Our Ethos
The aim of this site is to create a thriving community and platform for the sexual rights of youth, children and minor-attracted persons.
This website has been built for the purpose of collaborative activism and advocacy. The central message of Newgon.com is one of sex-positivity: the idea that expressed sexuality cannot be primarily bad or harmful, or at least any more so than other forms of human affection. Newgon.com advocates against the idea that supposed gaps in power between young and old lovers will lead to “exploitation” or abuse, as this would be an unrealistic and fundamentally negative take on sexuality itself; as something inherently corrupting or abusive, at least when concerning certain classes of people and relationships that one would assume to be lower risk when not considering sexuality.
Via a series of projects, including a blog, forum, debate guide, numerous writings and an anti-censorship campaign, Newgon.com is aiming to become the primary resource for people who really care about the sexual rights of minors and minor-attracted persons. Whether through their own persecution or their thirst for justice and young peoples’ freedom from dangerous ideas including the myths of intrinsic harm and psychopathy of affective sexual orientations, Newgon.com members will be active in making known what is currently hidden from society.
The beginnings of this site
Some time in late 2005, I was reading the daily news breakdown on "Rotten.com", and in coming across a reference to a "NAMBLA membership card" on one of their obligatory TeenBoy sex comment threads, decided to investigate further. Having been of the opinion that the contemporary conflict between the "inherent corrupting nature" of sexuality and the "innocent" child is largely constructed since my early teen years, I was fascinated that there may be campaigning organisations that represent my point of view. I quickly moved on to the NAMBLA website and those which were linked to it, especially the English translation of Vereniging MARTIJN's site. I decided to help MARTIJN by proofreading a couple of their articles whilst at the same time perfecting my debating skills on an unrelated bulletin board. After being banned from this board for upsetting the locals, I moved on to the (until recently) free-speech tolerant IIDB.org, where I would eventually take part in many debates on intergenerational love and other moral issues such as homosexuality and abortion. It is from one of these debates that the idea for "Debate Guide" was conceived by myself and developed with the help of a collaborator, Raza, who had been toying with these debates on an off for much longer than myself.
From that point, I continued to build the guide using free hosting from Google and inspiration from my own thoughts and many online resources. I went on to start an "easy reading alternative"; a blog called "Game ON!" (Hence the New-G-On that you see today) on Google's Blogger.com. After only a few months and a hate campaign by rabid "AntiPeds" (as a side note, I have never had a pedophilic preference, although the label is often used as a straw-man), my blog was removed, shortly followed by a team blog ("Pictorial Activism") that I and a collaborator, this time Raven created using the still reliable Google system. The rest of my Google hosted sites would not take long to fulfil their destiny of reaching the online freedom of speech graveyard. From all of these sites, only my original blog and a few spin-off pages still existed, and even this was largely due to my more widespread efforts in preventing the addresses of deleted websites from being swallowed up by vigilante elements.
So what next? A few e.mails to free hosting providers confirmed my suspicions; hardly anyone is willing to risk hosting speech that is truly free, in both societal and monetary senses of the word. After asking for help, I was directed towards NearlyFreeSpeech.net, a paid host that is only concerned with the legality of its content. Using this service, and the help of another web administrator, Jillium, I am re-hosting DebateGuide, along with a stable of other resources including what should become a community of like-minded activists.