ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The author of a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles that was pulled from Amazon.com last month after widespread outrage has been arrested on obscenity charges.

Phillip Ray Greaves, a 47-year-old retired nurse's aide in Pueblo, Colo., was arrested at his home by sheriff's deputies from Florida's Polk County and charged with violating Florida's obscenity law.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said his office was able to arrest Greaves on Florida charges because Greaves sold and mailed his book -- "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" -- directly to undercover Polk deputies. Greaves even signed the book, Judd said.

Greaves said he does not promote pedophilia, but that it "is something that I have sympathy for because of my own childhood."

Greaves said he was exposed to sex when he was 7 years old. "I was not molested, but I was exposed to sex at an early age … Sometimes those relationships are positive. No, I do not advocate pedophilia. I just feel that I understand it."

Pueblo Police Chief James Billings told FoxNews.com last month that his department would conduct a "cursory review" of Greaves' material.

"We have no indication that a crime has been committed," Billings said last month. "But we are looking at the situation to have a better understanding of what this book is all about and to see if there's something we should be concerned about."

On Monday, Laurie Shorter, a spokeswoman for the Pueblo County Sheriff's Department, said Greaves would be held in the county jail on the Florida charge. He was being booked Monday morning and it was unclear if he has an attorney. 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," Judd said.

Denver attorney David Lane, who has handled several high-profile First Amendment cases, said Florida could have a hard time extraditing Greaves, who is charged with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in conduct harmful to minors.

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," 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 Gov. Bill Ritter, a former Denver district attorney. But 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," Lane said.

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.

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?" Judd said.

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

Greaves argues in the book that pedophiles 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.

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.

"If we can get jurisdiction ... we're coming after you," Judd said. "There's nothing in the world more important than our children."

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I hope this bastard gets tuned up in prison.

sounds like mr judd has the right attitude... good for him.

Ya, he should be made the director of the FBI or something.

Oh he'll get more than a tune up

i hope he gets raped by big black bobby lol

Oh I imagine there more than one tune up and someone will probably gut him too.

interesting,,, I will be observing how the line is drawn between obvious media saturation of sex and violence, personal accounts of sex and violence, and 'how to' descriptions of sex and violence

good.

perhaps if they have any intelligence, they will dig into his past, and present, and find whom he has had sex with, and just not been caught yet.

one whom has sympathy for a child molester, so much so as to write a book about it, slanting it IN FAVOR OF THE PREDATOR, has either acted on such himself, or soon will.

how can it be known for certainty?

the "feelings" that humans EMBRACE, AS GOOD ONES, decide what THEY SHALL DO.

so, this guy is a fuccking total menace to all peace and safety.

per his own words.

he needs to learn who to have compassion on, which is created by pain unto himself.

he's a total wack job, that cares nothing about another human life as having true value, but rather is reflecting his OWN SYMPATHY FOR HIS OWN DISCREPENCIES OUTWARD AS SYMPATHY FOR OTHER SICJ FUCCKS!

sick fucck needs to be removed from society for quite some spell.

Maybe Chris Hanson will interview him?

I bet if they checked his computer there would be child porn there.

the book alone is all cause for probable cause...

there are just too many high powered pedophiles in fuccking office, that those that are not have to fight to not lose their job to serve justice.

fuccking pathetic.

I really don't know how they are going to accomplish this seeing as this book is from a molested childs eyes ie the victim and the author being the victim writing his point of view.......saying he doesn't agree with pedophilia........if this is truly from a molested child perspective the authors view from being molested but trying to understand the psychology of the pedophile how can it be criminal?? And then you take into account that the law basically entrapped the author into breaking the law otherwise known as entrapment.....I don't think he will be extradicted or ever come to trial.....

Maybe, I think he is a scum bag.

Yeah so be it.......and therapists do say victims of pedophilia have the possibilty of growing up to become pedophiles......and that would also go along with victims becoming enamoured of their victimizers psychologically speaking this could have been his form of therapy.......and of course a way of making money and yes it is definitely a sick way but writing a book of how tos still inst against the law.....so entrapping someone into breaking the law also against the law.....so I still don't see how they can convcit him legally....albiet sick scumbag whatever you want to call him or wish to state....

Its a bit of a slippery slope with arresting him for obscenity laws. Like the guy who was arrested for having manga involving graphic pictures of tentical porn. Where does law and 1st amendment meet?

how is that entrapment? the undercover cop didn't entice him to write the filth, and Florida law is Florida law...entrapment is when a cop asks you to break the law, then arrests you for it...i didn't see anything like that here.

hello.

people lie.

just because he says he has not had sex with a child, does not make it so.

so, to base any reality on it, is absurd.

he wouldn't be espousing and telling other PEDOPHILES how to do it gently, and without harm, unless he was fuccked and wacked in the head...

either it was not so bad, and he liked it now in his older age, but some of the things that happened to him he didn't like?

those need to be handled better by the pedophile?

no fuccking person would write such, unless they had guilt for liking it, and delusions wanting to not feel so bad about themself for liking it, or either doing it to others now themself, IN A MORE "LESS HARMFUL WAY"...

HE'S FUCCKING WACKED.

he's nothing but a self validator of HIMSELF, or he wouldn't even begin to pen such crap.

they shall indeed find child porn, no QUESTION ABOUT IT, unless he is smart enough to cover his tracks...

but, then again, since the book belies his narcissistic self delusional thinking process, no way...

he aint smart enough to not get caught.

it will be on the news in a few days.

I don't understand how it's not a federal case since it happened across state lines. I know the FBI and US Marshalls are good at getting pedophiles.