Posted on 10/05/2025 1:28:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
According to sociologist Peter Berger, his discipline is “an intrinsically debunking discipline that should be congenial to nihilists, cynics, and other fit subjects for police surveillance,” and the popular suspicion of sociology is grounded in “a sound instinct for survival.” That quotation is found in historian Page Smith’s fine book, Killing the Spirit (1990). An example supporting Berger’s warning is a recent paper published in the American Sociological Association’s journal Sex and Sexualities, titled “Childhood Sexualities: On Pleasure and Meaning from the Margins.”
Not surprisingly the paper’s primary author, Deevia Bhana, holds the South African Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The relatively short article (c. 3,000 words) is written in the opaque intellectual jargon that has dominated academic discourse for the last half-century. Here’s a typical paragraph:
Re-centering pleasure at the margins therefore confronts both colonial and heteropatriarchal logics, insisting that children’s own accounts of what feels good, exciting, or frightening are legitimate sources of knowledge. Thus, letting children “do” sexual pleasure in their own way is vital for their sense of their own agency. Yet, only by tracing the circuits in which race, class, gender, and age secure or foreclose pleasure can we theorize children’s sexual worlds.
After wading through Bhana’s “scholarly” verbiage, the Manhattan Institute’s Dr. Colin Wright observed that the peer-reviewed paper views “childhood innocence” as a “colonial fiction” and that it urges us to see children as sexual beings. Wright concludes, “It is hard to read this [paper] as anything other than laying the intellectual groundwork for dismantling age-of-consent protections.” Beyond Bhana’s tributes to age, race, class, sex, and other power-based distinctions, it’s clear she minimizes the danger of sexualizing children and embraces “diverse” expressions of childhood pleasure.
Unfortunately, the sexualization of children has been going on in plain sight...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Our culture has many moving parts. And a great many of those parts are moving toward pedophilia. I think it’s one of the dominant undercurrents of the past 50 years (at least).
I’m grateful that they let me be a kid.
I read a study that said that 50% of homosexual men reported that they had been molested as minors by homosexual men. I am guessing that many did not want to reflect badly on the gay community and lied. I think the number could be closer to 75% or more.
That's hilarious. And true. It's ironic how many of the voices decrying the treatment of women as sex objects now indulge in that precise treatment toward children. This is something far darker than mere hypocrisy.
It’s just a new investment frontier. Give kids sexual rights, get them hooked to sex like candy and, viola... a new market that is legit. Like pot is legit in Canada. Pedophiles and creepers will creep, government will tax, and everybody is happy. It’s all normal and legal, what more can you ask!
Along the same lines is an article written in2024
A Review of Academic Use of the Term “Minor Attracted Persons”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11545205/
It’s worth a read to see where academia is headed regarding pedophilia as an orientation.
The article is worth the read but the authors’ get political in their summation and show their left wing bias. Even though I should be clear they are against calling pedophiles MAP and treating it as another orientation.
This is why they need to recruit children. We’re seeing that with the Break the Floor scandal, Obergefell’s rules, the Respect for Marriage Act, MTV’s RuPaul Womanface Minstrels, and the rest.
There is a reason studios push shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO over networks and cinemas. There are no rules, and pornography can be broadcast without fear.
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