I went to an exhibition a few years back with pictures from ordinary magazines from the 70'ies full of pictures of naked children, all having fun. The whole point with the exhibition was to show that in the 70'ies pictures of naked children was assumed not to excite anybody sexually, so it didn't create a stir of any kind. They where just beautiful.

A friend of my parents, (who was an artist) in the 70'ies had pictures on the theme of Swedish summer on his walls at home. One of the pictures was of a giggling blond maybe 5 year old in nothing but yellow wellingtons. Nobody suspected him of paedophilia, and he wasn't/isn't. I still remember the picture. It was a great picture.

How did we end up in this mess? A situation where people think its wrong to find naked children beautiful? They are.

I've never had even a remote stir in my penis around anything younger than late teens. I overcame my sexual repressions a long time ago and I'm good at listening to what my penis wants. And this ain't it. Call me naive, but I think paedophilia is so extremely rare it's nothing we should get worried about. Sure, I'm only using myself as a measuring stick. But I think the world has gone off the bend here. I worry more about paedophilia witch-hunters on crusades to rid the world of its evils, rather than the paedophiles themselves. I've read a few blogs by Swedish self-proclaimed protectors of children. It's scary shit. I'm worried about our freedoms of speech eroding in the name of protecting our children.

I wouldn't be surprised if paedophiles are the result of sexual repression, as so much else. A bit like, if people fear their own sexuality and what other people will think, they might look for sexual partners who aren't in a position to judge them. So basically, maybe this is another one of those problems we make go away by just being more liberal and encouraging people around us to sleep around more.