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I am leaving Mr Poll because I am concerned about the many accounts of cruelty to children. As a minor attracted person I understand the need for people to get stuff off their chest but blatantly encouraging child sexual abuse is VERY serious.

Adam, I understand how you feel, as I'm always concerned about this sort of subject matter on Mister Poll. You've been very helpful in the past in identifying it and bringing it to our attention, which has certainly helped to curb it. Controlling it is a never-ending battle though, and it can certainly wear on a person.

I hope that after a break, you'll consider coming back and helping us keep an eye on things.

AdamJohn:

I agree with MrPoll's answer. We need more people on here, not less, who will stand up to the pedophiles, child abusers, predators, ad nauseum, who seem to be overrunning this site at times. I do it myself from time to time, flag polls, and directly report some of the most sickening polls, such as from a pair of predatory pedophilic parents not long ago. They do close the most offensive polls if specifically asked to.

I have seen a lot of things, good, bad, and outright evil in my time. In a recent poll, you persisted in asking my age. Let me give you a clue: I still have ration coupon books with my name on the covers, for sugar, meat, and other such rationed commodities, issued by the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II. Close enough?

As for outright evil, I survived growing up in an alcoholic family of sexually predatory parents and grandparents, and came out quite normal (especially after a bit of therapy in my 40s); apparently I turned out to be one tough son-of-a-bitch, including finally breaking my dad's nose and jaw and a few other things and putting him in the hospital for several days, when I was sixteen. Enough was enough.

The one bright spot that came out of it was that my early grade-school teachers were the first adults I ever met who actually liked me, for real, for who I was, and so these were the very first outside adults I went way out of my way to please, by learning to read and write and so forth. This led to a few college degrees (plural), one a masters in clinical psychology, and in looking over my own past I recently found a hitherto-unknown one-word noun that describes me: a polymath, or alternately, a polyhistor. A bit egotistical, but I do meet the specs. Incidentally, if you are also one such, don't bother applying to MENSA; I got a free invite and met some of the most stuck-up people I ever met; these are the kind of folk who can order a seven-course dinner in flawless Parisian French, but don't know enough to lock up the car while it's parked behind the French restaurant at night.

As for MisterPoll, it's a place I go sometimes to be simultaneously entertained and frightened by all too many mental cases who can't even spell their own language, let alone write a coherent sentence. The scariest thing is that these people are not only old enough to vote, they are old enough to run for public office, and in the USA at least, there are population zones which will actually vote them into office.

In the meantime, I hope you will reconsider, and be a fighter, not a quitter. From what I've read from you, you are fighting for the RIGHT side, brother, and the one thing that the WRONG side does NOT have is COURAGE. They act tough as nails, but whenever you mess in with them, the first thing they do is to start whining and crying like an 11-year-old girl.

Keep on keepin' on! :-)

A big thank you to Mr Poll and Nature Boy for your warm comments. I do need to make a few points of my own.

1. I am, myself a minor attracted person. I am attracted to boys between the ages of 10 and 18. This is partly why I find the abuse on this site (whether real or imagined) upsetting. I too have sexual fantasies about children but it is the relationship and not the sex that I crave. Of course this cannot happen, if for no other reason than the fact that it is neither legally or socially acceptable. I guess my emotions are similar to most other adults inasmuch as I think it is the relationship we should aspire to first and foremost. I just have a lower age of attraction. I came onto this site to get understanding and I feel that I have had some.

2. NatureBoy I asked for your age in order to protect myself and you (if you were below 18). I too am a polymath and no, I am not in MENSA. Do feel to get in touch via my e-mail which is adamjohnpowell@hotmail.co.uk.