Category: Strato
A Ripple in a Pond?
A UK think-tank today issued a report (‘Licensed to Hug’) which states that “the dramatic escalation of child protection measures has succeeded in poisoning the relationship between the generations and creating an atmosphere of suspicion that actually increases the risks to children”. See http://www.civitas.org.uk/blog/2008/06/licensed_to_hug.html for the full story. Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the […]
UK: Criminalizing Child Erotica in Cartoons and Sketches. A Step Too Far?
Yesterday, the UK’s ‘Ministry of Justice’ (do they also have Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty?) announced plans to implement new legislation, criminalizing possession of cartoons, drawings and sketches of child erotica. This announcement follows a ‘public consultation’ last June. The full Report, published yesterday, is available in .pdf format from: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/non-photographic-depictions.htm). In summary: […]
The Words They Are A-Changin’
Our ‘culture’ consists of the knowledge and values transmitted by our language. In the process of learning language, we learn the meanings that other people have ascribed to particular words and phrases. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – […]
The Daily Lives of Minor Attracted Individuals
A research project is being conducted at the University of Winchester, UK, on an ‘internet-based sample of individuals who are sexually attracted to children or adolescents’, and seeks to ‘gather reliable data from this population, and to publish the results and conclusions drawn from the data ethically and impartially’. The lead researcher is Dr. Sarah […]
CEOP, Educational Policy and ‘Protection of Children’
One of the great problems of modern society is that people lack the ability for independent thought. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the post-War generations. Raised on a diet of materialism, television advertising and the spoon-fed government-enforced propaganda of compulsory education, they grow into adults who have no thoughts that have not been […]