The following e-mail was recently sent to a pro-pedophile, pro-perversion website called NAMBLA by Carmen Welker, who experienced childhood sexual abuse at the hands of exactly the type of adult that NAMBLA attempts to pass off as "normal":

NAMBLA says:

Boys often approach sex with great interest and enthusiasm, so that their consensual sexual experiences are not harmful.

Carmen's response:

While that sentence sounds logical and benign, it is deceiving and quite debateable mainly because is a subjective statement. How do you KNOW that these experiences are not harmful? Are you there to supervise every encounter? What if the child had a relationship with someone who had AIDS or VD? Wouldn't it also depend on the age of the boy, the age of their "partners", and on who their "partner" is? What if it's their own father, or a father figure? Regardless of whether it was "consensual" or not, an incestual experience can scar a child for life! Sexual curiosity and feelings aside, once that barrier between child-parent is broken via a sexual encounter, the whole relationship changes on many levels.

One of the most dangerous side-effects (besides the fact that incest is taboo and the parent can go to prison) is that the child suddenly focuses on sex wherever he goes, rather than on developing normal, healthy nonsexual relationships. That special bond, in which the child used to feel protected from the world, has been exchanged for something "secret", something that is reserved for grown-ups - and this not only results in guilt feelings, but also causes the child's feelings to vacillate between being "special" and being "disgusted". More often than not, the child learns to manipulate his partner by using sex to gain favors from his new-found sex partner, which he will most likely take into future relationships. Yes, children, as sexual beings, will experiment - and probably most of the time, their experiences are harmless - but they need to be taught boundaries and proper behavior, not that they should "just go for it". I hate to burst your bubble, but children usually are disgusted by older people's advances in one way or another.

How do I know all this? I was one of those "special" children who was "taught" by adults (two of my mother's eight husbands, and one adoptive grandfather who lived with us for awhile. Also, I have a younger brother who, thanks to being "taught" by our mother during his teens, went on to become a bi-sexual pedophile whose entire life is basically "down the toilet" due to the fact that he could never pull himself out of the muck that was caused by wrong, ungodly thinking and behvior.

Furthermore, during my 22 years in the Army, I met many other people with like experiences, and can honestly say I have NEVER heard one of them tell me that their sexual experiences with an "older" person (especially when they were kids) was "wonderful". Quite the opposite. They speak of their experiences as being disgusting, degrading, embarassing, etc., and they seem to recall, not the sexual experience itself, but rather their disgust at the person's appearance, i.e., wrinkles, flabby pot-gut, profuse nose or ear hair, baldness, etc....

Yes, sex is an intriguing thing; every normal human being reacts to it. However, like the people I met along my life's path who also had childhood sexual encounters, the thing I remember the most is my utter disgust and disdain of those who "gave" me these early sexual encounters. I will never forget the putrid smell of my adoptive father's body, or Grandpa's wrinkled face, or the disgust I felt in my stomach when they told me of their fantasies, or the guilt feelings that sharing their "special secrets" evoked. While these encounters were never "consensual" on my part, I felt the same way about older people I eventually had consensual sex with. To this day, at age 52, I still have a "love-hate" relationship with sex....

Yes, we are all sexual beings, but he thing is, children look to adults as their guardians and protectors--people who protect them from the "bogey-man" and the neighbors barking dogs, and who hold them tightly when they've had nightmares in the middle of the night. Children view adults as people to look up to and respect--not to have sex with. Once that adult/child barrier is broken and a sexual relationship begins, the child loses all respect for adults, and it starts a spiraling chain reaction of twisted thinking about what is normally supposed to be a beautiful act between a husband and wife. (Note, I said "husband and wife" not male-on-male, or female-on-female, or "adult/child love".....)

NAMBLA says:

Once sexual experiences have become known to others, secondary harm to youngsters can be induced by the inappropriate reactions of parents, police, social workers, lawyers and other adults, where no apparent harm results from the sexual contact itself.

Carmen's response:

Wow! If this isn't propaganda, I don't know what is! What you are in essense saying is, if I caught some 40 year old messing with my 10 year old, my anger and aversion could HARM my child???? I have to be honest here and tell you that if I caught an adult even THINKING about touching my young child, I would personally remove their perpetrating body part with a rusty paring knife! This would not be "harming" my child's little psyche; it would reinforce the fact that "consenting" sex acts between children and adults is NOT "okay". (Both man's law and God's law agree on this matter!) This would also serve to prevent the child from becoming a future sexual deviate who thinks that sex with anybody and everybody is perfectly normal....

NAMBLA says:

If people are not taught to despise their bodies and fear sex, if their sexual choices are not forced on them by others, and if they are not subjected to harsh or stigmatizing reactions to their sexual choices and experiences, they will not be harmed by having sex, regardless of how old or young they are or with whom they have sex.

Carmen's response:

"....regardless of how old or young they are or with whom they have sex."....Whoah! You people are SERIOUSLY deluding yourselves. See the above. Also check the prisons which are full of sexual predators and deviates, along with the statistics of sexual crimes in this country. God told man to be sexually pure for a reason. We didn't listen, and so now we are reaping the consequences of AIDS, Herpes, and other sexually transmitted diseases for which there is no cure, along with an ever downward-spiraling trend in morality. I recently ministered to a 21 year old woman who was "taught" the pleasure of sex by her own father. She, as an adult, is now "in love" with a 12 year old boy. Not only that, but last year, she tried to commit suicide by setting herself on fire, and now she looks like something out of a horror movie. I would definitely say that she was "harmed" by her early sexual encounters - so your contention that "sex with children is harmless" is nothing more than unadulterated and unfounded propaganda designed to further your homosexual agenda! Furthermore, that German study on your website doesn't prove that sex with young boys is harmless; you've simply scraped the bottom of that proverbial barrel to find a "study" that supports your twisted viewpoint.

So, who am I and why am I writing this?

Like I said above, I'm somebody who has "been there and done that" and who managed to crawl out from under that garbage that was heaped on me as a child by some "well-meaning" adults. I'm somebody whose brother never managed to overcome his past and allowed it to continue ruining his life. (My brother and I were products of a mother who started her own sexual escapes early in life [thanks to HER own mother who turned her into a prostitute so she could earn enough money to keep the household in booze] and consequently ruined not only her own life, but the lives of all the children she shelled out; gave away, or had a direct influence on.) I'm somebody who has been a camp counselor for abused and neglected children, ALL of whose lives were ruined in one way or another: Young girls and boys (practically still babies) whose sole goals in life are to have sex with anybody and everybody - all because their sexual desires were awakened too soon; kids who have grown up thinking sex is nothing more than a handshake. Kids who have grown up to repeat the cycle and "teach" their children, or their children's friends that deviant sexual behavior is "okay".

My personal encounter with adult/child "love" has cost me many relationships during my lifetime because I had been conditioned to believe that sex was love, when in fact, it isn't, and that any kind of a touch was a "come-on." Anytime someone hugged me in a friendly manner (male or female), I got "turned on", and consequently felt disgusted with myself because down deep, I knew it was wrong. (Nobody told me or conditioned me to believe it was wrong; I just KNEW it!) I was confused and miserable because I never felt fulfilled in my soul, yet I didn't know what to do about it. To me, relationships were all centered around sex, because apparently, that's all relationships were comprised of.

A child's mind simply isn't prepared for sexual activity, especially with an adult. A child has to experiment on its own and in due time; it should not become"awakened" to sexual pleasures at the whim of some adult. Awakening sexual desires in a child too early is extremely dangerous in that the child becomes obsessed with sex and begins to act out with other children, animals, dolls, etc. Any adult hugs from then on are perceived as sexual advances. This simultaneously excites and angers the child because it feels "raped" and "dirty" and confused, nonstop. You can call it "love" if you want to, but the bottom line is, you are deluding yourself!

While sexual activity with children is still considered tabbo in this country (as is deviant behavior), let's talk about what the Bible says about your activity:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10: "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:11-13: Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what is done in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.

In Genesis 19 Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him in order to get pregnant and have babies. The descendants of Lot were a war-mongering, unhappy bunch whose race eventually was melted down and lost among the nations. God does not bless unholy unions, no matter how we try to sugar-coat them. And yes, God is watching what you are doing -- whether you choose to believe in Him, or not....

These are but a few examples, as there are literally HUNDREDS! (More listed below...) When it comes to keeping ourselves pure, God doesn't kid around. Those who refuse to abide by His Word and deliberately sin against Him without repenting WILL go hell!

I beg you, if you don't wish to rethink what you are doing to, and how you are affecting children, then at least please consider removing your website from the internet so as not to spread this sinful, decadent, and twisted belief system.