Lindsay Ashford

From Academic Kids

Lindsay Ashford is a self-identified pedophile and girllover.

After a failed marriage and two suicide attempts, Ashford publicly came out as a pedophile at the age of 35. In 2003, he launched a website, where he expounds his philosophy about pedophilia and calls for tolerance of pedophilia and the abolition of age of consent laws. He discusses what he sees as common myths about pedophiles, and explains how his definition of pedophilia differs from the one commonly accepted by society. Like most "childlove" advocates, Ashford claims that children and adolescents are capable of being informed, consenting sexual partners, and that adult-child sexual/romantic relationships can be based on mutual love, not sexual abuse. The website encourages others to share their stories as well, and has an extensive discussion of the ethical issues surrounding pedophilia.

In a February, 2004 interview in a New Jersey newspaper, entitled “I’m tired of being forced into the shadows by society” (http://www.nj.com/specialprojects/expresstimes/index.ssf?/news/expresstimes/stories/molesters1_otherside.html)Ashford discusses his attraction to children and why he thinks that pedophiles should not be discriminated against by society.

[edit]

Domain name dispute

In June 2005, his puellula.org domain was shut down by his registrar Go Daddy, who altered the DNS records so that it would point at nonexistant name servers. According to the current Whois information (http://whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=puellula.org), it was shut down for "spam and abuse." Ashford has issued a press release (http://hfp.puellula.com/Press/2005-06-06.html) describing the events leading to this, and denouncing GoDaddy as "a self-appointed censor of speech." According to the press release, GoDaddy contacted him in mid-May and asked him to transfer the domain name elsewhere due to user complaints. He claims that he complied within the alloted 24 hours, since it was within GoDaddy's legal authority to insist upon this, but was then told by them that the domain name couldn't be transferred due to it being the subject of a dispute. Asking for an explanation multiple times, he received no further response.

A few days after the domain was disconnected, he registered a replacement domain name at puellula.com (http://www.puellula.com) using Joker. The entire site is currently available at the new location.

Ashford has accused GoDaddy not only of censorship, but also of hypocrisy [1] (http://annabelleigh.net/messages/312346.htm) [2] (http://annabelleigh.net/messages/312350.htm), noting that they have allowed the registration of several racist and Neo-Nazi sites, including one website of the Ku Klux Klan [3] (http://whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=ku-klux-klan.org).