Author: Sterling Title: AAAAA Guide to 'Sterling' and his stories
aka README.txt Summary: I've been at this for 11 years now. Here
I offer some information on me as a person, my history of
posting, and where to find all the stories (it's here).

First posted 9/22/2020.

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Complete set

As of today (9/22/2020) all of my erotic stories are listed in
this folder/directory of "Sterling" on ASSTR. There are roughly
180 files, roughly 180 stories.

I have posted stories to other sites, but as of today every such
story is posted here too.

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Sex With Underage Partners is for Fantasy ONLY

A great many of my stories include underage characters in sexual
situations. In real life, all such relationships are wrong. There
is no excuse for them. If you yourself engage in such
relationships, I urge you in the strongest terms to STOP! And
while I of course have no knowledge or control of what any reader
does, if you are engaged in such relationships you are NOT
welcome to read my stories! They are not for you. Sex with
underage partners: Never do it!

I included a notice like this with some of my earlier stories,
but stopped after a while because it became tedious, not because
I became one iota less committed to that position.

If you are committed to doing the right thing, but would like
some people to talk with anonymously who are in the same
situation, contact Virtuous Pedophiles (virped.org). They run a
helpful online message board support group.

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History of story posting

I posted to ASSTR from the beginning in 2009, but have also
posted my stories in other places.

Starting in 2009, I began posting in "Stories Online". In 2011,
in response to a change in Canadian law, the site stopped
accepting any stories with children under 14 engaged in sex. That
was most of my stories. I've continued to post there the ones
that qualify, but it is definitely a minority!

In 2015, I made an ASSTR web version (also with the name
"Sterling") to access most of my stories, including sorting by
type/genre, and it is still there but will likely not be updated.

In 2017, the usual author tools for posting to ASSTR disappeared.
There was talk of "ftp access" but it sounded too complicated for
me. I just now (in 2020) put in the effort to figure out how it
worked (it's not that hard!), and as a result have recently
reposted stories here to ASSTR that had gone to other places in
the intervening three years.

One place was lolicit, a site that is primarily for "Lolicon"
cartoons drawings, but they also have a creative writing section.
Unfortunately, you must join and achieve a certain amount of
"reputation" before you can even see the stories there.

In 2019 I discovered Archive of Our Own (AO3), and posted there
enthusiastically for a while, but got banned due to a
misunderstanding late in 2019. The stories are still there as of
this date, but I am "muzzled" and cannot say anything, even in
reply to comments.

I have posted a few stories to "ravishu" that have rape-related
subjects.

As of today I have reposted to ASSTR everything I posted to these
different sites from the last 3 years.

Early on at ASSTR I made a "BARGAIN BASEMENT" subfolder for
stories I thought weren't up to par, but as of today I have
copied all of them to this main folder. Some of them (notably "Do
my daughter first") are popular and I now realize it is quite a
good story. The others aren't of any detectably inferior quality
either. I have left the old copies in that folder in case some
external link points to them.

There is a "story" titled "A SUBJECT INDEX" here which was last
updated in 2013. It is obsolete but presents a fair picture of
how the world looked to me then.

ASSTR used to provide weekly download reports, which I found very
valuable. Few readers bother to write to authors, so tracking
downloads is an excellent way to see how many people are
interested in your stories. In 2017 these stopped, and I miss
them. Before they stopped I had well over 2 million downloads of
all my stories collectively.

I try to include a "first posted" date for every story. It refers
to when the story was first posted anywhere, ignoring minor
changes or cross-posting that might imply a later date.

When I look back at my first year of posting, I see variety and
creativity -- perhaps too much. I also can see my own skills as a
writer getting better in that one year. So keep in mind that
stories with a "first posted" date before (say) September of 2010
are from a different era -- but I haven't deleted any of them.

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About me

I’m a pedophile, meaning I have a strong sexual and romantic
attraction to pre-pubescent girls. I have never acted on that
attraction and never will. I have never seen any child
pornography.

I live in the eastern USA. I was born in 1953. I have two
daughters, born in 1987 and 1990. I was married to their mother
from 1985 to 2000, and we divorced for unrelated reasons. I later
had a steady girlfriend of roughly my same age for about 9 years,
which rounds out my relationship history.

I thought of myself as a normal hetero guy until about the age of
54 or so. I surely could not have done so without a passionate
attraction to adult women. I am much luckier than many pedophiles
in that respect.

It is very rare for a pedophile to not realize his attractions
until such a late age. But the attraction was there all along, I
just didn't understand it for what it was.

On the adult side, I’ve always preferred women who looked more
child-like and retained a playful and child-like personality.

Up until I was about age 30, children in general and girls in
particular were a mystery to me, being the youngest in my family
with no other children in my life. Then my ex-wife and I had two
daughters, and everything changed. I was an involved parent,
spending a lot of time with my daughters and their friends. I
really ‘got’ children, understood their feelings and
respected them, and they in turn liked me. I knew I felt a deep
tenderness and affection for them, but my pedophilia was
obscured. Parents often feel tenderness towards children, and I
figured I just had a stronger-than-usual case. While I felt a
typical parental love for my daughters, I felt a different
romantic attraction for some of their girl friends.

My protective reaction was so strong that I didn't let myself
even feel the sexual nature of my attraction until I started
looking at innocent pictures online for arousal purposes. Google
Images provides a wide variety of material, including girls of
all ages in bathing suits.

I used to volunteer with younger children and found it very
rewarding, but stopped even before I realized I was a pedophile.
Society became far more suspicious of any adult male interest in
spending time with children, and now forbids even hugs.

A major downside to my attraction is the isolation. There is a
whole side to my life I cannot share with anyone. The need to
keep a big secret is a deterrent to friendship, which at its best
includes being able to talk about anything.

I also have a successful career in high tech, and I've been
involved with a liberal religious congregation, and taken an
activist role in politics. Puzzles and games, nature, and dancing
are a few hobbies. I read a fair amount.

Writing has also been an outlet for my attractions. All the
stories I write are erotic in one way or another, but sexual
activity between men and small girls is surely a very common
theme. I portray a variety of thoughts and feelings to these men,
and some of them are very different from how I think and feel.
What I write is fiction, in both the specific and the general.

So that's a rough sketch of the man behind the stories.