Did an anti-paedophile thread bring the police to Ceri Black's door?
Northern Ireland police are trying to shut down an abuse survivor who is also an expert on child safeguarding
Ceri Black is a survivor of child sexual abuse and like many with that experience behind them has devoted a significant part of her life to ensuring that more children escape what she endured. On the 10th of July last year, she wrote a thread about how paedophiles and their enablers attempt to normalise sexual relations with children. The thread is reproduced below.
I have had this thread in my head for a while and I don’t want it there any longer. I don’t give trigger warnings, but this one is no fun. Welcome to “sh*t paedophiles and paedophile enablers say, and what they really mean.” A thread.
“Even if I don’t get to abuse a child, I’ll be ‘getting her ready’ for the next guy.” Translation: I’m playing the long game, and I have a sense of kinship with other paedophiles, I regard myself as acting to benefit my peers.”
Further Translation: I am fully aware that in order to abuse children, they require a series of boundary violations to make them pliable and vulnerable to abuse, and I am more than willing to do this, even though I will not benefit directly from them.
“I know of children who were abused, who were not damaged from it in the long term.” (See T*tchell) Translation: I have an interest in making it look like CSA doesn’t harm children, either because I am an abuser, or because I enable and excuse abuse.
“Children can consent to many things (and therefore, potentially, to sex.)” (See that Chu guy) Translation: I am pretending not to know about the power dynamics between adults and children, and how adults can get children to agree to almost anything.
Further translation: I do not care that children whose “consent” is manufactured in this way may torture themselves for the whole of their lives about the way that “giving consent” made them feel complicit in their own abuse.
"They had boy lovers in Ancient Greece. Pindar wrote about a... boy, Theoxenus... in whose arms he is said to have died in the theater at Argos. He once wrote of himself, "I, like wax of the sacred bees when smitten by the sun, am melted when I look at the young limbs of boys."
That's from the NAMBLA website. They do not, however, mention the likely feelings that Theoxenus had about his hairy ars*d patron. I doubt, however, that he melted like wax when looking at the old, wrinkled b*llsack of his patron, Pindar. Theoxenus' view is absent completely.
Cultural relativism is one thing. Saying "because this existed in societies throughout history, it is necessarily moral" is just mental. This would excuse slavery, genital mutilation, a bunch of things that are not "normal," desirable or optimal to human flourishing.
One of the worst things that paedophiles do to try to justify and excuse CSA is to "normalise" it. It gets a bit wild from here on in, so if you're still with me, just steel yourself for this next bit. This is where we get to academic justifications for CSA.
Brongersma wrote: “sexual attraction to youthful individuals of his own sex is present to a greater or lesser degree in every human male, and this makes it possible for every man to have sex with a handsome boy.” He really wrote that.
Translation: I am trying to normalise my abuse of children in your eyes, and share my shame with you. I am calling you repressed and a prude because you do not want to abuse children. I am trying to groom you into accepting CSA as normal.
This next one is what I think about if I ever waver in my commitment to protecting my children. My son is thirteen and this chilled my blood. This is a letter, published by NAMBLA, purporting to be a letter from a 13-year-old boy.
“I am a boy of 13, and I hope you will read this letter. The spelling and stuff isn’t too good… I wish I was one of the kids with someone to love me like that.” Translation: (If this letter IS from a 13yo): "Please protect me, I have already been groomed and am vulnerable."
If this was, as I suspect, written by an adult paedophile, the translation is equally simple. Translation: "I have a sexual fantasy regarding 13 year old boys which I have justified to myself. I am very dangerous and need to be kept as far from children as possible."
Maybe this one is worse. “NAMBLA… is strongly opposed to age of consent laws and other restrictions which deny adults and youth the full enjoyment of their bodies and control over their lives.”
Translation: I have justified the sexual abuse of children to such a degree in my mind that I now want to change the way society thinks about it, to normalise it, and to band with others to groom society and get access to vulnerable children.
There is a very long and rich seam of horrific things that various paedophile organisations have advocated for. The Children’s Sensuality Circle have advocated for the m*sturbation of babies and very young children by their family.
Rene Guyon Society say “s*x before 8 or else it’s too late” and suggest that a 4 year old child can “comfortably accommodate an adult male’s p*nis.” I’m not going to go any further down that rabbit hole, but the depravity of it can’t be overestimated.
If you have arrived at those conclusions, you are so far into your own selfishness and perversion that a demand that sane people "empathise" with you can only be further grooming. The appropriate response to you is keeping you away from children, far away, forever. That's all.
I can’t look at those things too long, so let’s look at what they say about “cute.” Kincaid said “we should try not to counter erotic attraction to children with nothing stronger than nostalgia and talk about how sweet children are.”
Translation: “I am trying to contaminate and corrupt your own love of children, which is pure and good and protective, by suggesting that it is akin to my sexual desire for children, which is craven, depraved and perverse.” This one is one of the most damaging aspects of abuse.
Abuse victims may, themselves, have normal, affectionate and loving feelings towards children, their own and other people's. But they internalize the feelings of their abuser, and shy away from any physical or emotional contact with children, fearing, without justification.
The point to make about all of the horrific things that these men say is that every single one is trying to provide a justification for the sexual abuse of children, trying to erode taboos against adult child sex, and amounts to “grooming.”
Look for it in arguments on the Staniland Question on Twitter. Look for it in online discussions about MAPs. Wherever you see somebody arguing that girls should be exposed to adult male penises, just think about grooming.
I’m not in favour in general of slippery slope arguments in general. But when it comes to the protection of children, I want very firm boundaries against sexual abuse to be put in place very early on in that “slippery slope.”
I want boundaries in place when an adult tries to engage my children in physical touch which oversteps their social bounds. For example, an adult male at a kids play group who tried to engage my children in a tickling game. He was not a worker there, just a visitor.
I had never met him before, I had never spoken to him, he interacted with my children before he spoke to me. I went over and intercepted him and, firmly but politely, asked why he was speaking to my children. He said “you’re obsessed with sex.”
That confirmed my suspicions. I told him to sling his hook. He did. That boundary is a long way before anybody is exposing their penis to children. Child molesters identify children who are vulnerable. The children of single mothers, who are desperate for help.
Children who have previously been abused. Children of liberal and progressive parents who think that their kids rolling on the floor with strangers in drag is all good fun. Children whose parents, blinded by the rainbow, see no evil.
Parents who tell children who see penises in their female-only spaces to look the other way. Children whose parents DARVO them and say, “you shouldn’t be looking at other people’s genitals.” Vulnerable children.
Do not be groomed. Do not be persuaded by any discourse which attempts to undermine the fact that child abuse is harmful to children, and that before a child is abused, a whole process of grooming, both of adults and then children, needs to take place.
Do not be complicit in grooming. Do as I did, before I had children. Make a solemn promise that you will hold a line against men like those I have described in this thread, and vow that children will be safer around you.
Final thought: I'm not expecting many likes on this thread. It's too horrible. If you have got this far, fair play to you. Thank you for not averting your eyes. Sorry that this is now in your head too. But you are, at least, better aware of why children need protection.
Part 2 of this story involves David Paisley. Paisley had just spent a great deal of energy trying to normalise children seeing the genitals of a man who turned out to be a convicted sex offender, and of being seen by him.
Ceri mentioned him in the thread and even said “Parsley et al”, meaning that he was simply one of many who were spreading this anti-safeguarding line. Paisley demanded she delete and Ceri complied, not wanting the trouble. Of course, this wasn’t enough for the bully.
I hope that this evidence will persuade Northern Irish police that they are being manipulated by a dangerous narcissist and misogynist. Perhaps when all these details come to light, we can even dream that vexatious trolls like Paisley will finally find themselves at the end of a charge of wasting police time.
No there is nothing wrong with the naked human body.
But we are all entitled to have dignity and respect for our personal privacy.
David Paisley and fellow exhibitionists should go live in a nudist colony and exhibit themselves to their hearts content.
And not do it in front of women and children.
We all know biological sex is a colonialist construct (🙄) but did you know that child safeguarding is too? 🤡
I'm sure you've all seen the tweets from the usual ANTIFA suspects purporting that very thing.