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From a book

Baurmann, Michael: 
"Highlights" from Baurmann; Translated quotes from 
Michael C. Baurmann,  Sexualität, Gewalt und psychische Folgen: Ein Längschnittuntersuchung bei Opfern sexueller Gewalt und sexuellen Norm-verletzungen anhand von angeziegten Sexualkontakten (Wiesbaden, Bundeskriminalamt Forschungsreihe Nr. 15, 1983) 
Looking at the effects of criminal sexual acts on the declared victim, it turned out that many reported sexual contacts did not cause any harm at all. From this, it follows that the uncritical use of terms like "victim" and "harmed" is, for a large portion of those who are registered as sexual victims, inappropriate. 
Obviously, the words "victim" and "harmed" strongly imply that the person in question has been injured. But for many of the persons interviewed here who became known as victims, these terms just do not apply.

Articles

ABC.net, Australia, Indian study reveals widespread child abuse; April 9, 2007 
Two out of three of the 12,446 respondents between the ages of five and 18 had been physically abused, which included slapping, kicking or beating with a stick, the study said, in most cases by parents or teachers. 
More than 50 per cent had been sexually abused in ways that ranged from severe, such as rape or fondling, to milder forms of molestation that included forcible kissing. 
The study also interviewed 2,324 young adults between the ages of 18 and 24, almost half of whom reported being physically or sexually abused as children. 
A fifth of the child respondents had experienced severe sexual abuse, the study said, and in almost 80 per cent of the cases the abuser was a person well known by the child. 

Angelides, Steven, The Emergence of the Paedophile in the Late Twentieth Century; 2005, University of Melbourne 
This article explores the cultural and historical conditions structuring the emergence of the category of the 'paedophile' in Western discourse in the latter part of the twentieth century. It argues not only that the 'paedophile' was an outgrowth of social and political power struggles around questions of normative masculinity and male sexuality, but also that homophobia played a central role in its formation. In addition to regulating social and intimate relations between men, woman and children, the category of the 'paedophile' was homosexualized in order to demarcate 'normal' from 'pathological' masculinities.

Arehart-Treichel, Joan, Pedophilia Often in Headlines, But Not in Research Labs Clinical & Research News, May 19, 2006, Volume 41, Number 10, page 37
Since the average age of child molesters in the United States is 13 years, helping families identify
adolescents who have fantasies about sexually molesting children might help keep those adolescents from acting on their fantasies. 

Bachmann, Klaus, Der Fall Dutroux; Was der Fall Dutroux auch in Deutschland anrichtete;  Frankfurter Algemeine, 5 -05-2004 
Was der Fall Dutroux auch in Deutschland anrichtete: Die Stigmatisierung harmloser Pädophiler.  Warum die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit für Pädophilen dazu geführt hat, die Gefahr für Kinder noch zu vergrößern.  
Experten: „Die Mehrheit der Pädophilen ist weder gefährlich, noch aggressiv". 
Und der belgische Kindervergewaltiger Marc Dutroux ist nie pädophil gewesen. 

Berlin, Fred: 
Hansen, Chris, What can be done to stop predators? NBC News Feb. 3, 2006 
Chris Hansen spoke to Dr. Fred Berlin, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Berlin has over 25 years of experience working with sexual offenders. 
'Some can be easily treated, some can't... and you've got the whole group in between,' says Fred Berlin, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. 
I've worked in this area for many years. And the findings surprised even me because what they found was, as a group, sex offenders have a lower rate of recidivism than people who commit other kinds of serious offenses. And yet the public perception, most of public policy, the way in which we view this problem today, is based upon exactly the opposite assumption. 

Bernard, Frits, La pédophilie; Les conséquences pour l'enfant; Le petit gredin n°2 - hiver 1982 - pp. 13-17 
Le problème posé était le suivant: Les relations ou les contacts sexuels entre un adulte, homme ou femme, et un garçon ou une fille de moins de seize ans ont-ils de mauvaises conséquences pour l'enfant? Si oui, quelles sont ces conséquences? 
Les conclusions dégagées à titre provisoire et avec la prudence qui s'impose sont les suivantes: 

Chauhan, Chetan,  Goverment to consider allowing consensual sex among children; Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 26, 2007 
Prompted by a finding in a government study that a certain number of young children have sex or engage in sexual activity for experimenting, the government is examining the possibility of exempting consensual sex between them from the purview of a criminal offence. [...]
What has apparently prompted the ministry to consider the option is a finding where 26.8 per cent young adults recalled having sexual experience during childhood and majority stating it was with friends and classmates and they were not in an abusive situation. 

Crenson, Matt, What makes a sexual predator? crimesucks.blogspot.com, March 19, 2007 
[About the Duncan case: what is in the brains? the genes? the youth? the environment?]

Father's horror in child sex scandal; 20th February 2007 
A father has spoken for the first time of the horror of having his three daughters and two foster children removed when they were wrongly diagnosed as sex abuse victims. 
It is the 20th anniversary of what became known as the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse Scandal - but many of those innocently accused still live with the pain of having their families torn apart. 

Grohol, John M., Children Reach Adult Brain Levels Sooner Than Previously Thought; Psych Central News Editor, May, 19, 2007. 
Review of: Waber DP et al. "The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development: Performance of a Population Based Sample of Healthy Children Aged 6 to 18 Years on a Neuropsychological Battery." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2007, Vol. 13, pp. 1-18. 

Review of
Hugh Brody, The People's Land; Inuit, Whites and the Eastern Arctic, (Penguin Books 1975) Douglas & McIntyre, 1991 paperback edition, 272 pp.: 

Clements, David, Every Child Matters - but so does our privacy; We must not accept state intrusion in our private lives in the name of children's 'well-being'. spiked-online, 16 October 2006 - Speech at the debate Does Every Child really Matter - has the abuse panic gone too far?, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on Sunday 29 October 2006. 
Under the Blair government's Every Child Matters reforms, local authorities and other agencies working with children are required to protect children under a new duty to 'safeguard' them and promote their welfare, to work together more closely and share information, and by creating new high-powered posts to oversee children's services. However, these reforms are not so much the antidote to child abuse panics, as implicated in them.

Comiteau, Lauren, Why Dutch Kids are Happier Than Yours; July 11, 2007 
Dutch children are the happiest children in the industrialized world. Don't take my word for it, that was the finding of an extensive survey in UNICEF's Report Card 7.
The U.S. by contrast finished second to last ahead of Britain.
So, what's the secret of Dutch happiness? 

The Economist, Liberalism and neurology - Free to choose? Modern neuroscience is eroding the idea of free will; The Economist, Dec 19th 2006 
IN THE late 1990s a previously blameless American began collecting child pornography and propositioning children. On the day before he was due to be sentenced to prison for his crimes, he had his brain scanned. He had a tumour. When it had been removed, his paedophilic tendencies went away. When it started growing back, they returned. When the re-growth was removed, they vanished again. Who then was the child abuser? 
His case dramatically illustrates the challenge that modern neuroscience is beginning to pose to the idea of free will.

Finkelhor, David  & Sharon Araji, Explanations of Pedophilia: A Four Factor Model; The Journal of Sex Research Vol. 22, No.2, pp. 145-161 May, 1986 
We review a variety of theories that have been proposed to explain why adults become sexually interested in and involved with children. All the theories appear to be directed to explaining one of four factors: [...] 
We illustrate how these four factors can be combined to explain more of the diversity in pedophilic behavior than is usually explained by single factor theories. We also introduce the idea of viewing types of pedophilia on a continuum rather than in the traditional way of treating them as dichotomies. 

Finkelhor, Davind & Jones, Lisa M., Child Sexual Abuse Has Declined - Quotes and highlights from: Child Sexual Abuse Has Declined, David Finkelhor and Lisa M. Jones; in: Child Sexual Abuse. Ed. Angela Lewis. At Issue Series. San Diego; Greenhaven Press, 2005. 
Between 1992 and 2000, the number of substantiated cases of child sexual abuse declined by 40 percent. The decline may be partially due to decreased reporting and changes in the procedures used by child protective services (CPS) agencies. However, there is strong
evidence that a real decline in child sexual abuse occurred. 

Global, The, Woman Who Had Baby With 14-Year-Old Boy Gets Probation; Oct 11, 2006 
Dawn Fisher, the 33-year-old Swanton woman who gave birth to a 14-year-old boy's baby, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in community control -- with no jail time. Even Judge James Bates admitted there's a double standard when men and women commit the same crime. 

Google top 5 'sex offender recidivism'; 2007-February-9 on a Forum 
Here are the top 5 Google results for sex offender recidivism rate. Some claim that sex offenders have a lower than average recidivism rate. Others show multiple studies, the majority of which make the same claim. In other words, anyone doing a simple Google search should find the tabloid TV claims of high recidivism rates bogus.

Griesemer, Michael: 
Gieseking, Dieter, Interview mit Michael Griesemer, Autor des Buches Das Protokoll; Halbgebildeten Fanatikern im Missbrauchsgeschäft irgendwann das Handwerk lege'; In: Campo.
in einem Gegensatzpaar "Störung" oder Identität" denke ich entwicklungspsychologisch schon lange nicht mehr. Das ist altpsychiatrische Ideologie, nicht Wissenschaft. 

Hopkins, Kyle, Sexual crime studies shows repeats are low; Supporters of tough new laws say convicts just get smarter; Anchorage Daily News February 13, 2007 
A study of nearly 2,000 Alaska ex-cons challenges the widely held conviction that sex criminals are more likely to strike again than other lawbreakers when they get out of prison. 
The study, by the Alaska Judicial Council, found that sex offenders are among the criminals least likely to get in trouble once they've done their time and been released. 
The study says only 3 percent of sex offenders were convicted of another sex crime within three years of release from jail. 

Hutchinson, T.E., Fear of Pedophiles is Irrational; Consensual Touching of Children Should Be Legalized; 5/11/2006, The Hawaii Reporter. 
Pedophilia-phobia, an irrational fear of pedophiles, is sweeping the nation. It is based primarily on the false notion that anyone with an attraction to minors cannot control themselves. The existence of draconian laws plays into this falsehood because only those who are accused of committing crimes come to the attention of the public, or for that matter, nearly anyone's attention. It is characterized by stereotyping (assuming that an individual has traits and behaviors generally associated, rightly or wrongly, with a group) and demonizing. 

Krumme 13 Redaktionsteam, Gerichtsverhandlung vor dem Amtsgericht Hamburg-Altona am 3. August 2006 wegen des Buches von Dr. Edward Brongersma "Loving Boys".
Das LKA Hamburg eröffnete ein Ermittlungsverfahren (Az:LKA42/5K/0747897/2003) wegen "Verbreitung pornografischer Schriften" gem. § 184 STGB.  
Die Veröffentlichung der Buchbeschreibung entsprechend Bl. 11 dürfte als "Anpreisen" im Sinne des § 15 I Nr. 6 JSchG anzusehen sein. 
Das Urteil: "480 Euro Strafe, ersatzweise 60 Tage Haft."

Levine, Judith: 
What's harmful? Harmful to Minors is a controversial book that examines our cultural 
attitudes towards childhood sexuality; April 23, 2002, Judith Levine radio interview transcript. 

[Levine:] "The fact is that teenagers have sexual lives, and that a fair number of them, probably millions every day, are actually involved in what would legally be called statutory rape situations. Most kids, you know, if that were so harmful, we would see a lot more sexual misery among teenagers. So, my tendency would be to look at this from a child welfare standard rather than a kind of criminal standard." [...]
[Interesting are the frequent interruptions of Mr Rober Kight, from a conservative organization. Knight:]
"I think it's morally evil to encourage children to masturbate, because it gives them a false sense of what sexuality is about. " [...]
{Levine:] "I think one of the main points of my book is, let's listen to young people about their real lives. [...] We need to listen to kids and not just tell them what they think and what they feel [...].  

Nair, Preetu, Media reports on paedophilia in Goa; on a blog, 9 Feb, 2007 
I am a journalist working in Goa and would like to bring to your attention two stories which appeared recently one the BBC report which goes like this: "Goa - new paedophile's paradise?" and another story which appeared in Times of India , Mumbai edition issue dated 30 November 2006: "Paedophilic activities in Goa" 
First, I would like to bring to your kind attention the sensational statements made by BBC. 

Nathan, Debbie: 
Bright, Susie, Sex Panic! An Interview With Debbie Nathan; July 6th, 2007 
We experienced some hesitation at publishing this piece. We know that people have strong emotions about these topics and, obviously, the sexual abuse of children is no trivial matter. 
But given the players, including the New York Times, the Justice Department, the Internet, and Free Speech itself, we feel confident that it will start an important debate on a number of issues that are usually dominated by hysterical, reactionary voices.

Nathan, Debby & Zirpolo, Kyne: 
Zirpolo, Kyle, McMartin Pre-Schooler: 'I Lied' - A long-delayed apology from one of the accusers in the notorious McMartin Pre-School molestation case - Kyle Zirpolo, as told to Debbie Nathan - LA Times, 30 Oktober 2005 

I remember thinking to myself, "I'm not going to get out of here unless I tell them what they want to hear." 
Anytime I would give them an answer that they didn't like, they would ask again and encourage me to give them the answer they were looking for. It was really obvious what they wanted. 
Maybe some got scared that the teachers would get their families because they were lying. But I never forgot I was lying. 
I never mixed up reality and fantasy and always knew I was lying. 
I remember finally telling her [mother], "Nothing happened! Nothing ever happened to me at that school." - She didn't believe me. 

Prescott, James W., How Culture Shapes the Developing Brain and the Future of Humanity  
[ * The article and an Appendix giving more information: 

We now know that integrated pleasure is the ‘glue' of bonding and is necessary for the development of the moral person and of moral behaviours. If natural body pleasure is denied, depression and the artificial and destructive narcissistic and sado-masochistic pleasures of drugs and sexual violence often follow. 
Infants and children are for hugging and should never be physically hit for any reason or humiliated. Infants and children are honoured and should never be humiliated nor emotionally abused for any reason. The emerging sexuality of every child is respected. 

Ranganathan, Uma, Child Abuse In The Land Of Child Worshippers; desicritics.org; April 13, 2007 
How many of us grew up being able to talk frankly about how we felt about a whole lot of things, ranging from sex, to feelings of sadness or jealousy, just to name a few topics? Little by little our inner freedom begins to be curtailed, and the room in which we are allowed to move around mentally and emotionally, begins to get narrower by the day. We are often not even aware of the ways in which we are restricted. 
What does this have to do with child abuse? The same thing I guess, that it has to do with any kind of deviant behavior. After all what is deviant behavior if not the result of extreme ignorance, frustration and the result of neglect or repression? 

Rayburn Yung, Corey, Utah Supreme Court Issues Interesting Decision About Underage Sex;  in Courts, Utah, July 17, 2007 
Court rejects as 'absurd' the sex crime (sexual contact with a child under 14) prosecution -- even in juvenile court -- of a 12- and a 13-year-old who had consensual sex with each other. 

Rivedal, Karen, Sex crimes that shock most are rare; Madison.com, 608-252-6106, March 4, 2007 
Federal statistics show such crimes, especially involving children, are very rare. Less than 1 percent of all sex crimes involve murder, and the vast majority of sexually abused children - 60 percent to 80 percent - are molested by family members or close friends and acquaintances. Nearly 90 percent of adult victims know their assailants, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Sample, Ian, The brain scan that can read people's intentions; Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation; The Guardian, February 9, 2007 
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. 
The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.

Sandfort, Theodorus G. M., Sex in Pedophiliac Relationships: An Empirical Investigation Among a Non-representative Group of Boys; The Journal of Sex Research Vol. 20, No.2, pp. 123-142 May, 1984 
Although the boys were able to point to some negative aspects of their sexual contacts, most of them reported experiencing these contacts as predominantly positive. The sexual contacts were found to have had no negative influence upon the boys' sense of general well-being, nor did the boys perceive in these contacts a misuse of authority by the adult. 

Stinson, Michael A., Child Sex Abuse: How Did We Get Here? Philadephia got a wake-up call this week; Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 2006 
Our survey found that almost one in four adult Philadelphians (23.7 percent) reported being sexually abused as a child. Using 2000 census figures, that's more than 270,000 adults. And, over the last three years, one in seven adults said, they were concerned that a child they knew was being sexually abused. In that same period, one in 16 adults said, they were concerned that someone they knew exhibited sexual behavior directed at a child. That's more than 26,000 possible child victims and more than 71,000 possible adult perpetrators right here in Philadelphia.

Quotes from & reference to:
Tremblay, Pierre, Social interactions among paedophiles; 2001; School of Criminology, University pf Montreal 
My substantive goal, here, is to analyze the variety of conditions that allow paedophiles to overcome their social isolation, seek each other out and become, as a result, embedded in a deviant quasi-community or social movement.

Waber DP et al. - See at "Grohol", here above under the G. 

Quotes & highlights from: 
Wetzstein, Cheryl, The Complex Nature of Child Sexual Abuse; in: Child Abuse. Ed. Bryan J. Grapes. Contemporary Issues Companion Series. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001. 

The article give some recidivism rates, and statistics like this one:  

In memoriam: Dr Frits Bernard

Bernard, Frits, Interview with Dr. Frits Bernard, a pioneer emancipator; Over a half-century of struggle for boy love; by Marthijn Uittenbogaard, in KOINOS # 48, 2005-4 
Dr. Frits Bernard has been personally acquainted with many distinguished experts from the world of sexual science and the sexual emancipation movements. Together with the late Edward Brongersma, he laid the foundations of the emancipation movement of boy lovers in the Netherlands – and far beyond. A conversation with a fighter and a pioneer.