The online magazine Salon has tried to normalize pedophilia before. And now they are at it again. This time, they have once again brought back Todd Nickerson, an admitted pedophile who claims he has “never touched a child,” is trying yet again to justify his attraction to children through an interview on Salon.

This pedophile is not a monster. Todd Nickerson on attraction, love and a life of loneliness https://t.co/jCkvTbLOZP

— Salon (@Salon) May 17, 2016

Nickerson, now 43, says he has never abused a child and never will. He is involved in a website called “Virtuous Pedophiles” that provides an online discussion forum for people that are attracted to children but do not want to act on it.

“My purpose is to go out and educate people, allowing people like myself to come out and be open,” he said. “Society makes it harder by persecuting us because a lot of us become fatalistic.”

“We start to think it doesn’t matter what we do or say they’re going to hate us anyway.”