© ExpreszoText in image reads: '"Mom, I have a big problem: I fall for young boys" Out of the closet as a pedophile'
Established in 1988,
Expreszo is the only magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth distributed in The Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking northern Belgian area, Flanders. This month, an article was published on their website that strongly suggested
this LGBT organisation has come out in support of pedophilia.
On August 11th,
Expreszo published
an interview originally posted on the website pedofilie.nl in April 2016
('Mom, I have a big problem: I fall for young boys'), in which a 23-year-old man, 'Cody', together with his parents, declared himself a pedophile.
Below the interview, an editorial comment reads: "
With this story the author and Expreszo want to draw attention to the challenges young pedophiles face."
The man explains how difficult it was for him to keep this secret to himself and that it led to depression, until one day he told his mother, who then told his father. According to the interview, both parents accepted the situation, and trusted he would never sexually abuse children. The interviewer asks Cody whether he can explain his 'sexual orientation', to which he responded:
"I fall for women around my age as well as boys around the age of 8 to 12 years. Those two orientations are evenly distributed, say 50/50. My attraction to women is less compared to 100% heterosexuals. I notice this when I walk around in the city with my friends or my brother. They notice beautiful women quicker and more often than me. What they don't see, but I do, are beautiful boys. That I also fall for boys is something that I preferably did not want to have".
He then goes on to say that he had read a lot of 'coming out' stories by pedophiles on the Dutch website pedofilie.nl, which encouraged him to share his story there. After receiving "normal humane comments" to his post, he felt relieved, which then led him to tell his mother when the opportunity arose.
Comment: Interestingly, the video mentioned in the article was removed from YouTube shortly after this article was published. It has now been replaced with a short segment of the video (in Dutch and Russian only). A full transcript in English of the press conference presented in the short clip can be read here.