by Hannah Berrilli A Canadian man charged with making child sexual exploitation material ran a popular Reddit fetish community dedicated to ‘age play’ roleplaying fantasies. Richard Burdett, 55, went by the Reddit usernames of “fstopvox” and “F_Stop_Fitzgerald” and gained internet notoriety from creating role-play audio recordings based around extreme fetishes including those of rape, age-play, child sexual abuse, and more. The recordings were intended to be sexually arousing, with Burdett narrating a script which generally included him being an adult male in a position of power over a young girl.
Apr 30, 2022·edited Apr 30, 2022Liked by Genevieve Gluck
Has any other porn widow had an ex who participates in these type of sites, but has been dismissed as overreactive and invading privacy for expressing concern?
I'm sure my ex is on one of those sites. As the Internet grew in the 90s, he'd sign on to all of these emerging alt.binary.erotica.lolita or pre-teen sites. In the early aughts, I'd found 30k sex images on his computer, including BDSM clearly trafficked non-consenting photos as well as photos that were clearly of a naked young teen girl in her kitchen, plus lots of "cartoons" of child sex abuse.
I'd just found out about his extensive cheating too (plus the alcoholism I'd known about and forgiven repeatedly), BUT both my LAWYER AND the CHILD PSYCHIATRIST we were seeing for our then emotionally-at-risk toddler as part of a well-known, prestigious program told me that it wasn't a problem, that_I_ would be the one to get in trouble for "going on his computer," and that using those materials was just "fantasy" and not connected to any risk for my kids. Basically, I was overreacting, and I should just shut up.
So I kept it quiet for years because I didn't want my kids' dad arrested and his name smeared all over the country and his academic career ruined. I protected him.
How I regret my decision. NOW possession of this stuff is prosecuted, and if I had access to his stuff now, I know I could get him arrested. He's a pathological liar living in another country with a wife half his age who's tried to smear me and harm me with malicious lawsuits, etc. once I got engaged. Instead of being nice and accommodating "for the kids" I should have reported all of it, though again, at that time, it was dismissed.
***If there's a hotline where I could anonymously report him--he's in Canada--let me know. He's drinking again and I've no doubt he's in these groups, though I doubt he'd ever act on it--just use photos of other children's abuse, which people NOW recognize is a crime.
It's horrifying but not totally surprising. Abuse is completely normalised for children now. Just look at fanfiction. It's written by adults for children and many involve children being abused.
"Challenor had hired his father into a safety sensitive position within the UK Green Party, and hid his horrific past from the public. Challenor’s partner was similarly embroiled in controversy for having admitted to fantasizing about children being sexually abused."
Has any other porn widow had an ex who participates in these type of sites, but has been dismissed as overreactive and invading privacy for expressing concern?
I'm sure my ex is on one of those sites. As the Internet grew in the 90s, he'd sign on to all of these emerging alt.binary.erotica.lolita or pre-teen sites. In the early aughts, I'd found 30k sex images on his computer, including BDSM clearly trafficked non-consenting photos as well as photos that were clearly of a naked young teen girl in her kitchen, plus lots of "cartoons" of child sex abuse.
I'd just found out about his extensive cheating too (plus the alcoholism I'd known about and forgiven repeatedly), BUT both my LAWYER AND the CHILD PSYCHIATRIST we were seeing for our then emotionally-at-risk toddler as part of a well-known, prestigious program told me that it wasn't a problem, that_I_ would be the one to get in trouble for "going on his computer," and that using those materials was just "fantasy" and not connected to any risk for my kids. Basically, I was overreacting, and I should just shut up.
So I kept it quiet for years because I didn't want my kids' dad arrested and his name smeared all over the country and his academic career ruined. I protected him.
How I regret my decision. NOW possession of this stuff is prosecuted, and if I had access to his stuff now, I know I could get him arrested. He's a pathological liar living in another country with a wife half his age who's tried to smear me and harm me with malicious lawsuits, etc. once I got engaged. Instead of being nice and accommodating "for the kids" I should have reported all of it, though again, at that time, it was dismissed.
***If there's a hotline where I could anonymously report him--he's in Canada--let me know. He's drinking again and I've no doubt he's in these groups, though I doubt he'd ever act on it--just use photos of other children's abuse, which people NOW recognize is a crime.
It's horrifying but not totally surprising. Abuse is completely normalised for children now. Just look at fanfiction. It's written by adults for children and many involve children being abused.
I hope it really hits reddit hard since they are so progressive about hosting child abusers.
This reminds me, I keep meaning to do a research article on the history of the flamethrower
"Challenor had hired his father into a safety sensitive position within the UK Green Party, and hid his horrific past from the public. Challenor’s partner was similarly embroiled in controversy for having admitted to fantasizing about children being sexually abused."
You can't make this up if you tried.