#chris hansen

[unspeakablearchives]

Do you know about books made by "Kowloon Kurosawa"? He is the creator of hong kong 97 and he has a lot of sort of journalistic books about his travels to poor regions of mostly southeast asia afaik. In one of them he investigates child sex trafficking and follows a buyer and watches the entire buying process up until the sex. I would love a comprehensive archive of his books because they seem really interesting, and afaik theyre all on amazon.

Oooh, no I haven't heard of him, he sounds right up my alley!

If you know the name of that one particular work you described, let me know. I'm extremely interested in child sexual exploitation - and yes, as I typed out that sentence, I did notice how suspicious that sounds 💀

So maybe I should explain... Is everyone cool with me doing this by blathering on and on about some long stupid story? Great:

It was 8:00 p.m. on a Friday night, over 20 years ago, on January 23, 2004, & Dateline NBC was airing a special entitled "Children for Sale."

The program was an undercover investigation into child prostitution¹ in Cambodia. It was astronomically fucked up on a level I couldn't have imagined. I was just a wee youngster myself, but I was just mature enough to fully grasp what was happening, and it really affected me.

Although I didn't realize at the time, I can now see that this was a huge turning point for me in regards to disturbing media. Because I wasn't just upset at the abusers, pimps, and corrupt officials: I was furious at NBC for filming and airing this special in the first place.

You need to understand that this program really felt like a How-To guide for child abusers². The show highlighted just how easy it was to fly into Phnom Penh, find a driver, say you were looking for the youngest girls, and get taken to the village of Svay Pak, which specialized in this. At the time, it seemed so goddamn irresponsible to put this info out there.

So this news story stuck with me, and for years I would periodically research random stuff about Cambodia: it's history, news, and the current state of this child sex trafficking. And, as time passed, I began to realize something important:

I was wrong.

I was wrong because this mass-exposure by Dateline WORKED. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s the child sex trafficking in Svay Pak was omnipresent and completely out in the open. But all the ensuing news coverage focused the world's attention. It put pressure directly on the Cambodian government, it forced other nations to place their own pressure on Cambodia, it actively caused the mobilization of non-profit organizations and the formation of new ones.

Yes, the Dateline special probably did attract the attention of potential child sex tourists. But for every one of them, the news special mobilized tens of thousands of good people who would fight back against the abusers - people who had no way to know this exploitation was even happening until they saw Dateline.

And this is precisely what I mean when I talk about this being a turning point for me. Over time, this helped me form my viewpoint which is so central to this blog: that it is GOOD to make horrible things public.

The actual bad people out there? They do NOT want fucked up stuff to be made public. They want to keep it secret, hidden away. I want it out in the open, because THAT IS THE ONLY WAY IT GETS ADDRESSED.

Now that I've written such a long, impassioned explanation, I think there's finally enough context to release something very controversial but very important from the Archives™️:

"Cambodian Sex Trip Diary" by Hyacinthus

I believe this to be the only known surviving firsthand account of a child sex tourist visiting Cambodia in the early 2000s. I feel like it gives immense insight into what happened back then, and also into the mind of abusers. One day I'd like to write a proper analysis or even an annotated version detailing all the internal details that I think provide evidence of it's authenticity, proving it is not wholly fiction, but was written by someone who really engaged in child sex tourism.

Footnotes:

¹ Official sources are increasingly starting to shift from using the term "child prostitution" to "CSEC," or "commercial sexual exploitation of children." The idea is that the term "prostitution" can potentially imply consent, agency, or even criminality on the child’s part, and so should be avoided. However, few people are familiar with the new terminology so I used the older one. Sorry if that's inappropriate.

² This originally read: "this program really felt like a How-To guide for pedophiles". I have since been reminded that the term "pedophile" only refers to people with the attraction itself, many of whom control themselves and do not in fact end up abusing children. Well, you know, it's a learning process, I'm gonna make some slip-ups.

[astoldbyaja]

Why don’t you take a seat. Take a seat right here.

Yautja - “oh no it’s Chris Hansen!” *shoots him self in the head*

[nerdygaymormon]

[dasicality]

posting this b4 the 2026 movie/series drops and they remove all the problematic stuff and go woke

[the-gun-licker]

Oh sure, all the OTHER people like "secretaries" and "cooks" and "members of the Secret Service" get to go into the White House to do their "jobs," but when I, Chris Hansen from NBC's To Catch A Predator,

[richeeduvie]

I once talked about Chris Hansen in an Instagram story and he viewed it. This movie about him coming out that makes him look like an Avenger starring Robert Pattinson as the man himself and Phoebe Bridgers as what appears to be a decoy was specifically made for me.

[elisecairo]

[bambamramfan]

Popehat's Stupid Email

Sorry, I wanted to embed the email Ken White sent to his list today, but the title is so shock-jock offensive, that I'm not going to put that out there without giving people some cw warning. My lesser title is just a crude gesture in its direction. It's about the Epstein emails so not hard to guess, though.

Anyway, Popehat is often great, but has become increasingly cranky and intemperate lately (who can blame him; so have I.) I'm sure he would still destroy me in any insult off dunk-a-thon, but that doesn't change the fact that these arguments he thinks are so important to save for his email list are terrible.

This one is a satire of the famous "Harper's Letter" in a quasi-"Modest Proposal" style, simple replacing the words "disagrees with progressives" with "ch*ld r*pists." I think there's a canard regarding this bothsiderisms that goes "when you change some of the words, yes, the meaning changes" but he's a lawyer so maybe he didn't get that memo. I was more put off by a much bigger problem.

In trying to be satirical, Popehat has demonstrated WHY group stigmatization is such a bad tactic.

The free exchange of information and ideas with rich and powerful people irrespective of whether they have raped children, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty that raping children is bad and that people who rape children are bad, even if they can give us rides on helicopters and make us feel important. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech against raping children from all appropriate and qualified quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought, such as socializing with and promoting child-rapists and treating them as cherished friends.

Har har. "Rich elites who were very obviously in a circle of partiers who hired and used underage prostitutes, will continue to be welcome in society, because there's a thoughtless, civil libertarian, kneejerk reflex to not ban voices based on what they've done."

Except we know why Elon Musk and Bill Gates and Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz will continue to tweet in public with their head held high (at least I can't say the same for Prince Andrew: turns out the English monarchy has SOME standards the yanks won't meet.)

Because they're rich as fuck.

When not rich enough themselves, they're politically connected and have a slavish army of idolators behind them. You simply can't cancel someone like that, even if they were caught red handed paying their mistress a bribe and asking to be invited to pedophile island. That sucks!

If you crank up the heat on pitchforking ch*ld r*pists, then it turns out you don't hit the powerful fucks who were your intended target. Who do you hit instead?

18 year olds who were To Catch a Predator'd trying to hook up with a 15 year old.

Convicts of pedophilia when they were teens who still have to inform all their neighbors 40 years later.

People who have relationships with convicts helping them stay stable and not re-offending.

Teachers caught up in moral panics about Satanism and D&D.

Gay dude who downloaded the wrong thing and ran up against a DA who wanted to scare up some votes by being a hardass.

And of course, that old goodie, much higher rates of prosecution among minorities than white people.

Autistic people entrapped by TV producers, who have trouble telling the line between a fantasy online and real world consequences.

Those are the effects of zealously whipping up justified anger from famous elites, into generalized stigmatization. The billionaires are never gonna be the punching bags!