“Following the public outcry of the Rind study, APA said moral values trumped the scientific study.”
These are the same moral values that didn’t trump their pseudoscientific studies back when they pushed homosexuality.
What a joke, and a sick one at that.
Once you’ve redefined buggery as normal, it’s hard to know where to put the stake in the ground anymore. But the good news is that eventually psychiatrists will redefine themselves right out of business. After all, when nothing’s abnormal, there’s nothing left to treat.
The cure for pedophilia will then be plumbum fulminus — burning lead.
How about Punishable By Death? That has a nice ring to it.
I can describe pedophilia:
“Death Sentence”.
ping
the leftist perverts have an agenda and the rest of the APA are half-crazy themselves
They have already convinced the lawmakers that we no longer have to institutionalize the mentally disturbed we can treat them all at out patient clinic facilicties because WE ALL know they can be trusted to take thier meds. So the walk the street of big cities. These docs are crazier than the people they treat
If they manage tp redefine to sexual orientation, any and all reaction to pedophiles will be illegal.
In DSM-IV, APA changed the criteria, saying that pedophilia was only a disorder if it “caused clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning.”
Call me unsubtle, but it occurs to me that molesting kiddies does constitute "distress or impairment in social functioning." I note, too, the focus of the second definition is on clinically significant distress or impairment in social, etc, functioning on the part of the molester. What it causes in the victim appears not to be considered at all.
There has been a large hue and cry of late in the arbitrariness of pedophilia laws in the case of, say, an 18-year-old prosecuted for having sex with a 17-year-old. By focusing on that sort of case the clinicians blur the distinction between that and a 50-year-old molesting a pre-teen. It isn't even close to the same thing. And if they write their clinical definitions to cover both cases they're kidding themselves and everyone else.
And they almost got away with it but for those meddling kids...
May we call it what it really is? Child molestation!
The APA has become co-opted by a political agenda.
If you want to cling to your religion, you will be able to cling to your religion. Period.
If you like your heritage, you will be able to keep your heritage. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
The DSM-V is a liberal’s wet dream.
Conservative mental health professionals do not us it.
What is scary is to think of the evolution of homosexuality after the APA ruling 40 years ago - from it not being a disorder to being a right with full legal protection, including “marriage”.
In 30 years, will it be illegal to prevent a pervert from raping your kid?
Slouching towards Gomorrah, indeed.
Likely, by the first of the year, anyone who finds fault with pederasts will be accused of a hate crime.
Homosexuals in the APA “normalized” homosexuality. Now pedophiles in the APA are attempting to “normalize” the rape of children. Bet your bottom dollar that many members of the APA are child molestors or have that inclination.
I either need to start pinging again or find someone else who wants to do it.
I don’t care what they say, there are two choices. Either homosexuals, pedophiles, necrophiles, animal humpers et al are mentally ill, or they are just plain evil. Choose one, APA.