Mary Eberhardt also wrote about this in The Weekly Standard: Pedophilia Chic:
"The notorious North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), predictably enough, cheered the study as 'good news.' Less explicable was the reaction within the gay press, which not only failed to distance its movement from the study, but went on to excoriate the APA's critics (particularly Laura Schlessinger).
"Writing in the New York Times Magazine , prominent author and activist Andrew Sullivan complained about the 'sour reception' that had greeted the study. After all, he wrote, Rind et al. had found that 'lasting psychological trauma among adult survivors of abuse, particularly for men, was much less than feared.' This, according to Sullivan, should be 'a reason for relief.' Instead, and what he evidently found disagreeable, 'outraged members of the religious right accused the APA of tolerating pedophilia' and 'launched a crusade to punish the organization.' He concluded sarcastically: 'That'll teach them to look on the bright side.' ... But at the same time Rauch, like Sullivan, avoided the real issue at hand—that 'Meta-Analytic' quite obviously aimed at de-stigmatizing boy pedophilia itself. Even more startling, though, was his bland depiction of Paidika . This is not exactly a journal in which pro-pedophile ideas have somehow surfaced accidentally. It is a publication dedicated to the phenomenon of 'boy-loving,' the most prominent such 'scholarly journal' in the world, whose long-time editor, the late Edward Brongersma, was a convicted pedophile as well as the author of a two-volume pedophile classic, Loving Boys . (To describe this as a journal which 'had taken pro-pedophilia stands' is akin to describing The Weekly Standard as a magazine where conservative arguments have reportedly appeared.) And, of course, the qualifier '23 and just out of college' served to soften Bauserman's earlier appearance in Paidika , suggesting it was an excess of youth."
"According to that view, the problem is less sex with minors than the people who declare themselves against it—Dr. Laura fans, congressmen, dissident therapists, religious types, and anyone else who does not grasp the necessity of putting words like 'child sexual abuse' in quotes."