September 2009
Ipce Newsletter # E 27
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Report of the Meeting 2009 & articles
Ipce Magazine # 3
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Theme: Perverted Justice
Links
 | Citizens for Change - Fighting to change the sex offender
laws - < http://www.cfcamerica.org/
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 | Reform Sex Offender Laws
< http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/index.php
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"We believe many aspects of the current approach to sex offenders
seriously undermine justice and make our society less compatible with
the welfare of young people. We support carefully limited laws that
target harmful acts, not whole classes of people, and which
rehabilitate rather than vindictively punish and shame offenders. We
assert that only by supporting justice for all people can we maintain
a safe society." |
 | Sex Offender Support & Education Network
< http://www.sosen.us/
>
The mission of SOSEN is to educate the public, the media, and law-makers
regarding the facts of sexual abuse based on current research. We seek
to provide support for victims, former offenders, and their families
thereby reducing the risk of re-offense and allowing for "No More Victims".
SOSEN upholds fair and just laws that are evidence based,
effective and protect the Constitutional rights of all citizens. |
 | NAMBLA - Sciences
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Articles
About priests, vicars, rabbis ...
Associated Press, Priest In Boston Clergy Scandal Denied New Trial;
November 27, 2008
One of the central figures in Boston's clergy sex abuse scandal [Paul Shanley]
lost his bid for a new trial yesterday when a judge ruled a victim's repressed memories were rightly used against the
defrocked priest.
Bradley Hagerty, Barbara; Abuse Victims Seek Court Date With Vatican;
NPR 22 December 2008
Until recently, no federal court has allowed a case to proceed against the
Vatican — and few really believed the Holy See would ever be open to
lawyers or its treasury subject to money damages. It is considered a
foreign state with sovereign immunity.
But there are exceptions to the immunity, including one called the "tortious
act" exception. If Turner can show that U.S. bishops are officials of
the Vatican, and that they harmed children by failing to report sex abuse,
then he has a chance of getting to trial.
Gersten, Lana; Haredim Begin Confronting Pedophilia;
The Jewish Daily, October 10, 2008
After years in which the issue of pedophilia has been quietly dealt with among ultra-Orthodox Jews, a number of leaders in the community are speaking out publicly on the topic, spurring anger and debate over this sensitive issue.
The Guardian & Permalink; "Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse"; The Guardian
17 August 2003 & in Religion | Permalink; 28 November 2008
The Vatican instructed [in 2003] Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
Hemmingway, Sam; Paquette's therapist a child molester, lawsuit says;
The Burlington Free Press, August 31, 2008
A church therapist hired by the state's Roman Catholic diocese to treat the Rev. Edward Paquette for
fondling boys in Burlington in the 1970s was himself a child molester, according to court papers on file in
Massachusetts.
Lewis, Paul; Three British evangelicals cast blame on each other in trials over child abuse at Albanian orphanage; The Guardian, 27 October 2008
Three evangelical Britons, including the director of the orphanage, David Brown, have been accused of abusing children in their care.
McKee, Tom, Archdiocese Enacts New "Touching" Guidelines;
KYPost, 11 August 2008
Tough new guidelines on "good" touching and "bad" touching are now in place for anyone who has contact with children within the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
For example, "side hugs" are allowed but "bear hugs" are considered prohibited physical contact.
Michels, Scott; Orthodox Jewish Community Struggles With Abuse Allegations;
Alleged Victims and Advocates Say Sex Abuse Common, Rarely Discussed; ABC News,
May 5, 2009
When Joel Engelman was 8 years old, he says, he was called from his Hebrew class to the principal's office at his Brooklyn yeshiva, a Jewish
religious school. [... ...]
When Engelman arrived at the principal's office, he says, Reichman told him to close the door. He told the boy to sit on his lap and began
swiveling his chair back and forth, Engelman says. Reichman then touched him, moving from his shoulders down, Engelman claims.
The same kind of abuse went on twice a week for several months before he left the school, Engelman claims in a civil lawsuit filed against the
yeshiva, the United Talmudical Academy.
Yapp, Carl, Vicar was 'connoisseur' of porn;
BBC News 25 September 2008
The detective who led the investigation into convicted vicar Richard Hart has spoken about his double life as a respected village priest and
a so-called "connoisseur" of child pornography.
About the risk-avoiding society
Beckford, Martin; Baroness Neuberger: Children will grow up not trusting anyone in Britain's risk-averse society.
Children are growing up not trusting anyone, an influential peer has warned, as Britain's society becomes increasingly suspicious and risk-averse.
The Telegraph, UK, 23 Sep 2008
Boykin, Sharahn D.- Don't 'be alone with other people's children'
- Sex abuse allegations raise discussion - delmarvanow.com, December 7, 2008
"Don't get caught up in the feeling that someone needs you or someone loves you."
Filler, Daniel M. - Terrorism, Panic and Pedophilia;
Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 10, No. 3 - Abstract
A new rhetoric has surfaced [...] linking terrorism, Islam and pedophilia. By connecting these concepts, moral entrepreneurs lay the groundwork for a very different response to new terrorism.
[...]
By framing Muslims as the equivalent of pedophiles, advocates may attempt to argue for such policies as the moral equivalent of sexual offender civil commitment.
This article suggests that civil rights advocates develop counter-narratives to address any such developments.
Franz, Paul, Under Siege;
Sunday News & Lancasteronline.com, Aug 03, 2008
Tom Armstrong believes sex offenders have become the 'lepers of our society.' He believes men like the three he invited into his Mareitta
home can change. His words can't convince those protesting in front of his house.
About
Furedi, Frank, Licensed to hug:
Gubb, James; Licensed to hug; Permalink, June 26, 2008
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, according to a new study released today by Civitas.
In Licensed to Hug Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, argues that children need to have contact with a range of adult members of the community for their education and socialisation, but 'this form of collaboration, which has traditionally underpinned intergenerational relationships, is now threatened by a regime that insists that
adult-child encounters must be mediated through a security check'.
McKeen, S, Just hating pedophiles won't keep children safe
- Torches and pitchforks will not drive the monsters from our realm; The Edmonton
Journal (Canada), October 10, 2008
Neither prosecution nor protest will protect our children from pedophiles. Our common sense and humanity might. But on this issue, both are in short supply.
[...]
Why not create a support and accountability network like Alcoholics Anonymous for pedophiles?
Good idea. So good, in fact, that it's been around for years. A mostly unheralded and underfunded program known as COSA, or
Circles Of Support and Accountability [...]
Mad (thus treatment) or bad - & recidivism
Ray, Eric, Prof to Sentencing Commission: Sex Offenders Can Be Treated;
KCPW News, Aug 07, 2008
"When we looked at people going through the system for an extended period of time, the overall recidivism rate for offenders that came back
to the system for new sex offenses was approximately 10%,"
Sarler, Carol, Paedophiles may be mad or bad. But not both.
If Gary Glitter is a criminal, and not mentally ill, then he has paid the price and we should not punish him again;
The Times August 21, 2008
"The solution, therefore, is
 | either to declare all those on the sex offenders register to be unwell and apply open-ended treatment, compassionately, according to the severity of their condition - |
 | or to declare them criminals, take our several pounds of flesh and let them go. |
Mad or bad. But we can't, in conscience, have it both ways."
About false accusations and testimonies
Smith, Jordan
 | The Satanic Abuse Scare; The
Austin Chronicle, March 27, 2009
The sensational charges against Fran and Danny Keller and their home
day care were not unique. By 1992, the year the Kellers were tried,
about 100 child-care workers across the country had been charged with
ritual sex abuse of children, and 20 day care workers had been
convicted in similar cases.
The most notorious concerned the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, Calif. There, more than 300 children would eventually
make statements accusing their teachers not only of sexually violating
them but also of subjecting them to bizarre, ritualistic abuse.
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 | Believing the Children; The
Austin Chronicle, March 27, 2009
It's likely Fran and Danny Keller were innocent of charges of child
sexual abuse, but they're still in prison after 17 years. When the
little girl on the witness stand said, "No, it didn't
happen," Frances Keller put her head in her hands and began to
sob. [...]
[...] there is a growing body of psychological research reflecting
that, essentially, the opposite is true – that children can easily
be led to make up stories and even come to believe those stories –
often with the help of inexperienced or credulous interviewers.
Moreover, experts on the forensic interviewing of children say that
the recorded Keller case interviews are prime examples of poor
technique and manufactured testimony – effectively useless as
evidence.
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 | Children and Testimony; The
Austin Chronicle, March 27, 2009
There is a growing body of psychological research reflecting that
children can easily be led to make up stories, often with the help of
inexperienced or credulous interviewers. |
Piper, August; Lillevik, Linda; Kritzer, Roxanne - What's wrong with believing in
repression? A review for legal professionals; Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Vol
14 (3), Aug 2008, 223-242. - Abstract
"Repressed- and recovered-memory theory is not supported by science."
May 2009
Vogel,
Wolf, Heimliche Liebe - Eros zwischen Knabe und Mann; Jahn & Ernst
Verlag. [A Word document]
April 2009
Ipce hosts the next data base
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Rivas,
T., Positive
memories
Cases of positive memories of erotic relationships
and contacts of children with adults, as seen from the perspective of the
former minor - a data base - 2009
A collection of 75 positive memories of intergenerational
relationships and contacts of children with adults. |
Links
Articles
ABC Net (Australia) / Reuters. Afghan warlords keeping boys as sex
slaves: UN; July 7, 2008
Afghanistan must do more to end an age-old practice of young boys
being
kept as sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, the UN special
representative for children and armed conflict said.
Brad, Dicken, Accusers
- He didn't do it; The Chronicle, July 19, 2007
Joel Covender was convicted of molesting his stepchildren and spent 11 years in
prison. But the two accusers now say it was all made up. Now they say he never
touched them [...] [...] she does remember "that I felt pressure from
grown-ups involved to say what they wanted me to say."
Brislow, Jennie, The making of a modern-day witch hunt;
spiked-online.com, 30 January 2009
The publication of the paperback version of Richard Webster's [book:] The Secret
of Bryn Estyn is a powerful reminder of who is driving today's hysterical
anti-paedophile witch hunts: police, judges, politicians -- the elite, not the
mob.
Parts from
Califia-Rice, Patrick, Boy-lovers, Crush Videos, and That Heinous First Amendment;
The Loyal Opposition Archive, 2008
An essay about NAMBLA and
crush videos in the light of the First Amendment: Freedom of
Speech.
Daily Mail, Woman who falsely accused her father of rape reveals 'doctors hijacked
my mind'; 26th October 2007
Eleven years ago, Katrina, now 37, accused the father [ ... ...]
It would be several tortured months before it finally emerged that these
unfolding memories were pure fantasy - the drug-induced ramblings of a
woman pushed to the brink of sanity by a controversial form of
psychotherapy known as recovered memory syndrome.
Davidson, James, Mad about the boy;
Davidson, James, The Guardian, November 10, 2007
Plato wrote that same-sex lovers were more blessed than ordinary mortals. But
then he changed his mind, describing the act as 'utterly unholy' and 'the
ugliest of ugly things'. So why were the ancient Greeks so confused about
homosexuality, asks James Davidson.
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About: ·The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. |
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Comment 1 by Ipce member A
"I find it reprehensible that this reviewer is allowed to
overlay this modern errant "abuse" concept on this
classical phenomenon [...]" |
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Comment 2 by Ipce member B
"My own anthropological take on this is that the
'slave-chaperones', otherwise known as pedagogues, were not there to
protect boys but to keep order." |
Drehle, David Von, The Myth About Boys;
The Time, July 26, 2007
Worrying about our boys -- reading and writing books about them,
wringing our hands over dire trends and especially taking more time to
parent them -- is paying off. The next step is to let them really
blossom, and for that we have to trust them, give them room. The time
for fearing our sons, or fearing for their futures, is behind us. The
challenge now is to believe in them.
Eberstadt, Mary, Pedophilia Chic
- If you thought sex with children was taboo -- think again. The Weekly
Standard I-39, 17 June 1996
a number of enlightened voices have been raised in defense of giving
pedophilia itself a second look. After all -- or so some of these voices
have suggested --
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what if pedophilia is in fact a victimless crime? |
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What if teenagers, and even children, are more in control of their
emotions, their bodies, their sexuality, than the rest of us
think? |
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What if sexual relations with adults are actually
"empowering" to the young? |
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What if pedophiles and would-be pedophiles are in fact victims
themselves -- exploited by the cunning young people they befriend? |
French, Rose, Protestant churches report 260-plus child sex abuse cases a
year; Associated Press, USA, June 14, 2007
The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in
America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of
young people under 18 being sexually abused by clergy, church staff,
volunteers or congregation members.
Gregory, Lauren, Sex offender recidivism less than other felons';
Times Free Press, September 02, 2007
Those convicted of sex crimes in Tennessee are significantly less likely
to re-offend than other types of felons, according to a recent study
that experts say confirms what they have known for more than a decade.
Gieles, Frans, ‘Research
has shown…’
- On ideology and science; KOINOS Magazine
# 60, 2008 # 4.
That which we ‘know’ about (sexual) relations between young persons and
older persons mainly consists of interpretations of studies carried out among
‘abuse victims’. Those who get different finding – simply by asking
questions and listening to people – are seen as having been taken in by the
‘cognitive mistakes’ paedophiles make. All this does not amount to critiques
of scientific method, but to ideology.
Over the years, a number of interesting studies have been carried out in
Germany. They tell us something about a little known reality behind the common
conceptions about intergenerational relationships.
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Gieles, Frans, ‘Untersuchungen
haben gezeigt...’ - Über Ideologie und Wissenschaft; KOINOS
Magazine # 60, 2008 # 4.
Was wir über (sexuelle) Beziehungen zwischen Jugendlichen und
Erwachsenen ‘wissen’, sind größtenteils Interpretationen auf
der Grundlage von Untersuchungen von ‘Missbrauchsopfern’. Wer
etwas anderes herausfindet, indem er einfach die Menschen fragt und
ihnen zuhört, lässt sich angeblich von den ‘Denkfehlern’ der
Pädophilen gängeln. Das ist aber keine Wissenschaftskritik,
sondern Ideologie.
In Deutschland wurden im Laufe der Jahre einige interessante
Untersuchungen durchgeführt, die über eine kaum bekannte Realität
hinter den gängigen Vorstellungen von intergenerationellen
Beziehungen Aufschluss geben. |
Hartley, Eric, Molesters getting a slap on the wrist?
Lack of jail time in cases sparks sentencing debate; The Capital,
Annapolis, Md., April 22, 2007
The two recent county cases, among others, have sparked public debate
about how the courts handle child sex abusers.
On one side are those who say courts are too lenient and need to impose
long prison sentences to protect the public.
On the other side, some judges and experts say a psychiatric problem
can't be cured by incarceration and the best way to protect children in
the long run is to give offenders mental health treatment.
Hewitt, Sue; Vigilantes attack 'God-fearing' man;
Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), November 05, 2006
SUBURBAN vigilantes have
attacked a man they wrongly believed to be a pedophile and warned
Broadmeadows residents of his presence by letter. The man has been
threatened, had his windows smashed, gates padlocked and letterbox
sabotaged in a campaign of harassment spanning two months.
Innes, Stephanie, Clergy abuse victims in Tucson to get $7.5M;
Arizona Daily Star, July 17, 2007
Five former altar boys from Tucson will each receive $1.5 million as
part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' $660 million clergy abuse
settlement.
Irvine, Martha & Tanner, Robert; Sexual misconduct plagues US
schools; AP counts 2,500 teachers punished in 5 years; AP
October 20, 2007
An Associated Press investigation found more than 2,500 cases over five
years in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to
sadistic. [...]
Abuse also is treated with misplaced fascination in American
culture.
Judd, Dorothy, 'Did they think I had kidnapped him?';
The Guardian, July 21, 2008
Dorothy Judd was reported to the police for simply playing in the
woods
with her five-year-old grandson. Now she is afraid to be alone in
public
with him.
Kilgannon, Corey, Hypnosis Rigged Sex Case Against Him, Man Says;
[Capturing the Friedmans]; New York Times, October 20, 2007
"You have a group of kids who initially said they were not abused,
wrangled by a group of therapists who utilized highly suggestive methods
like hypnosis until the kids emerged from the sessions with the most
lurid and highly unbelievable examples of sexual abuse and going
directly to the grand jury," he said. "There is no more
inherently unreliable form of testimony than that."
Leggate, Stuart & MacDonald, Stuart, Flawed assessment 'raising sex-attack risk';
Timesonline (UK), July 6, 2008
The system used by Scottish police, social workers and prisons to decide
whether offenders will strike again is unreliable, researchers
claim.
McDonald, Roland, Pedophilia;
The Pedophilia/Pedophile Education Web Site Mirror - Mirror of a censored Web
Site - no date known.
What is pedophilia? - Who are pedophiles? - What do pedophiles believe? - How do
pedophiles behave? - Censorship - The bottom line.
Muhaddith.org, Islam
answers - Early marriage
Several
attacks have been raised recently against early marriage in Islam, which clearly
result from ignoring facts about pre-modern society and Islam, or intentionally
concealing them.
"In conclusion, Islam responsibly channels sexual instincts through
marriage, with the prior condition of psychological maturity. And contrary to
claims of improved morality, non-Islamic laws have alarmingly driven child
sexual abuse and psychological harm to epidemic proportions.
Therefore, when such attacks against Islam are analyzed impartially, they reveal
the perfect applicability of Islam’s solution from the 7th
century until today, and the utter failure of any other system to provide any
protection whatsoever to society’s youth. At best, these attacks are also
found to be irresponsibly superficial due to the seriousness of this issue."
Muller,
Heather , Child molester unlikely to re-offend, expert says;
eurekareporter.com, 16 October 2007
Park argued that the program itself was fundamentally flawed, focusing too much
on details of past offenses in an attempt to prevent relapses. Preventing
relapses should be the goal of sex-offender treatment plans, Park agreed, but
said the SOCP approach had been criticized for instilling a sense of shame in
participants.
"Shame," he said, "is looking at yourself as scum." It's a
negative emotion that, in Park's opinion, actually increases the risk of
re-offense.
New Scientist, Sex offenders unlikely to commit second
crime; 06 July 2008,
Magazine issue 2663
Sex crime statistics tend to make depressing reading, but now there is
some good news from the most populous state in the US.
Just 3.2 per cent of more than 4000 sex
offenders released on parole in 2002 were re-imprisoned for another sex
offence in the subsequent 5 years, according to new figures from
California.
About
O'Halloran, Elaine: Paedophiles Support Each Other Via Online Communities;
Medical News Today, 27 Jun 2008
Paedophiles use online virtual communities to support each other, justify their
sexual behaviour and foster an "us and them" mentality. This is one of
the findings of Ms Elaine O'Halloran from University College Cork ...
Pain, Andrew, Twenty years on from the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse
Scandal; Evening Gazette, July
8, 2008
TWENTY years ago the
Butler-Sloss report on the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse Crisis was
published. Here the Evening Gazette takes a look back at the crisis
which rocked Teesside, speaks to some of those caught up in the crisis,
and looks at the results of the Butler-Sloss inquiry.
Rainer, Ask Cat!
Rainer interviews a woman who has had an intimate relationship with her lesbian
mother; Once Against — now supporting by “C”. in HFP Mailbag,
April 2005.
Singer, Peter, Virtual vices;
Daily Times (UK), July 20, 2007
The burst of publicity about virtual paedophilia in Second Life may have focused
on the wrong target. Video games are properly subject to legal controls, not
when they enable people to do things that, if real, would be crimes, but when
there is evidence on the basis of which we can reasonably conclude that they are
likely to increase serious crime in the real world. At present, the evidence for
that is stronger for games involving violence than it is for virtual realities
that permit
paedophilia.
Southcoast Today, Churches
grapple with allowing sex offenders to join spiritual community;
May 25, 2008
Religious communities minister to people's spiritual needs, offering a place for healing -- but what happens when the person seeking restoration is a convicted sex offender?
Thorstad, David, Man-Boy Love Then and
Now: A Personal-Political Appraisal.
[This article first appeared in NAMBLA Journal 7 (1986). It was written in 1984
and appears here with a few changes.]
SIX YEARS AFTER THE FORMATION OF NAMBLA,
many in the media [...] till express surprise that man-boy lovers have organized
to raise public consciousness about their relationships. To some, this proves
the inherently degenerate nature of gay liberation. To others [...] the
existence of the man-boy love movement threatens their desired image of
respectability. They wish it would go away. Both groups seem unaware of the fact
that the boy-love movement is not new; it played an important role in the early
gay movement in Germany from the late nineteenth century until the extermination
of the movement with the triumph of Nazism.
Thorstad, David, Homosexuality and the American
Left - The Impact of Stonewall.
[The following article appeared simultaneously in Journal of Homosexuality, vol.
29, no. 4 (1995) and Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left, ed.
Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis, and James Steakley (Binghamton, N.Y.: Harrington
Park Press, 1995), 319–49.]
Most left-wing groups have had trouble dealing with the taboo against
intergenerational love, although a few have taken a libertarian stand on the
issue.
Withers, Edwin, Victim of false paedophile slurs tells of his torment;
peterleemail.co.uk, 2nd August 2008
A FORMER miner has told how he contemplated suicide after being hounded
by rumour-mongers who branded him a paedophile. Edwin Withers says he has suffered years of physical and mental abuse
after a whispering campaign against him started eight years ago. Since the false rumours began, his marriage has broken down and close
friends have stopped talking to him.
Wypijewski, JoAnn,
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Crisis of Faith; Carnal Knowledge; The Nation, March 16, 2009
[An article about Father Paul Shanley]
There was no evidence in the case, just a claim that
depended entirely on faith. Dr. Brown was in the courtroom to give it
the imprimatur of science.
"Decades of research and scientific debate have clarified over and over again that the notion of
traumatic events being somehow 'repressed' and later accurately recovered is one of the most pernicious bits of folklore ever to infect
psychology and psychiatry."
|
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The Passion Of Father Paul Shanley,
in: Legal Affairs - date not mentioned.
The criminal charges against Shanley, 73, are rooted in the "recovered
memories" of one man, Gregory Ford, whose claims, it now turns out, will
never be tested in court.
The accusations against Shanley rely on a psychological theory called
dissociated or repressed memory. |
Yung, Corey, When Does Ordinary Law Enforcement Become a "War on Crime?"
- concurringopinions.com, March 27, 2009
I contend that a criminal war on sex offenders may have already begun.
[...]
In reviewing America's history of criminal wars, I have identified three major characteristics of those
conflicts.
[...] there must be a substantial campaign of myth creation.
[...] The treatment of offenders seems out of proportion ...
November 2008
Links
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SOSEN - < http:// www.constitutionalfights.org/
>
In Ohio, SOSEN and other groups (jackiesparling@gmail.com) continue their multifaceted work of support for sex offenders and their families, and a new effort has sprung up as well.
The site contains many articles about the latest federal court decisions, and
more.
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 | Gay Boy Support < http://www.gayboysupport.nl/en/links.htm
>
Info and support for gay teenagers.
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 | Tiny Eden < http://tinyeden.org
>
A powerful story of adventure, love & courage of one boy to one boy to
one man, by Günter Konrad Heyes, 2008.
|
 | Operation Awareness < http://www.operationawareness.com/
>.
A site devoted specifically to child safety, criminal justice, and civil rights issues.
|
Articles
Cliss, Sarah, 'Hate
Campaign has made me prisoner of my own home'; Fenland Citizen (UK), 30 April 2008
A Wisbech man's life is being made a living hell thanks to an on-going hate campaign which has seen him branded a paedophile.
The 48-year-old factory worker, from Wilberforce Road, is facing losing his job as a result.
[...] But in fact Mr Pooley has never been in trouble with the police and has no
criminal convictions. And his only involvement with police has been over
the hate campaign.
Dolezal, Curtis & Carballo-Dieguez, Childhood
sexual experiences and the perception of abuse among Latino men who have sex
with men; Journal
of Sex Research, August,
2002 - [External links]
These data show that not all childhood sexual experiences with older partners
are perceived as negative or are associated with damaging repercussions. This
finding is, of course, not presented to condone these practices. In fact, the
majority of the men who had such experiences were either forced or threatened or
were physically or emotionally hurt (65% reported at least one of these). There
were also indications that these experiences are associated with negative
outcomes in adulthood, in particular with alcohol use and sexual behavior. [...]
However, our findings, consistent with the modest effect sizes for correlates of
CSA reported by Rind et al. (1997, 1998), reflect that the negative consequences
of early sexual experiences are not always pervasive or severe (at least
regarding the limited measures available in this study), especially if the
experiences were perceived as consensual.
Franklin, Ruth, Depravity's Rainbow; The New Republic Published: Wednesday, May 07, 2008
- About: Beautiful Children; Charles Bock; Random House, 417 pp., $25.
The majority of missing children are runaways.
Why do children disappear? This is one of the preoccupations of Bock's novel. Beautiful Children has been discussed as a novel about runaways. But it
is also, even more darkly and more importantly, a novel about pornography and prostitution, those twin pillars that together support
what is euphemistically known as the "adult entertainment industry."
Goldhill, Simon, Images of Ancient Greek
Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods; Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods;
Times Higher Education (UK), 12 June 2008 - About: Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods,
By Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella, Routledge, 2008.
"Boys will be boys" is a depressing prediction not only for feminists with an eye to the future, but also - retrospectively - for historians
of sexuality. [...] But fortunately for historians, Ancient Greek pederasty is always there
to throw a spanner in the machine of the ideologues who believe that human sexuality has a natural and ineluctably proper form.
Holmes, William C., Men's self-definitions of abusive childhood sexual
experiences, and potentially related risky behavioral and psychiatric outcomes;
William C. Holmes, Child Abuse & Neglect 32 (2008) 8 - Pages 83-97 - Full Text PDF (162 K)
Many men with abusive CSEs [Childhood Sexual Experiences] do not self-define these CSEs to
be CSA [Childhood Sexual Abuse] though not in a way that differs by sexual identity. The
process by which men self-define their abusive CSEs to be CSA or not appears to be
associated not only with self-explanations that differ by self-definition subgroup, but also with behavioral outcomes that impart
risk to Non-Definers.
Male Sexuality
Mentoring - A Positive Model for Intimate Boy - Older Male
Relationships - Sent to Ipce - author, source &
date unknown.
Other
than a mentor as noted below, neither a boy's parents or other adults,
his peers – who are most likely no better informed than himself, nor
any formal sex education program, will suffice to adequately and
satisfactorily address a boy's desire and need to learn about his
sexuality.
O'Neill, Brendan, The myth of trafficking;
Brendan O'Neill, The New Statesman, 27 March 2008
About: Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Laura María Agustín; Zed Books.
Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances
abroad. They are not "passive victims" in need of "saving" or sending back by western campaigners.
Pattaya Daily News, Contradictory
stances on under-age sex and sexual exploitation; December 16, 2006
There has been yet another incident reported of under age prostitution reported in
Pattaya, resulting in Western Human Rights Agencies such as
the International Justice Mission crying exploitation, yet this whole controversy contains certain ambiguities.
[...] If one considers the ethos of agencies such as the IJM, one can detect an element of hypocrisy underlying their professed aims.
[...] Presumably the IJM are not familiar with the psychological
phenomenon of projection!
Saletan, William, Sexual Antagonism,
A genetic theory of homosexuality; Slate, June 25, 2008
Gay couples can't have biological kids together. So if homosexuality is genetic, why hasn't it died out?
A study published last week in PLoS One tackles the question. It starts with four curious patterns.
[...] They conclude that only one theory fits the data. The theory is called "sexually antagonistic selection."
[...] I don't know to what extent this theory will end up explaining male homosexuality.
But its emergence threatens to change our thinking about gay men in several
important ways.
Stanley, Jessica L, Bartholomew, Kim & Oram, Doug, Gay
and bisexual men's age-discrepant childhood sexual experiences;
Journal of Sex
Research, Nov,
2004 [External links]
In conclusion, the standard convention of defining age-based childhood sexual
abuse as uniformly negative, harmful, and coercive may not accurately represent
gay and bisexual men's sexual experiences. Combining perception-based CSA
experience with noncoercive, nonnegative, nonabusive experiences, as the
age-based definition does, presents a misleading picture of childhood sexual
abuse. An age-based CSA definition inflates prevalence rates of childhood sexual
abuse and inaccurately suggests that the maladjustment associated with
perception-based CSA experiences applies to all childhood age-discrepant sexual
encounters. In contrast, these results suggest that gay men with histories of
nonnegative, noncoercive childhood sexual experiences with older people are as
well adjusted as those without histories of age-discrepant childhood sexual
experiences. However, both definitions of CSA account for only a very small
proportion of the variance in adult adjustment problems. Contrary to popular
belief, negative outcomes do not inevitably follow from gay and bisexual men's
childhood age-discrepant sexual encounters.
October 2008
Leahy, Terry, Negotiating Stigma: Approaches to Intergenerational
Sex, PhD thesis.
[Abstract*] - [Part
1 - Chapter 6 - Conclusions**]
PhD thesis presented to the University of New South Wales, 1991.
First published in January 2002 by Books
Reborn.
* Negotiating Stigma: Approaches to Intergenerational Sex deals with the
experience of younger parties involved in intergenerational sexual relationships
with adults. The study is based upon a set of interviews (nineteen in all) with
people who, while they were under sixteen, were voluntarily involved in such
relationships. They all described relationships that they regarded as positive
experiences. Frank and intriguing verbatim material from the interviews provides
the background and the basis for the analysis.
** Part 1 has been concerned with the strategies the
interviewees adopted to negotiate the dominant discourse on intergenerational
sex—the prohibition of intergenerational sex. This discourse creates the
subject position “victim of abuse” as the appropriate subject position for
the younger party in an intergenerational sexual contact. In negotiating this
prohibition, all the interviewees begin from the point at which they refuse
this subject position and instead define their own experiences positively.
At the same time, however, I have indicated that all the interviewees also
took up subject positions in reference to this dominant discourse.
July 19, 2008
July 14, 2008
Anderson, James D., How To Survive in Prison as an Innocent Man Convicted of a Sex Crime; ITP Forensics Journal, Volume 9, Numbers 3/4, Summer/Fall, 1997
[!]
This article includes some strong views that may be surprising and challenging. We have chosen to publish it because
we believe prisoners have a right to seek interaction with those outside
the prison walls.
We also believe there are many innocent men and women in prison who are wrongly convicted of sex offenses. They too, have a
right to stand up for their innocence.
Claydon, Russell, Paedophile had 'no-one to turn to';
eadt.co.uk, 22 April 2008
A paedophile who ran a global child abuse network from his parent's Suffolk farmhouse has claimed he had no-one to turn to with his problems.
Cohen, Lurie B., The Polygraph Paradox;
Lie detectors aren't perfect. But, convicted sex offenders concede, they
may be good enough; online.wsj.com, March 22, 2008
Polygraphy, the attempt to ferret out deception by monitoring changes in
subjects' breathing, sweating or pulse, has long been derided as "voodoo
science." Confessions made under polygraph aren't admitted as evidence in a vast majority of U.S. courts without the consent of the accused.
The National Academy of Sciences says the technology isn't accurate enough to be used for employee security screening.
Yet polygraph use is at the highest level in two decades.
Franklin, Karen, Sex offender industry sees invasion of "hebephile" hunters;
American Chronicle, December 12, 2007
Hirschfeld
would roll over in his grave to see how his term is being used today -
in the service of involuntarily committing people to state psychiatric
hospitals. [...] This is but one of several efforts by Doren
to broaden the diagnostic categories under which sex offenders
can be civilly detained. [...]
The absurdity of describing erotic attraction to adolescents as a
mental abnormality is that most normal heterosexual men are sexually
attracted to teenage girls [...] Given the scientifically unsupported nature of this emerging
diagnosis, clinicians are likely to apply it arbitrarily, and especially
to men who are sexually involved with male teenagers.
Furedi, Frank,
History-as-Therapy;
In an era when suffering is celebrated and
we all must ‘Believe the Victim’, is it any wonder people make up
wild stories about wolves and Nazis? Spiked
Online, 5 March 2008
[...] In the current cultural climate, it is inevitable that abuse memoirs
have a tendency to stretch the boundary between fact and fiction.
Readers and critics usually feel awkward and inhibited about questioning
the veracity of such memoirs. Scepticism is discouraged in an era built
upon the therapeutic ethos ‘Believe the child’, ‘Believe the
patient’, ‘Believe the abused’ – today, such invocations are
used to sacralise the claims of victims. [...]
Through the therapeutic manipulation of memory, the trauma is lived and relived,
guaranteeing the individual the status of a morally interesting victim-for-life.
Israely, Jeff (Rome) and Van Biema, David (New York), The Pope's Sex Abuse Challenge;
Time. April 11, 2008
Benedict's is the first papal trip to the United States since the priest sex abuse crisis erupted in 2001. It is a
controversy that has left much of the American laity bitterly disillusioned with their Church's leadership. For many of the 67 million
American Catholics, how the Pope confronts the lingering fallout from the pedophilia scandal may largely determine the success of this visit.
Jones, Peter, How gay were the Greeks?
Peter Jones reviews The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James
Davidson;
Telegraph (UK), December 27, 2007
Homosexuality was 'a complex public phenomenon, essential to understanding Greek
politics and philosophy, warfare, art and society', rather than a bit of after-hours frottaging somewhere out on Lycabettus Heath.
Kramer, Richard, Social workers learn from pedophiles;
2008-March-22
This past Thursday, B4U-Act held its one-day workshop entitled "Beyond
Fear and Mistrust: Toward Open Communication between Mental Health Professionals and Minor-Attracted People" in Westminster, Maryland.
[...]
Probably the most notable thing about the workshop was that minor-attracted people and mental health professionals were working
together as equals, without the minor-attracted people being required to
label themselves or their sexuality as sick or identify themselves as
potential offenders who need to be controlled.
Mulholland, Angela, Scientists
look for neurological clues to pedophilia; CTV.ca News, Oct. 29
2007
Cantor believes the roots of pedophilia lie in the wiring of the brain. To back his theory, he has
studied the neurological characteristics of hundreds of pedophiles and has helped make some interesting discoveries.
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Note: the sample is not a-selectively token from the general public, but
is quite specific and selective. From such a sample, it is not allowed to
draw general conclusions.
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Nichol, Sara, Pervert breaks order after just weeks;
Evening Chronicle, March 29, 2008
He was banned from hanging around children, but weeks after being released from prison he was back. [...]
"He also claimed 30 seconds was not long enough to be classed as loitering. But magistrate Professor Reavley Gair disagreed... ."
Radford, Benjamin, Predator
Panic - Reality Check on Sex Offenders skeptical; livescience.com, 16
May 2006
A close look at two widely-repeated claims about the threat posed by sex offenders reveals some surprising truths.
[...] One tragic result of these myths is that the panic over sex offenders
distracts the public from a far greater threat to children: parental abuse and
neglect. The vast majority of crimes against children are committed not by
released sex offenders, but instead by the victim's own family, church clergy,
and family friends.
Ratajczak, Jim, Widespread
ire over decision to arrest Folsom man; ACLU
says Emmer's loitering charge a dose of overkill; Folsom
Telegraph, April 1, 2008
The 49-year-old Emmer was arrested at his house
March 13 on suspicion of loitering where children gather after a woman's
citizen's arrest warrant alleged Emmer had spoken to
her two children at three different children's-themed events. [...]
One comment reads, "The notion that you can jail people just
for talking, even to children, seems very much in tension with the
First Amendment." Another asks, "Since when is it a crime to
speak to children?"
Reid, Christine, 'Sexually Violent Predator' tag debated;
Attorneys, offenders debate Colorado's use of 'sexually violent predator' designation;
Daily Camera, March 8, 2008
When the court finds a defendant to be a sexually violent predator, it is determined through the pre-sentence report the court gets at the time
of sentencing. A sexually violent predator risk assessment is supposed to be part of that report, and the judge makes the determination after
the prosecutor and defense attorney get a look at the report.
A person being considered for parole from prison also can be administered the sexually violent risk assessment tool and labeled by
the parole board before he or she is set free.
Rivas, Titus, I
have only good feelings about what happened; Early erotic experiences of
Howard Miller.
Because I had such a positive experience as a child I believe that I can say
with absolute certainty that sometimes such relationships can be very
positive.
Rouvalis, Cristina, Men in tough spot with kids;
Fear of sexual predators, who are usually male, raises suspicions; Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, January 12, 2008
In a society where pedophiles are outed and shamed as part of prime-time entertainment, it has come to this: Tony Taylor, a Pittsburgh father,
says he wouldn't come to the aid of a crying child lost in the mall.
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