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The Client No One Wants to Treat: What Happens When We Shun Pedophiles in Our Practices , Chris Lyford, 1 May 2024, Psychotherapy Networker

Preventing Child Abuse Should Not Be Controversial. My Own Hate Mail Reveals That It Is , Allyn Walker, 15 Jan 2024, Scientific American

Social Dark Matter , Duncan Sabien, 16 Nov 2023, LessWrong

Please Think of The Children: An Objective Look at Pedophilia and The Stigma Surrounding It , Achilles, 11 Oct 2023, Medium

De är pedofilerna som vill stoppa sexuella övergrepp på barn , Lotta Hohner, 1 Oct 2023, Goteborgs-Posten

Could AI-Generated Porn Help Protect Children? , Danielle Bernstein, 22 Aug 2023, Wired


Most Notable


The Client No One Wants to Treat: What Happens When We Shun Pedophiles in Our Practices , Chris Lyford, 1 May 2024, Psychotherapy Networker

Social Dark Matter , Duncan Sabien, 16 Nov 2023, LessWrong

Could AI-Generated Porn Help Protect Children? , Danielle Bernstein, 22 Aug 2023, Wired

Online Support Groups Can Keep Pedophiles From Offending but They Keep Getting Shut Down , Katy Herzog, 20 Jul 2018, The Stranger

I Spent a Year Living With ‘Non-Offending’ Paedophiles , Alexander McBride, 3 May 2017, Vice

Brains of Paedophiles Who Abuse Children Are Different To Those Who Do Not , Ian Johnston, 25 Oct 2016, Independent

Why Would Someone Choose to be a Monster? , Simon Lewson, 28 Sep 2016, The Walrus

Realizing You’re A Pedophile Can Make you Want To Kill Yourself , Paul Willis, 15 Jan 2016, Vice Magazine

I’m a Pedophile But Not a Monster , Todd Nickerson, 21 Sep 2015, Salon.com

We Need to Make It Easier for Pedophiles to Seek Help , Elizabeth Letourneau, 10 Oct 2014, Time Op-Ed

You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? , Luke Malone, 11 Aug 2014, Medium

Do Pedophiles Deserve Sympathy? , James Cantor, 21 Jun 2012, CNN


By Pedophiles


Please Think of The Children: An Objective Look at Pedophilia and The Stigma Surrounding It , Achilles, 11 Oct 2023, Medium

The first time I didn’t view child pornography , Bly Rede, 4 Nov 2021, Substack

We have to protect children - even the ones you hate , Bly Rede, 2 Dec 2019, Prostasia

A Coming Out That Has To Remain A secret , Ben Kirssen, 13 Apr 2016, Wordpress

I’m a Pedophile, You’re the Monsters , Todd Nickerson, 30 Sep 2015, Salon.com

I’m a Pedophile But Not a Monster , Todd Nickerson, 21 Sep 2015, Salon.com

Guest Blog - I am a Pedophile , Anonymous, 16 Oct 2013, The Mental Illness Happy Hour


Others


Australia has resisted treating paedophiles before they harm children. Now that view is changing , Andrew Messenger, 12 Feb 2023, The Guardian

Rules for thee but not for me: MAPs under the GDPR , Prostasia Newsletter, 1 Dec 2022, Prostasia

Letter from ’non-offending paedophile’ planted inside book at Bristol Library removed as police notified , Madeleine Bourne, 19 Jul 2022, Bristol Live

Man arrested for stealing sausage rolls killed himself after police labelled him a paedophile , Matthew Weaver, 21 Jun 2022, The Guardian

Worcester man had 1,468 ‘cartoon’ images of child sex abuse , James Connell, 22 May 2022, Worcester News

MSP says she felt pressured to disclose her story after death threats she received over tweet about paedophiles , Libby Brooks, 30 Jan 2022, The Guardian

The complicated research behind pedophilia , Alia E. Dastagir, 11 Jan 2022, USA Today

A Megachurch Reels After Learning Pastor Let His Professed Pedophile Son Work With Kids , Carol Kuruvilla, 14 Jul 2020, Huffington Post

Preying on Children: The Emerging Psychology of Pedophiles , Benedict Carey, 29 Sep 2019, New York Times

My Experience Discussing Pedophilia with the Media , Craig Harper, 16 Mar 2019, Medium

Your twenty year old son has just told you he is sexually attracted to children. Now what do you do? , Sarah D. Goode, 20 Nov 2018, UK Council for Psychotherapy

Exploring the unspeakable: therapeutic work with paedophile clients , UK Council for Psychotherapy, 20 Nov 2018, UK Council for Psychotherapy

Go Ask Alice! I Don’t Want to be a Pedophile , , 9 Nov 2018, Columbia University

Why We Should Support Anti-Contact Pedophiles on Twitter , Craig Harper, 25 Dec 2017, Medium

The young paedophiles who say they don’t abuse children , Catherine Burns, 11 Sep 2017, BBC News

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Absurdly Repressive North Carolina Sex Offender Law , Joseph Mark Stern, 2 Dec 2016, Slate

I’m Not a Monster , Sarah Burns, 17 Nov 2016, The Sun

Towards Informed Public Policies to Prevent Sexual Abuse , Kelly Babchishin, 11 Nov 2016, Nextgenforensic

Model Project for Pedophiles Saved , Kay-Alexander Scholz, 25 Oct 2016, Deutsche Welle

UK Mandatory Reporting , Juliet Grayson, 13 Oct 2016, Stopso

Belgian paedophile says euthanasia is only way to escape his ‘unbearable’ sexual orientation , Katie Forster, 6 Oct 2016, The Indpendent

Tackling A Tough Subject: Why I Made a Documentary About Pedophiles , Matthew Campea, 3 Oct 2016, Firsthand

He is A Pedophile But That Doesn’t Make Him A Child Molester , Juliet Grayson, 18 Sep 2016, Huffington Post

What It’s Like To Be A Celibate Pedophile , Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, 18 Aug 2016, New York Magazine

Shedding Light on the Dark Field , Editorial, 13 Aug 2016, Economist

No Way Out , Stephen Dark, 10 Aug 2016, Salt Lake City Weekly

Should We Lift the Stigma on Virtuous Pedophiles? , Sherry Colb, 12 Jul 2016, Verdict

Disclosing a sexual interest in children to others , Ian McPhail, 1 Jun 2016, Nextgenforensic

Virtuous Pedophiles Put Therapists In An Ethical Catch-22 , Tracy Clark-Flory, 23 May 2016, Vocativ

Beyond Choice & Reason: Non-offending Paedophilia , Alexander McBride Wilson, 1 May 2016, Flint Magazine

How Is Pedophilia A Health Issue? , Ruby Scully Prosser, 29 Apr 2016, Medical Republic

How Should Society Handle Pedophiles Who Haven’t Hurt Anyone , Jesse Singal, 13 Apr 2016, New York Magazine

Non-Offending Pedophiles Suffer From Isolation , Robert Muller, 17 Mar 2016, Psychology Today

When Kids Are Accused of Sex Crimes , Sarah Stillman, 14 Mar 2016, The New Yorker Magazine

I, Pedophile dares to empathize , Knelman Martin, 9 Mar 2016, The Star

What Should We Do About Paedophiles , Sophie Elmhurst, 1 Mar 2016, Guardian

Newfoundland’s Child Sex Doll Trial Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Pedophilia and the Law , Dorian Geiger, 25 Feb 2016, Vice

For Looking at Child Porn a Judge Imposes a Sentence of Days Rather Than Years , Jacob Sullum, 1 Feb 2016, Reason

Should this man go to prison for buying a child sex doll? , Kristen Brown, 1 Feb 2016, Fusion

Can Virtual Sex Prevent Pedophiles from Harming Children In Real Life , C D’Anasastasio, 14 Jan 2016, Vice Magazine

Can Child Sex Dolls Keep Pedophiles From Offending? , Ric Morin, 11 Jan 2016, Atlantic Magazine

Of People and Pedophiles , Sean Smith, 28 Nov 2015, The Varsity Magazine

Are Pedophiles’ Brains Wired Differently? , Magazine News BBC, 24 Nov 2015, BBC News Magazine

Sympathy for the Deviant , Jennifer Bleyer, 3 Nov 2015, Psychology Today

The Pedophile I Could Not Help , Debra Soh, 27 Oct 2015, Salon.com

How Germany Treats Paedophiles Before They Offend , Kate Connolly, 16 Oct 2015, Guardian

As courts censure civil detention practices , David Prescott, 24 Sep 2015, Forensic Psychologist

Germany Urges Paedophiles Out of the Shadows , Daniel McGuinness, 13 Jul 2015, BBC News Magazine

Facing Disturbing Truths About Pedophilia Could Help Us Keep Kids Safer , Brian Whitney, 1 Jul 2015, Pacific Standard

How Precision in Language Can Help Prevent Sexual Abuse , Kelly Babchishin, 20 Feb 2015, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment

5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia That Makes it Worse , Robert Evans, 8 Feb 2015, cracked.com

Can You Stop A Paedophile Before They Even Start? , Dominic Hurst, 4 Feb 2015, BBC News Magazine

When society mistakes pedophiles for molesters , Kate Ferguson, 2 Dec 2014, dw.com

Pedophilia: A Disorder , Margo Kaplan, 26 Oct 2014, The New York Times

Should we do more to help paedophiles? , Rebecca Roache, 13 Aug 2014, University of Oxford

The Pedophiles Who Don’t Want to Hurt Children , C Sicha, 11 Aug 2014, The Awl

Virtuous Pedophiles Gives Support Therapy Cannot , A Hildebrandt, 1 Aug 2014, CBCNews

Study Finds Pedophiles’ Brains Wired to Find Children Attractive , Charlotte Lytton, 23 May 2014, The Daily Beast

Inside the Mind of a Pedophile , Martin McKenzie-Murray, 10 May 2014, The Saturday Paper

Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation? , Laura Kane, 22 Dec 2013, Toronto Star

I, Pedophile , David Goldberg, 26 Aug 2013, The Atlantic

What Can Be Done About Pedophilia? , Alice Dreger, 26 Aug 2013, The Atlantic

A Prevention-First Approach to Child Sexual Abuse , Elizabeth Letourneau, 6 Aug 2013, The Baltimore Sun

Happy Birthday, Virtuous Pedophiles! , James Cantor, 15 Jul 2013, Sexology Today Blog

Are Some Men Born Pedophiles? New Science Says Yes , Steven Rosenfeld, 21 Feb 2013, AlterNet

Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition , Kyle Edwards, 21 Jan 2013, University of Oxford

Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia , Alan Zarembo, 14 Jan 2013, LA Times

The Science of Sex Abuse , Rachel Aviv, 14 Jan 2013, The New Yorker

Paedophilia: Bringing Dark Desires To Light , Jon Henley, 2 Jan 2013, The Guardian

Why we must talk about Britten’s boys , Martin Kettle, 21 Dec 2012, The Guardian

Sandusky Will Die in Prison , Fred Berlin, 9 Oct 2012, Vice

How Can We Stop Pedophiles? Stop treating them like monsters , Jennifer Bleyer, 24 Sep 2012, slate.com

Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children , Cord Jefferson, 7 Sep 2012, gawker.com

Meet pedophiles who mean well: The men behind VirtuousPedophiles.com are attracted to children but devoted to denying their desires , Tracy Clarke-Flory, 30 Jun 2012, Salon.com

It’s easy to demonise paedophiles. But it’s not the answer , Stan Ruszczynski, 24 Aug 2008, The Guardian

Boy Crazy (about how the early pro-contact organizations created a backlash for pedophiles in general) , Benoit Denizet-Lewis, 15 May 2006, Boston Magazine