Re: Pedophilia is okay? (A little shorter)

[Linda M. Woolf]

Jessica Le and Luke Dalfiume wrote:

 
I have not been able to verify the information in the article, and wanted to know if any of you could verify the truth of what is said in this article.  Are the "Academic Pedophile Advocates" a significant group?

By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.
? 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

In 1977 I first clashed with a group of people I call "Academic Pedophile
Advocates" at the British Psychological Association's "Conference on Love
and Attraction" at Swansea University in Wales. Ostensibly an "academic"
conference, the meeting attracted outraged press coverage when the leader of
the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), Tom O'Carroll, announced he had
been invited to lecture on positive adult-child sex.

I think the key words are "I call" - in other words, its not a formal organization or group.   By careful wording, she attempts to make this sound as if a professional group exists but a search of all newspapers/magazines does not produce a mention of this group.

 
At that conference, an old colleague of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, (author of Sexual
Behavior in the Human Male) whispered confidentially to me that Kinsey was a
pedophile. While I was shocked at the time, later research confirmed that
Kinsey had spawned today's Academic Pedophile Advocates. By 1987 many such
academicians came out as pedophiles in their pseudo scholarly, publication,
The Journal of Paedophilia while professors in major universities worked
covertly to gain unlimited sexual access to their children, and ours.

The Journal of Paedophilia does indeed exist.

Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield received quite a bit of flack for an interview they conducted in 1993.  The abstract from their response Misinterpretation of a Primary Prevention Effort is provided below.   Full text can be found at:  http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g012/under006/Library/Misinterpretation.html

ABSTRACT: In 1990, Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield gave an interview to the editor of Paidika, The Journal of
Paedophilia, a scholarly journal published in Holland. The interview was published in 1993. Since that time, statements from the
interview have been taken out-of-context and misinterpreted as indicating that RU and HW approve of pedophilia and child sexual
abuse. Here, they respond to these criticisms and accusations.

 

Radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger recently exposed such pedophile advocacy
in the powerful American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

My guess is that she is referring to the following article:   Rind, B., Tromovitch, P., and Bauserman, R. (1998)., A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 22-53.

 
Dr. Laura concluded that the APA, representing 155,000 members, had "gone
soft" on child molesters. "I'm scared this study could be used to normalize
pedophilia, to change the legal system ... like it did homosexuality.

Talk about confusing apples and oranges.  Need I even mention that homosexuality involves consensual relations between adults and pedophilia involves sexual contact where one of the parties is unable to give consent.  Not only are children too young to legally give consent but a power differential exists between adult and child.
 

True, but the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
(NARTH), noted that "the American Psychiatric Association already set the
stage ... [in] the latest diagnostic manual (DSMIV), a person no longer has
a psychological disorder simply because he molests children." Thus the APA
created psychologically normal" paedophiles.

The NARTH article concludes, "If psychology indeed recognizes consensual
pedophilia as harmless, then civil law and social norms will be under
pressure to follow the lead of social science as indeed they did on the
issue of homosexuality."

She is citing the following:    http://www.narth.com/docs/pedoph.html
and to a lesser extent:  http://www.narth.com/docs/arguecase.html

Said Schlessinger to her listeners. "I've read this so many times, I'm
sick." "Psychology has become a god to the general public. ... If pedophilia
is not a mental disorder, what is it?"

Criminal behavior?

 

Later we'll talk about how Academic Pedophile Advocates are bringing a
"pedophile abduction rights" bill to a theater near you. For example, in
1994 Oregon Senate Bill 586 proposed that anyone who "established emotional
ties with child may file ... for custody, guardianship, visitation" if they
had "a relationship ... within the six months ... through interaction,
companionship, interplay and mutuality." Stay tuned. Anyone smell an APA
rat?

Hmmmm . . .  so I guess that anyone who has an emotional bond with a child (eg. a grandparent, a foster parent, etc.) must be engaged in pedophilia?

Recipe for the Reisman article:  Take a little bit of data, throw in a batch of emotionally charged words, selectively cut and paste reference material, half-bake on 350 for twenty minute.

Warm regards,

linda

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linda m. woolf, ph.d.
associate professor - psychology
webster university

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