Why? Why do you go out of your way to make our lives, hard enough as they are with all the stigmatization, even harder? What do you gain from it? We did not choose to be who we are. Neither of us did. The torture of being unable (morally and legally) to satisfy our lusts is a burden we bear involuntarily from the very day of realizing our ailment.

We account for approximately one percent of humanity. That may not seem like much. But in your friend group of ten people, there is a ten percent chance of there being one of us. Your class of 30? One third chance that one of them is a pedophile now.

We are not the monsters you think us to be. The vast majority of us is not, anyways. The rapists that committed heinous acts of child abuse are a minority of us, and many of them are not even pedophiles. We are your coworkers, maybe even your friends or family. We are normal people with normal lives. Normal jobs. Normal friends. Normal homes. Normal problems. The only distinction between you and us is that when you go and fap to porn, we, unable to sate our desires off of porn or real sexual contact, turn to our fantasy.

Please, stop the hate. Stop the constant stream of death threats. We are humans, just like you, going through normal human lives. I do not demand legalizing sexual contact with children. That is a step that should be very carefully thought out, not just taken willy-nilly. This is not the place, now is not the time. I ask for much less. Please, just accept us as humans. Normal, functioning members of society. The vast majority of us did nothing wrong. Please.