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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity;MadIvan
"Um...wasn't there some sort of position paper floated by the entirely lib/PC APA some while ago which tried to question whether sex with minors was really such a bad thing after all? Has the media forgotten their own ideological fellow travelers' role here?"


Pedophiles Argue Their Case in the Journal of Homosexuality

The Problem of Pedophilia

More on the Pedophilia Question

On Positive Reports of Adult-Child Relationships: Taking a Closer Look

On the Pedophilia Issue: What the APA Should Have Known

Is Pedophilia Really Being Normalized?


As Mary Eberstadt wrote in "Pedophilia Chic" Reconsidered - The taboo against sex with children continues to erode:

"...For elsewhere in the public square, the defense of adult-child sex—more accurately, man-boy sex—is now out in the open. Moreover, it is on parade in a number of places—therapeutic, literary, and academic circles; mainstream publishing houses and journals and magazines and bookstores—where the mere appearance of such ideas would until recently have been not only unthinkable, but in many cases, subject to prosecution...

...Plainly, as the record even then showed, a surprising number of voices were willing to rise up on behalf of what advocates refer to as "man-boy love," or what most people call sexual abuse..."

For one thing, no sustained public challenges have arisen over other primal taboos. Even more telling, if nihilism and nihilism alone were the explanation for public attempts to legitimize sex with boy children, then we would expect the appearance of related attempts to legitimize sex with girl children; and these we manifestly do not see. Nobody, but nobody, has been allowed to make the case for girl pedophilia with the backing of any reputable institution. Publishing houses are not putting out acclaimed anthologies and works of fiction that include excerpts of men having sex with young girls. Psychologists and psychiatrists are not competing with each other to publish studies demonstrating that the sexual abuse of girls is inconsequential; or, indeed, that it ought not even be defined as "abuse."

Two examples from the last few weeks will suffice to show the double standard here. In the November 12 New York Times Book Review, a writer found it unremarkable to observe of his subject, biographer Gavin Lambert, that when "Lambert was a schoolboy of 11, a teacher initiated him [into homosexuality], and he 'felt no shame or fear, only gratitude.'" It is unimaginable that New York Times editors would allow a reviewer to describe an 11-year-old girl being sexually "initiated" by any adult (in that case, "initiation" would be called "sexual abuse"). Similarly, in mid-December the New York Times Magazine delivered a cover piece about gay teenagers in cyberspace which was so blasé about the older men who seek out boys in chat rooms that it dismissed those potential predators as mere "oldies." Again, one can only imagine the public outcry had the same magazine published a story taking the same so-what approach to online solicitation, off-line trysts, and pornography "sharing" between anonymous men and underage girls."


Additional information:

Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM PRO-HOMOSEXUALITY PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS

Assemblyman MOUNTJOY opposes promotion of homosexuality in public schools

Research Group Warns Schools of Homosexual Propaganda

40 posted on 03/20/2002 7:24:51 AM PST by EdReform
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To: EdReform
OK. How come the APA and NAMBLA aren't being grilled and interrogated on TV right now?
Any explanation for that? Aside from anti-Catholic bias? Would, say, Barney Frank like to be
interviewed for his opinions on gay sex with younger males?
What about the shrinks and psychologists who gave the Church advice on pedophilia in the 1970s
and 1980s? Where are they? Shouldn't we, as Catholics, sue them? Isn't this really a homosexual
and psychobabble scandal as much as a "Catholic" one?
42 posted on 03/20/2002 7:33:53 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: EdReform
Excellent information and resource material. Thanks.
60 posted on 03/20/2002 12:41:24 PM PST by scottiewottie
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