Crap.
I hate replying to threads that have become about insulting each other. I feel like I'm participating in it. But I guess I'm going to offer my two cents anyhow.
Firstly, I kinda understand the compulsion of a child abuser... kinda. I have found myself occasionally attracted to children. I have more often found myself attracted to women, and to men too. The BIG difference is that I would absolutely never abuse a child. Any attraction I felt, I could never act on. Not in any way, any shape or form. (What goes on in the privacy of my own mind, of course, is my business.) Even imagining a sexual encounter with a child, I can't imagine hurting them.
I have written stories, and am writing a story involving children and sexual situations, but I would never extend those thoughts into reality. There is a VERY clear dividing line between imagination and action. I could write a story about a bank robbery and someone getting shot, but that doesn't mean I'm going to buy a gun and rob a bank.
In that same way, I might write about someone being attracted to a child and seeking a sexual encounter, but you will never find me stalking children on a playground. My mind rejects the reality of something like that outright.
It is one thing to imagine something, and a completely different thing to act on it.
Yes, this site is about castration. Yes, a lot of the stories held in the archive are about non-consensual castration of minors. This does not mean any of us who write or enjoy those stories would accept it if we saw this happen in reality.
What Lanford did makes me physically sick. It should make any right thinking person ill.
Do Lanford and your ex co-worker need help. Yes. In a just society, reformation should be part of their sentence. Do I personally think they deserve it. No. Once you harm a child, the damage can never be undone. Stolen property can be replaced, wounds can heal, but once you cross the line into reality, and destroy a child's innocence, that bell can never be un-rung. You've destroyed a person's identity and damaged their future. In my mind it is as vile as murder.
If you want sympathy for your friend and people like him, there are many other places on the web to find it. The Eunuch Archive is not the place. This is a forum about consensual castration among adults. The Stories are a fantasy. An exercise in expelling demons. The stories are not a How-To-Manual.
There are plenty of sites dedicated to Harry Potter fan-fiction too. No one expects the people who read or write HP fiction to be in reality performing Satanic rituals, trying to be granted unnatural powers. If you told someone on those fan site forums that you were trying to cast "real magic" in the real world, you'd be ridiculed and berated mercilessly. What interests us in fiction does not translate to the real world.
I like the stories of Conan the Barbarian too. Somehow I restrain myself from wearing a loincloth and breaking into my neighbors house brandishing a sword. (Though when he blares his music at 3am, I am sorely tempted.)
Long story short. Just because we have a theme around here, don't expect us to support someone trying to castrate a child. We do not condone child abuse in reality. We don't want to be associated with people who do.
It doesn't sound like you've ever crossed that line. That you stand by a friend when he has done the unthinkable, tells me you are a good person. Stick around and get to know us. You'll see we're good people too.
nickb:
nickb (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:53 pm
I know eunuch.org focuses on consensual castrations, etc, but the things you've said about Landford could also be said about those who would like to be castrated.
As for people who desire castration for ourselves being similar to child abusers I have to completely disagree. It may be something that started for us in childhood, but we never wish it on another. Only ourselves. Associating someone who wants control over their own body with someone who wants to dominate another is completely off the mark. It is insulting and demeaning. If you spend some time conversing with some of the people on this site, you'll see what I mean. A better group of kind hearted, honest and lovel
nickb (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:39 pm
y people you couldn't ask for.
If you think we are "a b
unch of insular, cloistered, self-centered, assholes." for expressing revulsion at the deeds of a monster, then you truly do not know us.
