Salon writer admits he's a pedophile

Salon writer Todd Nickerson has released a video in which he admits his love for a 5-year-old girl and why he thinks it’s justified.
The three minute video begins with Nickerson describing how he first fell in love with a child he babysat when he was 18.

“I remember looking up and just seeing her and just going… ‘Wow, she’s beautiful,'” Nickerson explains. “I knew I was in deep, I had fallen for the girl.”

He goes on to explain that he never hurt the girl. Todd mentions that a lot of his fantasies revolve around young girls that are more powerful than himself and that his breaking point came when he would have to excuse himself while babysitting to masturbate in the bathroom. He left town shortly after to “get his head straightened out.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...odd-nickerson-on-pedophilia-im-not-a-monster/


Salon is an ultra-liberal news/current affairs/opinion website, often quoted here.

This is the kind of garbage that writes for them.

 

So, besides the old tried and true conservative pastime of bashing some guy who has done nothing but have THOUGHTS you disapprove of, just what is your point here?.

 

And so it begins, the fight for pedophile rights. Lol dear god are there any boundaries?

Next thing we are going to hear is keeping your kid away from an adult who has a hard on for your 6 year old is being a bigot lol.

 

I don't see anything wrong with trying to make it more acceptable for pedophiles to self identify and get help. This may even lead to confessions, which may help the victims who are often told their early memories are false.

I didn't read anything in this article about accepting pedophile predatory behavior, or leaving admitted pedophiles alone with children. Its more about them accepting they have a problem and learning to control themselves. Sort of like drug addiction or alcoholism, admitting you have a problem is the first step.

 

Well, instead of him "trying to control his urges", shouldn't he seek professional help before he ruins an innocent child's life?

 

Ped means children. Phile means love. I love children.
Get a better word for those who rape them. Get a better word for those who molest them.
Of course 5 year olds are beautiful. They haven't scarred their knees or ankles yet, grown warts, developed age spots, put spikes in their eyebrows or ugly tattoos on their beautiful skin. They don't have adult teeth that grew in crooked, developed callouses from hard work or punctured their arms with hypodermic needles. That's the time to teach them about the things that make a body ugly so they never start on those destructive behaviors.
What's wrong is that pour society endorses animal lust and sex with children one day past an arbitrary age barrier when we're supposed to find the most perfect young specimen available and labor for years to earn her approval before a monogamous marriage.

 

Who ever said 'he' shouldn't?

 

How sickening...

Do you actually think he is typical of the Salon writers??

 

How is he not? Its hardly their first article on the matter.

 

Salon has published several articles hoping to paint pedophiles as just poor oppressed victims, using the same arguments used by the Gay Privilege hoaxers, who in turn provided NAMBLA with a political pulpit and allowed them to set the 'age of consent' policy or their 'movement', so it's only natural their rags like Salon would be enthusiastic about promoting them as 'normal' and 'victims of evul irrational Xian Hatred n Stuff'.

The ILGA made a big show of expelling NAMBLA in 1994, after some 20 years as proud members of the 'Rainbow Coalition', because of the bad publicity Jesse Helms heaped on them that forced Bill Clinton to deny endorsing them for NGO status at the UN, but otherwise they have a permanent home in the homosexual 'movement', no matter how many times they get investigated and arrested for what they are, a front for selling kiddie porn and kiddie prostitution gang. About 10% of the ILGA members present voted against expelling them, by the way, and none of the speakers for expelling them did so out of empathy for children, they just concerned themselves with how the publicity made them look bad; it was just about PR for them, not any particular 'bias' against kiddie raping.

 

Normal type of attack where you characterize an entire group by picking one person and then claiming that persons behavior represents the entire group. Now lets talk about how Dennis Hastert, who is a convicted pedophile, is typical of all Republicans.

 

Ah, but they're 'born that way' n stuff, according to 'science', you know ...

 

Is it any big surprise?

After Nickerson made his 'announcement', I'm sure all the Salon personnel got together with Nickerson for one big group hug.

 

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*), this article is not advocating that pedophiles be allowed to ACT on their urges.

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Yes and please show where the article or anyone else at Salon is advocating he be allowed to act on his urges?

 

It's coming. And it will be the left that brings it based around the avenue I already gave you. You cannot base laws around intangibles like feelings, or it opens the door to things like this.

Stories like this are simply the trial balloons.

 

Exactly. Quoted for truth.

 

No it's not, but then folks like you are always looking for another boogyman to fearmonger over when there isn't one.

 

Wow, so close to being a substantive OP.

Unfortunately, you cited Breitbart's ridiculously slanted description of the article, rather than linking to the article itself:
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/im_a_pedophile_but_not_a_monster/

If you read that article, you'll see that he is not claiming "I was born this way." He specifically attributes his pedophilia to having been sexually abused as a child. Whether that's accurate or not, I don't know -- I see no reason why this sort of thing can't be innate as well as learned. But he's not claiming any sort of innate status.

He's not asking for acceptance of pedophilia -- indeed, his entire article acknowledges that pedophilia is wrong.

All he's saying is "I have these strong, inappropriate sexual urges that I work hard to control. I am not a bad person, anymore than someone else with mental illness is a bad person."

Not exactly a dramatic or sensational claim.

He is not "garbage" -- he is a person with a problem.

And then you go off the rails and basically say he is somehow representative of Salon. That's just lame guilt-by-association slander. It fails even the most basic logic test.

Tangentially, conservatives always seem to misunderstand many of the arguments used against them.

For instance, another poster in this thread suggests that just because someone is "born this way", we must accept them acting on that behavior, regardless of what it is.

This is false: we do not accept psychopaths acting on their behavior, for instance, even if they are born that way.

That poster is obviously referring to the fight over homosexuality, which at times revolved around whether being gay was "innate" or a choice. but that totally misrepresents that argument, on at least two levels:

-- The "it's a choice" argument was created by anti-gay activists. Their logic: if it's a choice, it's not deserving of civil-rights protection. So it had to be addressed in order to rebut that argument.
-- Homosexual activity involves free will between consenting adults. It is not like pedophilia, which by definition does not involve consenting adults.

The idea that "this argument applies in Case A, so it must apply in all cases" is a common conservative idea, and one that is completely wrong.

 

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I'm almost temped to post a (long) list of conservatives busted for pedophilia but it would do nothing to elevate this already trashy thread.

 

More fearmongering not surprised. I do find it funny the people that think of gay sex, molestation, etc. the most tend to be conservatives.

 

Perhaps find people defending them as this article suggests we should...

Go for it.

 

Not only did you not connect the dots, you leap frogged over logic.

 

Sure thing.
Heres his statement.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...odd-nickerson-on-pedophilia-im-not-a-monster/

I also havent gotten any hits when i search for this guy being fired lol....big surprise. Almost as if it's not a big deal.

 

Middle ground as in people not being violent towards him if he doesn't act on his urges. Again, you cons see sex everywhere even when there isn't.

 

Who is being violent to him?

Why do you insist on calling me a con and making this personal?