The Harper government recently announced tougher measures against child predators, including a public sex offender registry. Seto says this is misguided, given that the recidivism rate for convicted sex offenders is actually quite low, at about 10 to 15 per cent.

“One of the worries would be that would further drive individuals underground,” he says. “It could also lead to problems that decrease the likelihood they can successfully be integrated.”

snip: http://i.imgur.com/Xvb8wU8.jpg source: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/12/22/is_pedophilia_a_sexual_orientation.html

Hey. Familiar name...

http://i.imgur.com/caRPksf.jpg

source: https://www.wearethorn.org/about-our-fight-against-sexual-exploitation-of-children/

Update:more interesting views from someone allegedly trying to fight cp

Seto compared the child porn debate to watching adult porn.

“For the large majority of people, watching explicit or violent porn doesn’t actually have real life negative effects,” he said. Studies have found that exposing research subjects to violent porn doesn’t change their attitudes toward women or sexual assault, though results might be different for people who specifically seek out violent porn. “But for people with other risk factors, it can become an aggravating factor. It can become agitating instead of satisfying.”

Seto told me that personally, he falls in the camp of believing that the idea of virtual sex with children doesn’t inherently cause any real world damage. He views the potential harms as too hypothetical, rooted more in our inability to view the situation with logic and empathy than anything else.

“Without allowing options like virtual sex, we’re basically saying you can’t have any kind of sexuality,” he said. “We are saying ‘Don’t have feelings, don’t have desires, just eliminate it,’ and I don’t think that’s realistic."

http://i.imgur.com/uEwafhu.jpg source: http://fusion.net/story/262195/child-sex-doll-legality/

PIE

Thomas Victor O'Carroll (born 8 August 1945) is a British writer (with dual Irish/British nationality),[1] pro-paedophile advocate, and convicted and imprisoned for the distributor of child pornography.[2][3] O'Carroll is a former chairman of the now disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of the International Paedophile and Child Emancipation (now known as Ipce).

O'Carroll brought this review in draft form to the attention of leading academics on a specialist online forum in December 2011, together with his views on a journal article by feminist philosopher Claudia Card. The forum, with access by invitation only, comprises nearly 400 scholars, mainly specialist academic researchers and clinicians in sex-related fields. A day of so later one of those academics, **Michael Seto, author of the most authoritative recent book on paedophilia (Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention, published in 2007 by the American Psychological Association) posted to express his appreciation of O'Carroll's "informative and thoughtful posts" over a sustained period. This could be seen as significant given that Seto is a leading world expert in, effectively, combating child sexual abuse. Unsurprisingly, Seto added that he and O'Carroll "may not agree on any number of points, but ..." The review is to be submitted for publication in Culture and Sexuality. ** http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tom_O%27Carroll_Biography