Psychiatric Association Debates Lifting Pedophilia Taboo

CNSNews.com ^ | 6/11/03 | Lawrence Morahan

[FairOpinion]

"of pedophilia from an upcoming edition of the psychiatric manual of mental disorders."

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That is how the homosexuality fad started...

Lock up your kids. And I bet the homosexuals are behind this, they need a fresh crop of little homosexuals trained early. Just remember all the priest pedophilia cases, they were virtually all homosexual molestations.

[Houmatt]

The problem (for them) is that GID is easily treatable and has a pretty good cure rate.

So is pedophilia, with a 100% success rate I might add.

It's called a bullet in the head.

[Houmatt]

Well, I have to be honest, I had a physical attraction to Hillary Duff (I mean, look at her!). Until I found out she was only 15.

Thing is, at first glance (in this case, the movie poster for The Lizzie McGuire Movie), you would not know it. And that can certainly be a problem in statutory rape cases, girls are physically maturing so fast.

I'll tell you straight away if Hillary was my daughter, any man that touched her would be 100% frickin' dead.

[EdReform]

BTTT for later...

[ColdSteelTalon]

People whose sexual interests are atypical, culturally forbidden or religiously proscribed should not necessarily be labeled mentally ill, they argued.Well they are not crazy just very very wicked.

[MattAMiller]

"Yes, my client knows that XYZ is not a usual practice and is even condemned by many others in society. And, yes, he still does it. And we know now it's not a mental illness. We know he isn't 'crazy'. So the question is not 'Did he do it?' but 'Why did he do it?' Because it is his sexual orintation. Something he was born with. Something over which he has no control..."

I think the response to to that would be "Then he just needs to be locked up and kept away from kids." Which is sort of where most people are at anyways I think. People don't oppose pedophilia just because they think it's icky, they oppose it because there's a victim.

[FeliciaCat]

A friend of mine in the med industry does business with ALOT of Psychiatrists. She swears they are as nutty as any of their patients.

The few I have met, I tend to agree with her.

[dead]

It shouldn't be considered an illness in need of treatment for the "afflicted."

It should be considered a crime in need of execution for the perpetrator.

[ColdSteelTalon]

People whose sexual interests are atypical, culturally forbidden or religiously proscribed should not necessarily be labeled mentally ill, they argued. Well they are not crazy just very very wicked.

[murdoog]

I mean, "everybody knows" that "gays" are more sensitive, artistic, creative, intelligent,

You left out "fabulous"

[nickcarraway]

If anybody is surprised by that, I have a bridge in New York you may be interested in.

[Qwerty]

"Oh please, society is a group of individuals and you know that’s who and what I was addressing. .. Nice try again at sophistry though."

Ok.. then address which rights of these collective individuals are being violated by private consensual adult sodomy. As a side note, can you go through a single thread without saying "sophistry"?

"so AGAIN where is sodomy listed in the constitution like gun ownership"

See my earlier posts. We can go around on this all day.

"I’m prepared to live by the constitution unlike you and if you live in one the states that has sodomy laws that would make you a felon."

More BS from you. AND... now you pretend to know what sexual practices I engage in? Quit thinking about what I get up to, Clint.

On to what you think the government should busy itself with and has an interest in...

"It does for the sake of society, like consensual pedophilia, bestiality, drug and euthanasia laws."

Disagree, except for pedophilia and euthanasia.. but those arguments are for another time. Try to stick to a single topic.

"Nope, the truth is not an attack on ones character, it’s simply the truth."

Ad hominem means instead of debating the points of the argument, you debate characteristics of your opponent. It may be true or untrue. Once again you show problems understanding definitions and logical fallacies.

"This thread is about paraphilic disorder so homosexuality, bestiality…are all included."

No, this thread as titled is about lifting pedophilia from the list of mental illnesses. It incorrectly states that the psychiatric association is trying to lift the taboo, but anyway.. it isn't about homosexuality.

So again.. If you want to argue about homosexuality, either mail me or keep it on a thread about homosexuality.

[L.N. Smithee]

Dr. Laura is on the air as I speak:
"I told you so. And I HATE being vindicated [by this news]."

[RobbyS]

I have a 1953 editor of Encyclopedia Americana. It is interesting to read the article on Homosexuality. What did they learn about homosexuality between 1953 and 1973? Nada!Yet they completely changed their view of it. So much for the "science" of it.

[First Amendment]

Again, we don't for the most part blame someone these days for their alcoholism; we don't see it simply as a moral weakness," he added.

Liberal/leftist/secular humanist/moral relativists in action. Nothing is a moral weakness because the only "sin" is to think that there is such a thing as "right and wrong". The only wrong is to tell someone they have a moral weakness, or proclaim some behavior or desire as wrong. They are hypocrites, fools, and want to destroy the world.

Anyone who thinks that paraphilias are not moral weaknesses probably seeks kiddie porn or worse on the Internet.

[First Amendment]

I reminded myself that the age-of-consent issue is one that will preclude the legalization of pedophilia, as far as the law is concerned.

Homo-activists have had as part of their platform to eliminate or lower the age of consent. In 1972 they officially wanted to eliminate it but since that was too extreme for societal acceptance they decided to lower it gradually. Check out Europe's age of consent laws - I believe the Netherland's is something like 12.

[L.N. Smithee]

Removing it as a mental illness is NOT condoning it, any more than saying murderers are not necessarily mentally ill. If you have a victim, it's still a crime.

Define "condone" -- and please, don't just give me a dictionary definition. Define it in the context of your above statement. What steps would the APA have to take to actually "condone" pedophilia, in your opinion?

[RobbyS]

Such redefinition perverts the very process of definition. Like the character in Alice in Wonderland/Through the ZLooking Glass, who said that words mean precisely what I want them to mean. This ignores the fact that thought we can conceive of many models, only some will fit reality.

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the nomination! };^D)

[RobbyS]

What I am am talking about is what Orwell deplored in "1984."