[LoneGOPinCT]

I find the first paragraph very disturbing. Are they really equating pedophiles with alcoholics? Seems as though they are somehow trying to make it acceptible by diminishing the act itself to a mere disorder.

Or am I just reading too much into it?

[Bommer]

"Very little has been done to appreciate pedophilia as a public health problem," Berlin said. "There is virtually no place for people who are struggling with their urges to go."

Try Greece or Afghanistan! Its normal and accepted practice! Why even see it as a problem? I mean Homosexuality is an acceptible practice. Maybe they scumbags were born with a child-screwing gene like homosexuals claim to have been born with their "gay-gene". Once homosexuality became acceptible in society, nothing sexual can be considered abnormal! Screw a man, screw a child, screw your dog! Deviant behavior is in the strength of the Lobbying Group protraying this behavior as normal!

[Roxan]

ping to self

[lavaroise]

The alcoholic used to be "the bum in the gutter" until society developed a more enlightened view of the disease

Many are still the bum in the gutter.

Doctors should keep to medicine and out of jurisdictional science. I am getting sick and tired of these people skirting juries and justice in cases of abortion, drug addiction, rapes, theft, murder etc...

[Salvation]

I find the first paragraph very disturbing. Are they really equating pedophiles with alcoholics?

Yes, a sickness and an addiction.

[LadyDoc]

Back in the 1980's, there was a trend to "treat" pedophiles (which is why naive bishops often followed the advice of specialists who told them not the throw out sexual predcators). And a recent perusal of the literature shows that such treatment programs are still being done, although the most recent report is mainly on young predators. LINK

[maxwell]

Dr. Fred Berlin, a major figure in research and treatment of sexual disorders, hopes that pedophilia will someday be viewed in much the same way as alcoholism - as a psychiatric illness, not simply as a moral failing.

Seems to me there was another "paraphilia" that made it out of the shrink texts and into mainstream society once upon a time...

[EdReform]

Note to NAMBLA:

"Pedophilia is considered one of the most dangerous of these disorders because sex with a child is always criminal and exploitative."