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A SELF-CONFESSED paedophile in the US has begged for society’s acceptance and understanding when it comes to helping him, and others like him, battle their urges.
In a highly-controversial opinion piece for salon.com, Tennessee native Todd Nickerson claims that he has never acted on his urges and never will.
“I’ve been stuck with the most unfortunate of sexual orientations, a preference for a group of people who are legally, morally and psychologically unable to reciprocate my feelings and desires,” he writes.
It’s a curse of the first order, a completely unworkable sexuality, and it’s mine.
Nickerson, who was born without a right hand and was sexually molested as a seven-year-old, claims in the piece (titled ‘I’m a paedophile, not a monster’) that his sexuality has ruined any chance he has of having a normal life.
He clarifies that a paedophile is not someone who molests children, but rather someone who is sexually attracted to juveniles, regardless of his or her actions.
Nickerson claims he was targeted by a group heavily involved in the production of the show To Catch a Predator, known as Perverted Justice, who profiled him on their online exposure page despite the fact he had never offended.
He claims that since that incident his life has improved marginally. However he still lives below the poverty line, working as a graphic designer in a conservative southern state.
Finding a group known as Virtuous Paedophiles (Virped), consisting of similarly-minded anti-contacters (ie those who specifically ignore their urges), is what Nickerson credits with turning his life around.
“I really can’t praise this organization enough. It’s been a lifesaver for me. I still get depressed and anxious sometimes, but I’m improving. I feel better about myself and a little more hopeful about my future these days,” he writes.
For those who are lucky enough to be able to form working relationships with adults, there are a new set of concerns: What if we have children? Will I be a threat to them? Can I ever share this fact with my spouse? Can I ever love and want her as much as I do a child?
So, please, be understanding and supportive. Treat us like people with a massive handicap we must overcome, not as a monster. If we are going to make it in the world without offending, we need your help.
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Number 8 is lucky in china… Obviously ads don’t work all the time ;-)
Number 9 is the most sought after number for people of Chinese extraction in Thailand,as 9 is the luckiest of all Chinese numbers.
It’s Lord Green, not Brown.
Quite right!
To maintain stability fiat currency systems require constant monetary expansion. To facilate constant monetary expansion bankers need a constantly expanding portfolio of products and enterprises to invest in. Initially, they can invest in proprietary areas, but ultimately end up investing in dodgy derivatives and Mexican banks. Where possible politicans, central bankers and regulators will turn a blind eye.
” Today’s worldwide paper-, or “fiat-,” money regime is an economically and socially destructive scheme — with far-reaching and seriously harmful economic and societal consequences, effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine.
Fiat money is inflationary; it benefits a few at the expense of many others; it causes boom-and-bust cycles; it leads to overindebtedness; it corrupts society’s morals; and it will ultimately end in a depression on a grand scale.”
Thorsten Pollet
More Capitalism corruption.
“Religion is the only thing that keeps the poor from killing the rich.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Is Prince Hamley a new character in a Toy story movie?
Nick…..You forgot to mention that, Lord Brown, the current UK Trade Minister was chairman of HSBC when all this was happening.nAs an aside…..you’ve got a typo…..Hamley…….Hamlet?n@clonbrusk
Jaysus what next!?
By the time my grandson is 40, there will be a world of over 10 Billion people. Is Market capitalism really the most appropriate system for such an immense amount of people? Surely this system will lead only to wars, disease, famine…the horsemen of the apocalypse….. When shall we start thinking of a new system to protect and not destroy humanity?
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