Month: April 2008
The Dangers of Sex Abuse Therapy
The standard ‘therapy’ for ‘sexually abused’ children and adolescents is not only pointless, but positively harmful when applied to those who have been involved in consensual relationships. Try to put yourself into the mind of a child or adolescent who has been willingly involved in sex acts with an adult. You may already have been […]
Finkelhor’s Flaws: Why David Finkelhor is misguided on child-adult sex
At http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/fink_baus_91.htm David Finkelhor says this: Ultimately, I do continue to believe that the prohibition on adult-child sexual contact is primarily a moral issue. While empirical findings have some relevance they are not the final arbiter. The social judgment that slavery is reprehensible would not have been challenged by empirical findings that some slaves felt […]
Mind out for Mindspeak…
…Daniel Lièvre’s rebuttal of AMC’s March 13 article for Absolute Zero (an anti-pedophile organisation). The article concerned appears to be an attempt to use cherry-picked and unsupported medical literature to (illegitimately) justify the current trend of intense hatred directed towards minor attracted persons – a group, it appears, taxonomically confused with child sex offenders and […]
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 – […]