Ethan Edwards, a man in his mid-50s, last year confided his deepest secret to a close friend: that he was a pedophile.

"He's happy to keep my secret," Edwards wrote in an online chat with CBC News, too fearful of vigilantes to give out his phone number. But he says his friend now feels infected by his secret.

Edwards, a pseudonym, only realized he was attracted to young girls a few years ago. He says he's never acted on it.

So what happened? Did he suddently drop 10 IQ points and become left handed?

Now, he's devoting his energy to helping others ensure they, too, never victimize a child.

Yes by spamming boards with his annoying urgent reminders.

The 330-member group, which is designed to help admitted pedophiles talk through their conditions and curb their desires, is completely anonymous. He's never even spoken on the phone with his co-founder, Nick Devin (also a pseudonym).

If everything is anonymous then it is impossible to say how many people are in the group. I could easily create 50 different screennames and if it's anonymous you couldn't be sure if they were all the same person. (And I thought we were the ones who were suppose to have the low I.Qs.)

"Our prime goal in creating it was probably more the public relations aspect regarding the public. To help people see that we're not all molesters," said Edwards. "But along with that was also a desire to help the pedophiles who qualified."

And in order to qualify you must kiss Ethan's old hairy ass.

The website is a rare spot where pedophiles can acknowledge their problem and seek help to keep their impulses under control, without fear of being exposed to a world where hysteria about child molesters can cloud any understanding of and research into the problem of pedophilia.

I have no problem with my pedophilia. My problem is the people who treat it as a problem.

Of course, not everyone agrees with its purpose.

Oh good, finally they're going to mention us...

The Virginia-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, for example, fears that sites like Virtuous Pedophiles operate merely under the guise of helping pedophiles remain celibate, but instead enable them to trade tips and tricks on how to groom children for sexual purposes.

Are you fucking kidding me? Is this the new dumb and dumber movie that is suppose to coming out?

And Pope Francis recently waded into the controversy of pedophilia in the Catholic Church when he estimated that two per cent or roughly 8,000 of the church's 400,000 or so clergy were pedophiles. He went on to describe child abusers as a "leprosy" within the church.

There was no problem of pedophilia in the church. Most of these so-called "victims" were above the age of puberty. It was more of a "gay problem" if you care to be more accurate.

In Cantor's work, he scans the brains of pedophiles. Among his findings is that they tend to have IQs that are 10 points lower than the average person, plus lower memory scores.

Funny how Cantor seems to be the only "scientist" who gets mentioned behind this research. Where is the scientific consensus? Doesn't seem to have any.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/virtuous-pedophiles-group-gives-support-therapy-cannot-1.2710160