I'll try to keep it fairly short...

because you asked for simple answers, not our entire philosophy about this stuff. So maybe this won't be too tl;dl =)

First off, I hope you're not afraid to stick around and even register to post if you want to. I'm sorry you feel scared that people like the posters here exist, but isn't it better to have us in the open here and to have some dialogue, rather than having us, I dunno, hiding behind a bush or something? ;-)

I'd echo everyone else here in saying that I'm sorry about the things that happened to you as a kid. I'd also agree with a few other posters who've said that the men who approached you might not have been pedophiles at all, particularly the guy who said he could just as well find some hooker. That sounds like some sleazebag, not someone who's primarily attracted to younger girls. One thing that you'll find out about people like the posters here is that our attraction to young girls has an emotional element; we like for them to be happy, and making them scared or uncomfortable is the last thing we want to do. We're more likely to be the guy you know giving piggy back rides who's "good with kids" than the guy trying to convince some scared little girl to get into the back of his van.

As for kids not understanding sex, I think everyone has an innate understanding of it. Kids often "play doctor" with each other and experiment. Is it that they don't "understand" sex, or that they simply don't have all the hang-ups about it that adults do? Kids understand what's fun and what feels good and what they like, and they understand what they don't like. That's something very basic.

Our fear of kids and sex has gotten to the point now that young people have actually been arrested and branded as sex offenders in the making for simple "playing doctor" type experimentation among themselves. Is this a viewpoint that truly has anything to do with protecting kids, or is it simply an anti-sex viewpoint? Sorry if this question makes you blush, but to be perfectly blunt, was is it that we're so afraid of about orgasms?

Of course, we all agree that we should obey the law, because there could be major consequences both for ourselves and our young friends in terms of the reactions to what happens. And a young girl being told that she's been victimized and hurt for something she might've very well enthusiastically participated in is something that DOES have the potential to confuse and hurt people.

So we can abide by society's laws, but that doesn't mean we buy into all the so-called logic behind them.

As for why I'm personally attracted to young girls, I simply find them physically very beautiful. I think they have lovely little forms and beautiful, expressive faces. I like that they don't take things too seriously, that they're generally not afraid to be goofy and silly have a good time. You can get into all kinds of fun nonsense with them, and I think there's also a lot of worth to the way they see the world, if you bother really giving them the time of day and respect their thoughts and feelings as the thoughts and feelings of fellow human beings rather than talking down to them.

I think I've already answered about everything else. I'm pretty much exclusively attracted to young girls; I'm not gay, and women simply don't have the appeal to me that young girls do. In fact, I distinctly remember dreading the feeling of getting older when I was in high school (I'm in my 20s now), because I knew I was different, and I found myself being attracted less and less to girls my own age.

Anyway, hope you'll stick around, or that you'll at least find those other "girllover" websites you were looking for ;-)