Police arrest author of 'The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct'

Under arrest: Phillip R Greaves II, the author of the 2010 book 'The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct' has been arrested in Colorado on an obscenity charge

Police have arrested the author of a twisted book entitled 'The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct'.

Philip Ray Greaves II was arrested after he sold and mailed a signed copy of his book to undercover police officers.

'He very proudly sold us his personal copy,' Polk Sheriff Grady Judd told the Associated Press.



'I was outraged by the content. It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children ... You just can't believe how absolutely disgusting it was.'

Greaves was arrested at his home in Pueblo, Colorado for violating Florida's obscenity laws.

His paedophilia guide was pulled from Amazon.com last month after it sparked an online uproar.

It is not clear how the book made it on to Amazon.com in the first place.

The book included first-person descriptions of sexual encounters, purportedly written from a child's point of view.

Greaves argues in the book that paedophiles are misunderstood, as the word literally means to love a child.



He adds that it is only a crime to act on sexual impulses toward children, and offers advice that purportedly allows pedophiles to abide by the law.

Sheriff Judd said he and his detectives got Greaves to sell the book to them for $50. He sent it through the mail and told officers it was his last copy.

Sheriff Judd, known throughout Florida as a crusader against child predators, said he was incensed when he heard about the book and that no one had arrested Greaves for selling it.

'What's wrong with a society that has gotten to the point that we can't arrest child pornographers and child molesters who write a book about how to rape a child?' Sheriff Judd said.

'If we can get jurisdiction ... we're coming after you,' Sheriff Judd said.



'There's nothing in the world more important than our children.'

Greaves is being charged with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in conduct harmful to minors.

Laurie Shorter, spokeswoman for the Pueblo County Sheriff's Department, said Greaves would be held in the county jail on the Florida charge.



Outrage: The cover of Greaves' book

He was being booked Monday morning and it was unclear if he has an attorney. Sheriff Judd said Greaves could be in Florida as early as Monday night.

'If he will waive extradition, it's my goal for him to eat processed turkey on Christmas Day in the Polk County Jail,' Sheriff Judd said.

Denver attorney David Lane, who has handled several high-profile free speech cases, said Florida could have a hard time extraditing Greaves. He is entitled to a hearing where he can argue he should not be sent there to face charges.

'The main question is whether what he's accused of in Florida would be a crime in Colorado,' Mr Lane said.



'Obviously, it's not a crime in Colorado because he hasn't been arrested here.'

Writs of extradition - the paperwork necessary to send somebody to another state - are routinely signed by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, a former Denver district attorney.



But Mr Lane, who is not affiliated with this case, said it involves a different set of issues.

'Most of other extradition cases present clear-cut cases, the defendant was dealing drugs in that other state or some other crime that is also illegal here,' Mr Lane said.

Governor Ritter's spokesman, Evan Dreyer, did not immediately return a message.

Greaves has no criminal record, but his self-published book of advice on how to make sexual encounters with children safe caused a flap when it showed up on Amazon in November. The book was later removed from the site.