I twice experienced men stating they were pedophiles, in posts on SW.
The first one literally said that he prefers preteen girls, and the context made it clear that he meant romantically. He also wrote that he tries to talk with preteen girls when he meet them. He seemed somehow clueless that people would have a problem with that.
The other one was more tricky, because he simply mentioned that he self pleasures near a high school, but I replied to him in the comments where he wrote "I have done many much worse things and never been caught, and there is nothing you can do to get me caught" so I left it alone at that point and filed a ticket, because we're not supposed to bully these people into deleting their posts (evidence) etc.
The SW admins say they sometimes contact the police, that's why we need to let them think they are safe here.
It's crazy that they actually post these things publicly, however when it comes to DMs I had several men, relatively young guys too, confess or almost confess to being pedophiles – like years ago, because I wouldn't bother replying to any such people nowadays, but I assume it still happens and they are around.
