I did volunteer work for several years at an emergency shelter for children. I learned two important things there:
The results of child sexual/physical abuse are so incredibly heartbreaking that even the adult counselors and therapists that are helping those kids are affected. They, the adults who hear the kids’ stories, sometimes wind up in depression because of the horrors they’re hearing about every day. Not to mention the kids that have been betrayed, oftentimes, by the very people they should be able to trust above all others…their family members. I’ve heard their stories and seen the actual scars. Those memories still hurt today.
Children are amazingly resilient. Even after suffering through abuse that would seem to me to be insurmountable, many of them do get past it and and are able to start growing and flourishing again…as long as they’re getting the help and maintenance they require. I believe that, if an adult were to experience the same type of abuse as those kids, if it was coupled with the guilt and helplessness that the kids often feel, the adult wouldn’t be able to handle it.
I’ve also seen instances of the children being released from the shelter back to the people who perpetrated the abuse after those adults had completed some kind of therapy program.
People…listen up here…Talk therapy often will not have any positive effect on pedophiles. It’s my belief that there is usually something organically wrong with them, and that it something that talk therapy cannot correct. The only things that I’ve seen that are efficacious are medication or incarceration. I don’t have any personal experience in seeing the effect of castration on an abuser, so I can’t comment on that, other than to say I’d be in favor of it–just for general purposes even if not for therapeutic reasons.
One last thing…to Konrad:
Oh, yeah, real funny. I don’t draw too many lines as far as humor goes, but pedophilia is simply not joke material. I’m so pissed off about your idiotic statement that it’s hard to maintain the decorum that’s required here. Stay away from my son, you fuck. I don’t know who you are IRL, but your stupidity, thoughtlessness and just plain repulsiveness would give you away. Also, I just added your name to a short list of people that I will not have any further truck with. If you were trying to piss me off, you did. Happy, scumworm?
You know, folks, it’s still possible to commit a sexual assault after being castrated. Sexual orientation originates in the brain, not in the testicles.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
Who’s really sick? The person who writes “We should kill all people that do X” or the person who makes fun of him?
Really, what’s wrong with you people? You think it’s perfectly alright to make serious death threats but not OK to joke about a person who wrote “sexily abused”.
And really, what kind of a dumb topic is this? Let’s make a topic called “Nazi child-murdering satan-worshippers are evil”.
Right, what was I thinking? This is obviously a serious person with a serious concern. You know when someone only has 5 posts and one of them is “All baby rapers should die!” that it is obviously not a troll. After all, a troll is someone who is only looking for attention. (This may come as a surprise to some people. Yes, that’s right, troll is not just an all-purpose insult like idiot or twat.)
This person obviously has a serious concern. You can’t even go outside anymore without baby rapers ruining it, raping babies left and right.
Now let us all nod our heads gravely in unison with a serious look in our eyes, to show what concerned and morally-upstanding people we are. With a serious subject matter like this there’s no room for reason and logic. MOJO LIZARD is against baby rapers, therefore anyone who does not give full agreement to what he says is obviously for raping babies.
Come on! All together now! Let’s all join in and condemn baby raping! If you don’t do it you’re a baby raper!
I’m going to go start a thread about how nazi satan-worshipping serial-murderers should have a permanent sign stamped on their forehead to identify them as such. In fact, anyone who even talks about being a serial-murderer should get the sign. And if any of you show any lack of respect towards this, you’re a nazi, satan-worshipping serial -murderer!
Some people are trolls. We all know what trolls want more than anything else. Attention. Positive/Negative/Whatever. They don’t care. Suck my ass, you little sad troll.
Ayesha and all other victims of sexual abuse, my heart goes out to you. Hug yourself for me and tell yourself again that it was never your fault.
I’ll add my voice to the others. Parents, listen.
Teach your child about honesty.
Teach your child about bad touching.
Then believe your child.
Believe your child.
Believe your child.
Wally, that doesn’t mean I think they should be executed. It means I think they should be removed from EVER having contact with children in any way, shape or form again.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
Phil - I was with you 100%, all the way up to that last post. I ask in all seriousness - is there no way to rehabilitate one who is a criminal pedophile? If not rehabilitate, then control the urges?
“…removed from EVER having contact with children in any way, shape or form again” indicates, to me, life in prison with no parole, no access to the common areas or visiting rooms, and probably no outdoor activity of any kind. I’ve never heard you advocate such punishment before.
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
If there were some way to control the urges of pedophiles that would not otherwise affect their ability to operate as a normal human being, then I’d say “Go for it.” Unfortunately, AFAIK, pedophilia, as an orientation, is as hardwired as heterosexuality and homosexuality. Pedophiles will continue to seek children for their sexual gratification.
The only way to make sure such people don’t molest children is to make sure they never encounter children again. IMO, anyway.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
What Canthearya said. Can’t say it any better myself.
Dr. J: I think pldennison is right on this one. Most pedophiles and sexual abusers were sexually abused themselves as children, and have an overwhelming desire to perpetrate that abuse upon others.
IIRC, part of the reason Megan’s Law (that a neighborhood should be notified when a convicted child molester moves in) is allowable by the Constitution is because the system cannot promise reform.
Of course, these are just opinions and theories two steps above a WAG, so take them where you will.
And Konrad? You have a history of outlandish and asinine statements that you stand by as your ‘truth.’ With that record, I’m not surprised that people weren’t able to denote the sarcasm in your post. Besides, if you’re planning to use sarcasm, be sarcastic and exaggerative of the part of the statement that gets your goat, not the statement in toto. Otherwise you look like an idiot.
Oh, sorry- you already were one. My mistake.
JMCJ
“John C., it looks like you have blended in very nicely.”
-UncleBeer
Phil,
I agree with you that the urge to pedophilia, from all accounts I’ve read, is organic and intrinsic to the individual. However, I also believe that it is possible for individuals to lead celibate lives. I know of no easy answer to this question, and there are few crimes more heinous than pedarast, but “eternal banishment from society” pretty much assumes that rehabilitation is impossible.
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I would like to meet up with you some day.
You better hope I don’t.
So I only have 5 posts.
I don’t have all day to sit at the computer.
I have a family to take care of.
My next post will be, how to deal with
people like you.
I don’t let people like you get me down,
I put them down , 6 Feet down!
Say, now let’s see how many of you people take on Mojo Lizard’s apparent actual death threat. Sit back and watch as the hypocrisy flows thicker than the maple syrup at tapping time.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
I wouldn’t really wast my time on him.
There are some people out there that live
close to him that will take him down.
One way or the other.
I can only dream what might happen to him.
He’ll burn in hell of his own doing. This is definitely not a topic to be joked about and this only once again goes to prove what a sick person he truly is. I see the results of pathetic Konrad’s of the world every day at work and I’d love to string someone up for each of one of those kids.
Have a reaaaaaaaaal nice day Konrad
A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out…there are Angels among us
This is insane. People who TALK about having sex with children should be killed? Someone makes a tasteless comment (that I thought was abundantly and clearly satirical) and is now being physically threatened and people are siding with the person doling out the threats?
I don’t believe there is anything so repugnant or dangerous that it can’t be TALKED about. That’s been demonstrated by Ayesha and others who’ve opened up about their own horrible experiences. Death threats to people who are insensitive to the horrors of pedophilia are almost as sickening as pedophilia itself. Get some perspective.
And Mojo? If you’re serious about your threats to Konrad, you should get some professional help because you clearly have some issues you need to work through.
As I said , I am not going to do a thing to him.
Other people out there who know him will.
I did my part to bring one of the durt bags
out into the open. We all know about Konrad
now.
I don’t want my tax money going to feeding
him in jail.
Put him and people like him in the town square. Tie them up. Let the People of that
town deal with them.