelings and dont have any historical perspective. This condition has ruined my life in America. My life will forever be tragic due to this predisposition and or disease. I need a miracle. Dont let the pedophiles tell you any differently. They feel the same.
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm