Very cool, if true

The discussion yesterday about Rolf Harris made me wonder about something - specifically the line "He may well be an entirely innocent man who's been caught up in a witchhunt. Or he might be a horrible, horrible person."


What would you do if you woke up tomorrow with repeated sexual thoughts about 12-year-olds?


Side-thoughts:
What percentage of people have paedophilic thoughts that they never do anything about.
Are child abusers a small percentage of people who have those feelings, but don't control them?
As 5% of people seem to be naturally "bastards", does that imply that 95% of paedophiles live a somewhat troubled life, while only the ones that don't care about others actually engage in abuse?
Have studies been done into how good/bad people are controlling their sexual urges? My bet would be 'not very', considering the number of people who were brought up to hate either all sex or specific kinds of sex, and then do so self-hatingly.
Are there resources for people who are worried they might act abusively to get help?

For an example of people who suddenly wake up with paedophilic thoughts, see this case. Sadly, it now seems that people are using this excuse in multiple cases elsewhere (in at least one case with a_spinal_tumour, which seems remarkably unlikely.) I also bumped into this comic yesterday, which is a nice case of synchronicity.

Oh, and before someone asks, I am _not_ asking about this for myself, or anyone I know. I am very grateful that I don't have any compulsions like that

My mother-in-law very kindly gave me some Amazon vouchers.

And I spent twenty minutes looking over all sorts of awesome reprints of things I already owned, being produced in shiny versions. Ellis' run on The Authority in one massive hardback would look rather nice next to Grant Morrison's complete run on New X-Men, possibly flanked by the whole of Planetary.

And then I realised I was looking at repackaged versions of things I already owned. And while this is sometimes worthwhile (Absolute Sandman makes me _very_ happy), it wasn't actually getting me anything _new_.

And as I am reliably informed that people's lives are more enriched by new experiences than by objects, I spent a few minutes looking up what recent books were getting great reviews, and then ordered volume 1 of Scarlet, The Manhattan Projects, and Happy! - all by writers I've enjoyed before (Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman, and Grant Morrison), all new to me, and all well received on Amazon. Oh, and the deluxe version of We3 (because I haven't seen my copy in ages, and it makes me cry whenever I read it) and the new Unwritten GN (because I enjoy Unwritten a lot. Not as much as Carey's previous work on Lucifer, but still rather a lot).

Should keep me going for a while, and stop me getting too mired in the past. Next time round I may even buy some things by writers I don't already know...