'Nuff said.
Just damn.
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Posted on 09/23/2004 8:14:59 PM PDT by wagglebee
Are pedophiles the next campus “victim” group? A tiny but vocal group of academics are working to make the answer yes.
New York University Press’s Lavender Culture calls to demolish the “archaic” notions of “the innocence of children” and “the potential harmfulness of sex.” To do this, an essayist in the text advises readers to “proselytize” to “young gay people with the message that…they should get out of their families as soon as they can.” The danger of not doing this, the author explains, is having “future generations of gay people who wait until their twenties before they start to live.” The essay seeks the repeal of “repressive, ageist legislation.”
How did this rant against age of consent laws wind up in an ostensibly scholarly publication? Since the piece cites famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, New York University Press transforms it from screed to scholarship. The piece claims, for instance, that “the myth that children are not sexual beings . . . is maintained, after all, in the face of massive evidence to the contrary. . . . Infants in their cribs have orgasms — Kinsey documented them in babies less than a year old.”
UC-Santa Cruz Professor Gayle Rubin calls the government’s crackdown on child molesters “a savage and undeserved witch hunt.” Intolerance of pedophilia, she claims, has “more in common with ideologies of racism than with true ethics.” Rubin advances these opinions in the first essay of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, where she writes: “boy lovers are so stigmatized that it is difficult to find defenders for their civil liberties, let alone erotic orientation. Consequently, the police have feasted on them. Local police, the FBI and watchdog postal inspectors have joined to build a huge apparatus whose sole aim is to wipe out the community of men who love underaged youth.”
Rubin, too, cites Kinsey’s scholarship. She writes, “Alfred Kinsey approached the study of sex with the same uninhibited curiosity he had previously applied to examining species of wasp. His scientific detachment gave his work a refreshing neutrality.”
In a piece once used in a Cornell University course called “The Sexual Child,” Pat Califa writes, “Culturally induced schizophrenia allows parents to make sentimental speeches about the fleeting innocence of childhood and the happiness of years unbroken by carnal lust — and exhaust themselves policing the sex lives of their children. Children are celibate because their parents prevent them from playing with other little kids or adults.”
Public Sex, the tome where this essay resides, leans on Kinsey to grant science’s imprimatur to child-adult sex. Califa states, “Even though many prominent sex researchers have documented the existence of sexual capacity in children (for instance Kinsey verified the occurrence of orgasm in girls and boys at less than six months of age), our society is fanatically determined to deny it.”
Actually, Kinsey didn’t verify anything. Child molesters with whom he corresponded with supposedly “documented the existence of sexual capacity in children.” Kinsey took them at their word, and dressed up their findings as his, as “science.”
Aversion to child-adult sexual contacts, Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male maintained, is “culturally conditioned.” Pedophiles don’t harm children in most cases, the Indiana University professor argued, but the “hysteria” caused by police, parents, and others in authority does. According to Kinsey’s pedophiles, who became “trained observers” in his reports, signs of “orgasm” for children as young as infants included “violent cries,” “loss of color,” and an “abundance of tears.” This wasn’t science. This was perverts rationalizing their criminal behavior.
It took more than 30 years for academics to mount a serious challenge to Kinsey. In 1981, when Judith Reisman exposed Kinsey’s pseudoscience, other academics who found Kinsey’s scholarship politically useful ignored Reisman’s revelations. As shown by the rhetoric of Gayle Rubin and other academics, they still do.
The free ride Alfred Kinsey received from intellectuals more than a half-century ago has left us with a valuable lesson: When you don’t rebut junk science the first time around, it begets more junk science.
My hope is that all of them become "victims" of a "friendly" cellmate named Bubba.
NAMBLA isn't an old organization getting smaller, it's a new organization getting larger.
In the next 20 years, they will have a member serving as an elected official.
Anything I would have to say about those "academics" would only get my reply yanked.
The way he did his 'research' was invasive, assaultive, and criminal. That's because those children were comparable to 'wasps' to him. The man was a monster who abused children in the name of science then got famous for it. And the intelligentsia swallowed it all, hook, line, and sinker.
Yeah, but it sure is tempting!
God forgive me; I despise them with every fiber of my being.
Well, let's put it this way: it compares with what is done with a mad dog....
Just because someone has a "sexual capacity" at a young age doesn't mean we have licencse to abuse that person sexually, or manipulate children into doing our wont.
I've dealt with this mentality (and it is not limited to homosexuals) when working in my state to raise the age of consent laws (from 14 to 16). Invariably, the chorus arose, mostly from adult straight men, that the law would "inhibit" the sexuality of the young, in particular, young women who they are interested in exploiting.
In fact it does not such thing. Statutory rape laws make it illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor. It does not make sex or sexuality illegal for the minor.
'Nuff said.
Just damn.
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I think anyone should be able to emancipate themselves at any age, but that should require paying your own bills and housing cost, which many "kids" don't do until they're 30 years old... (by then they've learned about disability scams and other ways to live off of working people).
Notwithstanding, such "academics" should simply be shot without charge or trial. (In theory only, of course; I am not a vigilante.)
Thank you, for putting into graphic format what I wanted to say.
Lock up all these sick "academic" bastards.
If they preach it, they practice it.
IMO, even 16 is too young.
This is the sad nature of the Liberal. Everything can be rationalized... nothing is black and white... there is no evil...
I see a number of very sad and unfortunate things happening here. The Nambla people calling themselves the next "civil rights" group who need to break the bonds of oppession. They will rationalize that kids have sex now at age 12-13... and some freeky academics will come out with why it is good for children to experience sex with an "adult" first... cause studies show... yada yada yada...
Expect to see this happening within the next 20 years...
Oh and while I am at it expect to see the ACLU try to change the "year" also because it is based on the birth of Christ and so because of separation of church and state we need to start a new year... like when Lenin was born.
You know the more we let these "used car salesmen" socialists into our society the more we are destroying out grandchildren's future.
Sorry for the rant.
Sharp as an orange.
What a ridiculous and disgusting article. While there are children that are "sexually" able beings physically, these people do not take into consideration the fact that these children are not even close to being emotionally ready for sex. They also do not understand the ramifications or consequences from such actions.
So what now? Will the bleeding heart liberal types take up "ageism" as a euphemism for pedophilia as their next cause du jour? I hope to God this country can stick to a very clearly drawn line of "tolerance" that is crossed when you advocate pedophilia. If we waver even a bit in the interests of pursuing the latest "sexy" pseudo-intellectual amoral trend here...
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