Scoundrel on Nostr: Woah, pro-abuse? Please read my responses carefully, can you find somewhere I ...

Woah, pro-abuse? Please read my responses carefully, can you find somewhere I actually said I was pro-abuse? My actual intent was to say that the victim should be the primary individual responsible for fighting their own abuse and for giving others the opportunity to fight their abuse. If the victim is unwilling to seize independence themselves, (which happens far too often) then any attempt to fix their life for them is stupid.

I'm glad to hear that you find the random pedo accusations irritating too, though it didn't slip past me that you were making pedo accusations yourself. Also, why do you say that I'm transphobic? I've been specifically trying to avoid saying anything transphobic so far.

If I was in your shoes I would be more forgiving of people looking for a link between the two. Anecdotally, I am Nostr friends with a nonbinary pedophile and I'm following a transgender "MAP ally". I also hear there's a lot of statistics correlating mental illnesses like pedophilia with mental illnesses like homosexuality and gender dysphoria.

It's cool to hear that you are interested in extreme privacy stuff. While browsing .onion sites myself I never saw any therapy ads besides the obligatory "stop it, get some help" messages sending you to some useless clearnet website. I did come across a darknet "confessional" site though. You could see all the previous confessions and all the responses to them. "Oops! I went and watched child porn again! Father, you have to help me! What should I do?" "Uh, that's really bad. God says for you to stop watching child porn. And after that, make sure to pray for guidance and you will have God's forgiveness..." To me, the whole situation seemed really pathetic. Neither party seemed to have any real insight into the sin itself. But that's just what I got out of it anyway.

Due to the technical limitations of Tor, I strongly suspect that any therapy offered would be limited to text chat, and I also suspect that the "therapist" would be like, one guy who may or may not have a degree. If that's the extent of what counts as therapy then I might as well just talk with a therapist over email, or enter the DMs of some random therapist on Nostr and pay them in zaps.

I don't think your characterization of me as being "unable to seek the treatment that I need" makes a lot of sense. It's not as if I'm some amoral creature lacking any sort of autonomy. I am perfectly capable of seeking treatment, I am just intentionally choosing not to in order to avoid a little bit of risk. Additionally, I don't know what exactly this "treatment" is supposed to do. Therapy is literally just talking with someone. It's not as if words between two people is going to suddenly make every child on Earth unattractive. The biggest reason I take the possibility of therapy seriously is because I just really like talking with people in general.

Thanks for the Youtuber recommendation. Personally, I watch a lot of stuff from MentalOutlaw. He's a funny guy and he has a lot of interesting videos about info-sec and software security in general. The only thing that puts me off about him is that he is fairly open about his support of piracy, and I believe thay piracy is wrong. I believe that if someone enjoys a piece of media, then they should be willing to pay or support the publisher the way the publisher expects them to.