( CNN ) -- A Florida judge set bail at $ 15,000 Wednesday for a man who wrote a controversial book considered a `` how-to '' guide for pedophiles . Phillip Greaves , who was arrested in Colorado on Monday , said the book , `` The Pedophile 's Guide to Love and Pleasure : A Child-Lover 's Code of Conduct , '' can be used as a guide to rehabilitating pedophiles . And , instead of teaching them how to avoid arrest , it teaches them to avoid illegal actions , he said . Greaves has been charged with the distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct , Florida authorities said . He made his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Wednesday afternoon . His court appearance came a day after he held court in front of reporters explaining the nature of his book . Asked if he is a pedophile , Greaves said , `` I only have sex with grown-ups . '' He said he has no children and `` I do n't keep children around my house . '' Polk County , Florida , Sheriff Grady Judd has said his detectives were able to establish jurisdiction in the case by conducting an undercover operation , buying the book through the mail . Greaves protested Tuesday saying he is the target of entrapment , but Judd disagreed . `` He wrote this book , he published this book , he put it on Amazon to sell , '' Judd told reporters as Greaves was being booked into the Polk County Jail , `` and he freely responded to our desire to purchase it . '' Greaves and his book gained national attention earlier this year after Amazon.com defended selling the book on its website despite angry comments and threats of boycotts from thousands of people . The book was removed from the website in early November . Officials said the book talks about safe sex and avoiding injury to children , grooming and preparing children for sex and teaching children how to lie to their parents . Judd said Greaves ' book outlines a `` code of ethics '' that shows pedophiles how to look for the most vulnerable children . Greaves told reporters Tuesday he wrote the book to exorcise his own childhood . He said he was introduced to sex at the age of 7 by a 10-year-old friend and began having sex with other children . This continued , he said , until he was about 15 , when he stopped and did not have sex again for years . `` Once I got into adolescence , I suppose you could have identified me as an adolescent pedophile , '' he said . But now , he said , he is an example of the fact that people can reform . `` I think all speech should be protected , '' Greaves said . But `` I was not the one who solicited the material to be sent to Florida . I think Florida law is for Floridians and Colorado law is for Coloradoans . '' He told reporters he will not be able to make bond : `` I 'm actually quite poor . '' Judge John Kirkland said Wednesday in court that if Greaves does not post bail he must remain in Florida , can not have contact with anyone younger than 18 and can not have access to a computer . CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN 's `` AC360 '' Monday night that prosecutors may have a hard time convicting Greaves , and maintained his arrest was unconstitutional . `` I do n't think they can go forward because the book is clearly protected by the First Amendment , '' Toobin said . `` This book , as awful as it is , it is only words . '' Judd vehemently disagreed with Toobin 's assessment of the case and the two sparred on the program . `` This has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with obscenity , '' Judd said . `` We had a law in Florida that applied . We only needed jurisdiction . ''
New : A judge says Phillip Greaves did not leave Florida . This was his first court appearance . Greaves says he wrote the letter to ` ` exorcise '' his childhood . A deputy sheriff says Greaves ' arrest was not entrapment .