Posted on 12/15/2022 7:17:29 AM PST by Red Badger
Miranda Galbreath, a licensed professional counselor who provides evaluations and treatment to sex offenders in prison and in her community, called for the destigmatizing of pedophiles in a YouTube video posted in July.
Galbreath, who is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), called pedophiles “minor-attracted persons,” claiming they are “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture” in the video.
“Most folks are making incorrect assumptions about them [pedophiles] without actually knowing much about them, and those assumptions create harm for an already marginalized population,” Galbreath said.
“You may have noticed that I’m using the term ‘minor-attracted persons,’ sometimes abbreviated to MAPs, instead of the more commonly used term pedophile. And I’m doing this because the term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them,” she continued.
Galbreath claimed pedophiles do not “choose” to be attracted to children.
“They’ve not chosen this attraction, just as the rest of us have not chosen whatever our attraction is. You don’t choose to be heterosexual, or to be gay, or whatever you are, and you don’t get to choose to be a minor-attracted person.”
Galbreath also claimed there is a distinction between being sexually attracted to children and molesting children.
“Just like all the rest of us, acting on an attraction is a choice that we make,” she said.
Galbreath bemoaned the fact that there isn’t a lot of research on pedophiles, claiming this is due to false stigma attached to people who want to have sex with children.
“We unfortunately do not have a lot of good research on minor-attracted folks because the label is so stigmatizing that most of these folks do not feel safe to come forward to participate in research or seek support when they need it,” she continued.
“Most of these folks hide their attraction for fear of losing their entire life if they came out as a minor-attracted person. They risk losing their family, their friends, their job, and their safety in the community if people knew of their attraction,” Galbreath said.
And of course it is a poofter in a dress.
Uh, yep baldy. They do. Just as they can choose not to be. They need psychiatric help.
“they are “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture”
No shit.
There is nothing that can be said to make it any different. Mess with kids and you will die in a most unpleasant way. And that’s just for openers.
Another GROOMER trying to normalize RAPING CHILDREN, Un frikkin believable.
When it looks like society is rife with people have been turned over to depraved minds do not be surprised to learn when all is said and done that they had been.
The fruit of depravity is evidence of apostasy that came first.
The MAY be true.
They always have a choice on whether they act on that "attraction" and assault some kid.
Keep them marginalized and stigmatized.
In any ‘normal’ society, this woman would be dragged from her office and tarred and feathered.....................
Trump supporters have it even worse, in Blue states.
Plus, the implication she's making is that there's nothing wrong with them as long as they don't molest children. The problem is even if they don't molest children, they are almost certainly consuming child porn, and those children are by definition being exploited.
Sounds like this person is outing herself as a pedophile. She probably needs to be investigated, but will never happen. The darkness of so many of these people sure has been exposed. They no longer are afraid to keep their desires hidden from society.
That's possible. They might have been molested themselves as children.
Perhaps those who are a danger to children should just be locked in an asylum.
But those who have abused children, regardless of the source of their attraction, should be put in prison.
Back when I was a parole officer, they used to call sex offenders “rape-o’s”. They didn’t have much life expectancy in the slammer.
My late brother in law was a prison psychologist. Child molesters had to be segregated from the general population behind bars because it was tantamount to a death sentence otherwise. Of all the pedos he counseled (he hated that part of the job) not a single one showed any regret because they didn’t believe they had done anything wrong.
The only “cure” for pedophiles is a quick injection of lead just behind their ears.
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Burn baby burn.
I think “we are here” was the 90s. This is the tsunami. I just live in lower-lying regions than some.
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