The paedophiles have done this before - they tried to hang off gay rights back in the 70s (and into the 80s I think) and it took a really shocking amount of time for them to be shaken off. They have been watching and learning ever since, as this document shows. We have to remember that they're usually intelligent, well educated, well connected, well off men who understand what they're doing is wrong, and want to do it anyway.
The myth of the sad, socially conscious paedophile is really surprisingly pervasive. A close friend of mine told me about how sad it was, she had seen a documentary about a poor man who just didn't want to hurt children! He reported himself to the police! Asked them to lock him up! He hadn't done anything yet, wasn't a threat to himself, didn't have concrete plans, so it wasn't legal to arrest or detain him. And so when he later raped a child, it wasn't his fault, see? He did all he could. She had genuine sympathy for him, and was uncomfortable when I pointed out, but he raped. a. child. He wasn't a wild animal, he is still ostensibly a man. Children aren't easy to get access to, they don't grow on trees. You can't accidentally rape a child.
I work in prison research and this kind of narrative is so easy, because it seems like its logical, easy to understand. These poor men, so persecuted for something they cannot help. But they are a child rapists - the only outcome of this is child rape, child abuse, child grooming. There is no ethical paedophilia, even non-contact child abuse is child abuse, it traumatises children and ruins childhoods. They want to shift the narrative away from the children they hurt and onto themselves as victims of some ineffable desire, something out of their control.
There was an article in the guardian recently that was about people seeking help for paedophilic thoughts and how great this is, but it really unnerved me because it read like a stop-smoking article. Its good to give up bad habits! But when that bad habit is GETTING AROUSED BY CHILD RAPE we need to call out what it is, not couch it in hippy dippy language and pretend its all normal and try and see both sides.
The paedophile community wants us to get bogged down in all this, because it makes their own job easier, and I'm glad this document has come out, because it shows that we're not crazy for thinking this is happening.