February 11

Events

1998 - Love is the drug I'm looking for - The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study on this date that claimed that injections of a drug that blocks the male hormone testosterone appeared to be highly effective in "treating" pedos. Israeli researchers who gave injections of the drug triptorelin to a group of 30 men found that it virtually eliminated pedo sex fantasies. Side effects of triptorelin, which was not available in the United States at the time of the study, include impotence, hot flashes, weakened bones and a lack of sexual interest in women. The Israeli researchers said triptorelin has several advantages over some other Depo Provera, which was being used in American treatment programs, and cyproterone acetate, which was being used in Canada, Israel and some European countries. Those drugs are only 60 to 80 percent effective and have more serious side effects. And because triptorelin only has to be administered once a month, researchers said that they believe that patients will be more likely to stay on the regimen. However, researchers said that their findings needed further study because the group studied was not compared with another group given a placebo. They said that they feared placebo recipients might pose a danger to society, so no control group was employed.

1999 - That's the most expensive KP I've ever heard of! - A bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on this date that would double the previous Customs Service's budget for combating child pornography on the Internet. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Texas), would have authorized $20 million over four years for the Customs Cybersmuggling Center. The center, established by Customs in 1996, analyzes intelligence data related to child pornography, disseminates information to other law enforcement agencies and coordinates undercover operations to catch people who are electronically distributing child pornography. Congress earmarked $2.5 million for the program in 1999. The Clinton administration, in its fiscal 2000 budget, did not specifically request funds for the center. At a press conference today, Lampson said Customs needs the extra money to "continue its worldwide leadership in the prevention of the sexual exploitation and abuse of children." If the bill passes, lawmakers would still have to agree to appropriate the funds each year.

1999 - Not too young to understand about sexual interest at all - The Toronto Star published a story on this date about juvenile prostitution in that city. The story featured Kimberly, a 14 year old prostitute. She began hooking much earlier, when she was 11 years old, after she left her family and moved from a small town in southern Ontario to Toronto. Toronto police said that they see a lot of girls working as prostitutes at 10 and 11 years of age. While they claimed success at getting most of the child prostitutes off the street, they acknowledged that there were always more very young girls selling and men buying to keep them quite busy.

2000 - Domo arigoto, Mr. Perverto - The Washington Post reported on this date about the progress of attempts in Japan to clamp down on teenagers having sex with older men. In the three months since a new law about child prostitution and child pornography had come into effect success was being reported, but with no statistics to back it up. They did say, however, that 80 percent of the child pornography distributed in the world was made in Japan and that the new law was enacted only after public outrage erupted last year over stories about the fad of "arranged dates" in which older men paid for liaisons with schoolgirls.

2001 - "Caught in your superficial, nonexistent, fairy-story, wonderland" - On this date, the day before seven members of the Wonderland child porn trading group were sentenced in London, the Guardian published an article thoroughly examining the club and its operation. The international investigation in this case was the biggest of its kind in policing history to that date, taking in 13 countries and 180 men. They reported that the porn recovered was "so appalling that National Crime Squad officers who had to sift through the mountain of material had compulsory therapy sessions to help them deal with what they saw." The men each could have been jailed for up to three years, but the sentences ranged from 1 to 2 1/2 years. needless to say, the child advocates were lining up to the microphone to condemn the sentences the moment they were read.