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Semantics: seeing I to I, or not?

Many people have differing opinions and regurgitated definitions of what certain words mean. I respect personal opinions whether I agree with them or not, but I make a *”so-so”/”really?”* looking face when somebody digs up a dictionary or DSM definition of word. Specifically, I am talking about the words pedophile, boylover, and child molester. New […]

Reidy
Last modified on June 4, 2008

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: […]

Strato
Last modified on May 29, 2008

Too Young For Euphoria?

Round n round n round I spun at age nine, arms floating wide in the open air; almost as if being helicopter propellers.  Sometimes, I’d even lift my feet off the ground testing if I could stay off the ground…I always crashed on the floor, of course… I remember back to days long before the […]

Steve Diamond
Last modified on May 15, 2008

Byron confronts a pedophile on BBC television

On May 5, 2008, the BBC broadcast an edition of ‘Am I normal?’ on the subject of sex, presented by the media-friendly clinical psychologist Tanya Byron. It included an interview with a pedophile; an ‘out’ (but non-practising) girl-lover, who has been bravely campaigning for wider acceptance of child-love and for the abolition of age-of-consent laws […]

Stephen James
Last modified on May 9, 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 […]

Stephen James
Published on April 28, 2008

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 […]

Stephen James
Last modified on April 26, 2008

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 […]

Llort
Last modified on April 13, 2008

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 – […]

Strato
Last modified on April 8, 2008

To Be Of Service: Your Political “Duty”, as a Sexual Deviant…

So many of the problems surrounding our modern, “sex is abuse” approach, spring forward from our action of trying to box the entire issue up into a, “sex is this” and “sex is not that” kind of indoctrination. …Does someone, somewhere “own” the patent on the entire idea of sex?… …Apparently, some people have fooled […]

Steve Diamond
Last modified on March 18, 2008

The Parrot in the Cage

Anyone familiar with Jodorowsky’s ‘El Topo‘, will vividly recall the opening scene, in which El Topo leads his son, naked on horseback, into the desert. There, he instructs him to bury his first toy and a photo of his mother. “You are seven years old”, he tells him, “You are a man”. This is inconceivable […]

Strato
Last modified on March 13, 2008