User:Herostratus/Pedophilia and Me

So how the hell did I get involved in this stuff?

Started when I ran across this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Childlove movement. I have to say, I was appalled and my eyes about rolled out of my head: you've got to be fucking kidding me... Who knew such things even existed? Funny!

Not so funny when a little more investigation revealed that the child sexuality article was badly slanted. And after all our article is the first result from a Google search on "child sexuality", so this was Not A Good Thing. And there was a bunch of other activity on similar articles that was, uh, problematical. Turns out there's some kind of loose group of what I'll call sex-with-children-normalization advocates that were trying to subvert the Wikipedia for their own bizarre agenda. There was also quite a bit of puppetry etc. involved. That got me kind of angry, and so for about five years I kept an eye on on this subject. (Again, several other editors have been much more effective at this than I am and several other editors are much more knowledgeable on this subject than I am, as I lack the academic or professional background to have anything remotely approaching real expertise in this area.)

Of course, slanted editing is never welcome. But in this area it's especially problematical, because:

• This is a subject where we really don't want people to get the wrong ideas. It's not good if people get the wrong ideas about, say, the history of the Slovak language, but misinformation on this subject could cause real-world harm.
• This is a potential political problem for the Wikipedia. We don't want outside parties to get the idea that we present slanted information on this subject or countenance over-emphasis on fringe ideologies in this area . This could be quite a disaster.

So that is why I edited in this area (I don't any longer). I don't much care or really know about the subject, except what I've learned here. It's solely because I care about the Wikipedia and wish to defend it.