Posted on 09/26/2017 9:08:28 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
A Christian sociologist is sounding the alarm that recent scholarship is suggesting that sex between adults and minors has no long-term damage on the children. And whereas in years past this kind of research would have been roundly condemned publicly, it is now being met with silence.
Writing in the Public Discourse Monday, Mark Regnerus, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin and author of Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy, noted a disturbing development in both the dissemination and public consumption of research on sex and sexuality.
The Archives of Sexual Behavior journal published in the past year two studies by psychologist Bruce Rind, both of which claim that "minor-adult sex tends not to be reported as a bad experience, as unwanted, or as one with longstanding negative consequences," Regnerus explained.
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Nearly two decades ago, Rind wrote in a 1998 issue of Psychological Bulletin that the long-term destructive effects of child abuse are overestimated, a claim that both the American Psychological Association and both Houses of Congress rejected publicly.
Today, however, with this newer research "Rind is banking on a more amenable political and scholarly atmosphere in which to conclude comparable things. And from the sound of it—or rather, the utter lack of sound—he has gotten his wish. There has been no congressional concern, no APA scrutiny, just silence," Regnerus said.
With that notable lack of professional and government condemnation, the sociologist believes that Rind's scholarship will likely serve to weaken age of consent laws. He predicts that those who hesitate to embrace Rind's conclusions may soon be considered "out of touch, narrow-minded, or worse, hateful" in broader society as has been the case with things that were once considered inconceivable like same-sex marriage and transgender children.
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anyone who has ever dealt with an adult who was abused sexually, even if not “forced” in their youth, can tell you damned well this study is complete hogwash
Just like the ones who claim children raised by homosexuals thrive just as much as those raised in a in tact home by their biological parents.
Or the ones that claim homosexuality innate.
All complete crap
E X A C T L Y !
Moving the goalpost is all this is about.
The goal is one day old.
Don’t anyone kid yourself.
These are twisted people, and that becomes the driving factor.
*quiting*=quoting
16 sounds OK, but unfortunately, the Muzzies would have a field day with that one.
I was reading an older farmer history journal... MANY of the women/wifes were literally teens... 14 15 16 was not as uncommon as you might think...
Search “Bruce Rind” that will tell you all you need to know.
Absolutely false and that’s not my opinion. Sex abuse changes you immediately and forever. One will never be the same person as one might have been.
Some states used to have ages of consent as young as ten. I think 16 would be a good cut-off; since some teens go at it like rabbits, they might as well have the option to marry. But again, 55-year-old Muzzies would make a ruin of the whole thing marrying their 16-year-old, one-generation-removed cousins.
A fate worse than death. That is what I will believe, no matter what some slanted study proclaims.
Tell it to Anthony Weiner.
Sounds like the Socialist Left Intelligentsia needs intellectual consensus to shore up the Pedophile vote for the DemoRats.
NAMBLA - everyone should join.
Well, who didn’t see this coming? The perverts want access to our children.
I keep getting a 404 error when I click on the link.
Commie Normalization Schedule:
Homosexuality - DONE
Plural Marriages - In-progress
Incest - In-progress
Pederasty - In-progress - < WE Currently ARE HERE
Pedophilia - Explored but not pursued
If you lower the age, then it’s open season on our youth, girls and boys, for homosexual sex.
Do you think it is the heterosexual lobby driving this?
It isn’t.
I thought it was the cougar lobby...
So I would say in her case 13 might not have been too young.
“I don’t know what word they’ll use but you’ll be against love. “
Nailed it.
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