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April 8, 2007

Reuters, Afghan boy dancers sexually abused by former warlords; November 18, 2007 
They are known as "bacha bereesh", boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan.

Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, The Dancing Boys of the North; IWPR, Ariana Afghanistan WorldWide Broadcasting, October 14, 2007 
Wealthy strongmen recruit adolescent boys for entertainment and sex, with the local authorities powerless to stop the practice. 
‘Some men enjoy playing with dogs, some with women. I enjoy playing with boys,’ said Allah Daad, a one-time mujahedin commander in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz. 

April 7, 2008

New links:

B4U-Act - Living in Trust and Dignity
A Maryland non-profit organization with funding from Baltimore Mental Health Systems. 
About giving help and receiving help - USA, Maryland. 
< http://www.b4uact.org / >

A link to the full translated text of Rudiger Lautmann's book - see below -: 
< < http://www.shfri.net/trans/lautmann/lautmann.htm  >. 

March 2008

Newsletter E 24 - March 2008 - [Zip Doc version]
Report of the Meeting October 2007 - Theme: Research - Articles 

Excellent Blog:
ANU - < http://anu.nfshost.com/ >
A blog about paedophilia, what paedophilia is and why many assumptions
about paedophilia are incorrect

Articles

"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)
When the statements of persons who have become known as sexual victims are taken seriously, and psycho-diagnostic studies of victim harm are examined carefully, one comes to the inevitable conclusion that only a portion may be characterized as 'victims'; frequently, they do not personally feel they have been harmed. 
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. 

Michael M. Griesemer - translated, quoted and summarized 
Ausmass und Auswirkungen massenmedialer Desinformation zum Stand der Wissenschaften über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch - am Beispiel einer tragischen klinischen Entwicklunsabweichung; Arbeitsgemeinschaft Humane Sexualität e.V., Gießen, 2004
If I want to distinguish two periods [...], I mark 1987 as the dividing line. 
[Summarized:] Since that year, the media weekly mentioned sexual abuse of children and pedophilia, before scarcely known by society and psychologists, presented as a monstrosity. 
The other period I distinguish starts in 1950 with Kinsey's report, goes via the permissive year 1968 to the early eighties with its welfare. And than, [after 1987], the period of the fall of the communists in the East [of Germany] until 2003. 
There are significant differences in the way of speaking in both periods, a difference that has had consequences for our work as psychologists [...]. Also psychologists felt a pressure to prosecute in our work, and had to adapt their way of speaking. 

Lautmann, Rudiger: 
Highlights from Lautmann; Quotes, translated from Die Lust am Kind, Portrait des Pädofielen, Rüdiger Lautmann, Ingrid Klein Verlag, Hamburg 1994 
My question is: How do pedophiles see children? The present-day literature keeps silence about this not discussable or forbidden theme.  
We have hold interviews with sixty men. Other  men have informed us in informal interviews or have sent us letters. [...] Our respondents were for two-third boylovers, for one-third girl-lovers, while some loved boys and girls. 
Our sample is not taken from a prison or clinic population, but is as broad as possible taken from the national German population. 

Jonelle Naudé, Reconstructing Paedophilia 
an analysis of current discourses and the construct of close relationships. 
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science at the University of Stellenbosch - Supervisor: Mr C. Petty - December 2005 
Analysis reveals how the dominant positivist approach to paedophilia research embeds and perpetuates moral and often prejudicial positions that in turn influence the validity of empirical findings and theory, and tend to marginalise contradictory evidence. 
[... I]t appears that the framework opens a discursive space in which the psychological dimensions of paedophilia may be problematised in ways that are less susceptible to implicit prejudice and bias, and therefore empirically more sound. The implications hereof for research, theory and psychotherapeutic intervention in the area of paedophilia are discussed briefly.

Vogt, Horst, Pedophilia 
The Leipziger Study of the Social and Psychical Situation of Pedophilic Men 
Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, 2006  
This is a translation of 
Pädophilie; Leipzicher Studie zur gesellschaftlichen und psychischen Situation pädophiler Männer -
ISBN-10: 3-89967-323-9; ISBN-13: 978-3-89967-323-4.
The translation will gradually be given here. 
Given the fact that most of those effected find them helpful, the question arises as to what extent pedophile self-help groups are worthy of social support (e.g. making space available, club memberships, etc.). In the media, pedophile self-help groups are sometimes categorically characterized as criminal rings. Based on the author's experience, there are some serious pedophile self-help groups which incorporate expert psychological care (e.g. in Frankfurt) that certainly do not constitute criminal organizations, and which are worthy of support.

Oktober 2007

Links added

The Pedophilia/Pedophile Education Web Site Mirror 
Mirror of a censored Web Site by Ronald McDonald. Used by permission as documentation for Martin Manis's Virtual Cabaret (a Czech computer magazine, in Czech language only).

Lots of literature can be found here:
< http://www.interleads.net/partners/society-sexuality20.html

And here: 
< http://www.arkadia.com/usa/web-directory/Society/Sexuality/Sexology/Papers_and_Studies/ > 

 

September 2007

Ipce Newsletter # E 23, September 2007 

As usually, there is a line or a thread in this Newsletter. We start with “Principles”, but now principles about “a war” and “an enemy” – not the usual language in Ipce circles, but the principles are about a “non-violent” warfare.  
A war? What follows are the ‘Hegelian’ principles and strategies of those who want to gain power and control, especially by manipulating people in the media.  
Control, manipulation, power? Yes: read the article about false convictions. Read also the articles that describe the fear for men, implanted in our youth, about the myths and the moral panic, and also about the manipulation with recidivism rates of sex offenders. These rates are quite low, but are always said to be very high: manipulation, lies, power.
Read [....] 
Ipce tries to give some counter balance – and has now and than to meet and to take discussions, thus has its annual internal papers, also to be found in this Newsletter.

August 2007

Links

Pedosexual Resources Directory 
< http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/index.html

PRD - Datensammlung zu sexuellen Beziehungen zwischen Erwachsenen und Kindern - < http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/German/index.html >

Legal Issues and Court Cases: affecting sex offenders 
< http://www.geocities.com/eadvocate/issues/ >
This site is loaded with accurate, official information regarding sex offenders, including their rights, recidivism, and a compilation of victims of vigilantism. 

Reform Sex Offender Laws 
< http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/ >

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. 

See also here below: 
Chauhan, Chetan,  Goverment to consider allowing consensual sex among children; Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 26, 2007 - and: 
Ranganathan, Uma, Child Abuse In The Land Of Child Worshippers; desicritics.org; April 13, 2007 

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: 

a. Les enfants ressentent les relations ou les contacts sexuels avec des adultes comme quelque chose de positif. 
b. Les enfants recherchent l'amour, l'affection et la sécurité en plus de l'aspect purement sexuel. 
c. Il est faux de parler d'influence traumatisante ou de crainte à l'égard de l'adulte. Selon les résultats de notre test ABV, les sujets testés ne sont pas plus névrosés que le Néerlandais moyen. Au contraire certains paraissent plus stables sur le plan psychologique. 
[....] 

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.: 

Sharpe, Robin, The teacher who liked to make love to boys; A Book Review; 2006 
Brody wrote THE PEOPLE'S LAND in the seventies before the current hysteria about man/boy sex had become pervasive. In his book he hardly mentions sex again as he explores how the Inuits and the Whites see themselves and each other. 
He uses the story about the teacher who liked to make love with boys as an illustration of the differences in perception and lack of communication between the arrogant Whites and the reticent Inuit. 

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 

Followed by: How and Why Kyle Came Forward; by Debbie Nathan 
including a condensed transcript of an interview interview with Kyle Sapp, now known as Kyle Zirpolo 

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: 

SomatoSensory Affectational Deprivation (SSAD) 
The Origins of Biological Love 
The Two Brains of Love 
Ten Principles of Mother-Infant Bonding to Change the World ]

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? 

Cfr: ABC.net, Australia, Indian study reveals widespread child abuse; April 9, 2007 

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.

FAQ: Mind Reading 

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.

BlueRibbon, In reply to Child Sex Abuse: How Did We Get Here?  
OK, so to begin with, the number '23.7%' relates to people who say they've had sexual contact as children. It does not mean they were abused, unless you think all sexual contact involving children and older people is abuse. So, already we know we are dealing with dishonest people who will twist their statistics to gain bigger headlines, and obtain more research grants from the government. 

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.

Sharpe, Robin, My Comments, 2003 
While Tremblay can find anecdotal statements to back up his contentions his supply side analysis is based on very dubious assumptions, highly selective observations, and questionable reasoning. Tremblay’s speculations are hardly constructive research in that he failed to define some testable hypotheses pertinent to his claims. Conclusions are contained in his assumptions.

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. 

This article, "The Child Molestation Dilemma," by Cheryl Wetzstein, appeared in the November 1996 issue and is reprinted with permission from The World & I. 

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

450,000 children, most of whom are teenagers, run away from home and stay away at least one night. 
354,000 children are abducted by a family member, typically a non-custodial parent. 
127,100 children are "thrown away," that is, abandoned or ejected from their homes. 
114,600 cases of attempted abduction by a non-family member are reported. 
3,200 to 4,600 children are reported abducted by non-family members. 

White, Bill, 'Deliver Us From Evil' is a heartbreaking look at broken trust;  Seatle PI, November 10, 2006 
"Deliver Us From Evil," a documentary on Father Oliver O'Grady, whose crimes as a sexual predator were covered up for nearly a decade by the Catholic Church, is such a level-headed, even-handed treatment of a controversial subject that it makes most other
documentaries look like temper tantrums. [...] 
The interviews with O'Grady are disturbingly candid. He sees his actions not as criminal, but as a mere compromising of priestly ideals. [...] Berg films the families of the victims in real space. They are not talking heads, but real people.

June-July 2007

Ipce Newsletter # E 22, June 2007 - Articles

Book on Books reborn

Brongersma, Dr Edward. Loving Boys; A multidisciplinairy study of sexual relations between adult and minor males; Global Academic Publishers, 1986.

Volume 1 [Long pdf fole: 20 MB]

Volume 2 [Long pdf file: 33 MB]

July 31, 2007

New Links

CritEst - the fight for truth, humanity and justice continues .  
< http://www.critest.com/

Moral Outrage
Dedicated to the Victims of Statutory Rape Laws 
< http://www.moraloutrage.net/ >

Boyhood Studies 
< http://www.boyhoodstudies.com/
This website provides a venue for the inclusive study of boyhood, young masculinities, and the social-cultural position of boys worldwide as well as historically. A new peer-reviewed journal by the name of Thymos will be published as of Spring 2007. 

Age of Consent 
< http://www.petertatchell.net/age%20of%20consent/age%20of%20consent%20index.htm  >

The Consequences 
< http://www.geocities.com/voicism/harm-master.html
The Consequences, of sex laws, sex crimes and accusations. Suicides, Deaths, Murders, and Revenge.

Blogs: 
< http://theboyloveblog.blogspot.com/ >

Mad, bad or sad, 
Knowing who we are, not what you think we are
< http://www.madbadorsad.org/ >
For almost three years, M ad, B ad or S ad? supported thousands of people, worldwide, in their journey through human sexuality issues. With numerous bone fide direct and similar links [...] provided the primary archive on contemporary medical, legal and general information, and active discussions, in this area. 

ANU - < http://anu.nfshost.com/?p=84 >
A blog about paedophilia, what paedophilia is and why many assumptions
about paedophilia are incorrect 

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.

Interview mit Dr. Frits Bernard, Emanzipator der ersten Stunde; Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert Kampf für die Liebe zu den Jungs; Marthijn Uittenbogaard, in: KOINOS # 48, 2005-4 
Dr. Frits Bernard hat viele namhafte Personen aus der Welt der Sexualwissenschaft und der sexuellen Emanzipationsbewegungen persönlich gekannt. Zusammen mit dem verstorbenen Edward Brongersma ist er der Gründer der Emanzipationsbewegung der Jungenliebhaber in den Niederlanden – und weit über deren Grenzen hinaus. Ein Gespräch mit einem Kämpfer der ersten Stunde. 

Bernard, Frits, ‘Things will be all right again. One day’; Theme: the future of boy love; Dr. Frits Bernard, in KOINOS # 51 (2006 #3) 
Man’s inclination to develop prejudices will continue to be a threat in fifty years, because this inclination has always existed. The reversal of fallacious conclusions is a complex and lengthy process. Still, I believe there will probably always be shorter or longer periods of flowering. After all, boy love as well is inherent in humanity. History proves this. 

Bernard, Frits, ‘Es wird schon wieder gut werden. Irgendwann einmal’; Thema: die Zukunft der Jungenliebe; in KOINOS # 51 (2006 #3) 
Die Neigung des Menschen, Vorurteile zu entwickeln, wird auch in fünfzig Jahren noch eine Bedrohung darstellen, denn diese Neigung ist nicht zeitbedingt. Das Rückgängigmachen einer falschen Meinungsbildung ist ein komplizierter und langwieriger Prozess. Trotzdem glaube ich, dass es wahrscheinlich immer wieder kürzere oder längere Blütezeiten geben wird. Denn auch die Liebe zu den Jungen ist dem menschlichen Dasein inhärent. Die Geschichte belegt dies.

Gieles, Dr Frans E J, In memoriam: Dr. Frits Bernard; in KOINOS # 51 (2006 # 3) 
A scholarly, active, wise and congenial man has suddenly departed from us, and following his own wish has been cremated in a quiet, private service involving only his family. We have to go on without him. 

Zum Gedenken an Dr. Frits Bernard; Dr. Frans E.J. Gieles, in KOINOS # 51 (2006 #3)
Ein gelehrter, tätiger, kluger und liebenswürdiger Mensch ist unerwartet von uns gegangen. Der Tote ist seinem Wunsch gemäß in aller Stille und im engsten Familienkreis eingeäschert worden. Uns wird er fehlen. 

Visser, Hans, In memoriam Frits Bernard; 28 August 1920 - 23 May 2006; in KOINOS # 51 (2006 #3) 
I knew Frits in the last phase of his life, and got to know him as an unusually wise man. At meetings and gatherings his input was always first-class. He was an erudite man, truly an enrichment. His passing is therefore a great loss.I knew Frits in the last phase of his life, and got to know him as an unusually wise man. At meetings and gatherings his input was always first-class. He was an erudite man, truly an enrichment. His passing is therefore a great loss. 

In memoriam Frits Bernard; 28. August 1920 – 23. Mai 2006; Hans Visser, in KOINOS # 51 (2006 #3) [Deutsch] 
Ich habe Frits in dem letzten Abschnitt seines Lebens erlebt und ihn als einen ungemein klugen Mann kennen gelernt. Bei Versammlungen und auf Tagungen hatte er immer einen sehr bedeutenden Anteil an der Diskussion. Er war ein hochgebildeter Mann, der wirklich eine Bereicherung war. Deshalb ist sein Tod ein großer Verlust.

Added to The RBT Files

Hatfield, Dr. Elaine & others, Letter to APA; 3 July 1999 
We, the president and past-presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, members of the SSSS Executive Committee, and editors of Journal of Sex Research and the Archives of Human Sexuality would like to urge the American Psychological Association to take a strong stand in support of Dr. Bruce Rind [... ... ...]

Najman, Jake; Dunne, Michael; Purdie, David; Boyle, Francis; Coxeter, Peter; Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Sexual Dysfunction in Adulthood: An Australian Population-Based Study; Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 34, Number 5, October 2005 , pp. 517-526(10) - Abstract
This study examined self-reported adult sexual functioning in individuals reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in a representative sample of the Australian population. 
More than one-third of women and approximately one-sixth of men reported a history of CSA.
For both sexes, there was a significant association between CSA and symptoms of sexual dysfunction. In assessing the specific nature of the relationship between sexual abuse and sexual dysfunction, statistically significant associations were, in general, evident for women only. 

Rind, Bruce & Tromovitch, Philip, National Samples, Sexual Abuse in Childhood, and Adjustment in Adulthood; A Commentary on Najman, Dunne, Purdie, Boyle, and Coxeter (2005); Archives of Sexual Behavior; December 2006 
Based on the foregoing analyses, a more appropriate ending to their Abstract would be: “CSA in the Australian population is common but, according to the data in the current study, is only weakly associated with poorer sexual functioning in adulthood. Whether this association is causal, however, needs further study.” 
 

Najman, Jake M., Dunne, Michael P, & Boyle, Francis M., Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Sexual Dysfunction; Response to Commentary by Rind and Tromovitch (2007); Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2006 
We suggest that, while the concerns they raise represent legitimate reservations about the validity of our findings, on balance the available evidence indicates an association between CSA and sexual dysfunction that is of “moderate” magnitude, probably causal, and unlikely to be a consequence of confounding or measurement error.

Quotes from
Rind, Bruce, An Empirical Examination of Sexual Relations Between Adolescents and Adults
: They Differ from Those Between Children and Adults and Should Be Treated Separately; Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality Volume: 16 Issue: 2/3, 2005 
For heterosexual adolescent boys involved with women and for gay/bisexual adolescent boys involved with men, the non-clinical empirical data are strongly at odds with the assumption of trauma. Simply put, the rape and incest models, developed 30 years ago in America to describe the horrors of rape of women by men and incestuous assault of young girls by their male guardians, are inappropriate when applied to adolescent boys sexually involved with adults of the gender they prefer. In these relations, the data point more directly to psychological benefit than harm.  

Rivas, Titus, Propaganda about science 
[...] I have personally been mentioned in the context of one or more articles that aim against a study by Rind, Tromovitch and Bauserman. [...] as one of several Dutch authors who want to promote "pseudoscience" in the cause of 'pedophilia'. 

Tiefer, Leonore, PhD., Outraged; Letter to APA; July 15, 1999 
Your response to the Congressional and conservative organizations' furor, as presented in The New York Times, seems to me to have been exactly the opposite of what was needed. You should have taken the opportunity to rush to the Hill to explain to Congress how peer review works [...] to explain to Congress how meta-analysis is an excellent new tool [...], to explain to Congress that political interference with scientific processes is exactly what won't help children and won't help society understand complex and controversial issues, and to offer workshops on child sexuality and meta-analytic techniques to assist Congress in the future.

Other articles

Hekma, Gert

The drive for sexual equality; 2007 
The great enigmatic change, according to me, is the transformation from theories
and practices of sexual desire that stress the absolute necessity of inequality to
those that reject such ideas and put an emphasis on egalitarian, even pure erotic relations. 
For most of human history, sexual bonds were inherently unequal. [...]
Since Romanticism an ideology of sexual equality has come into play. [...]
It is amazing to witness the radical change of a theory and practice of desire that is founded in social inequalities of gender, age and class to a new ideology in which love mainly arises between equal partners. This development continues with always growing force, parallel to a transformation from a homo social to a hetero-social organization of society. [...]
The most surprising part of this revolution is its radicalism. 

Hekma, Gert, Sexual democracy and the exclusion of boy lovers; Gert Hekma, in KOINOS # 52, Winter 2006 [Short version of the article here above] 
Until recently, we were living in a sexual system in which the satisfaction of lust mainly took place among people in unequal social positions: man and woman, old and young, rich and poor, rich man’s son and housemaid, butch and femme, queen and trade (feminine homosexual and masculine heterosexual). Now, the world is converting to a different system which stresses the aspect of equality. 

Hekma, Gert, Sexualdemokratie und die Ausgrenzung der Jungenliebhaber; in KOINOS # 52, Winter 2006 
Bis vor kurzem lebten wir in einem Sexualsystem, in dem die Lustbefriedigung vor allem zwischen sozial ungleichen Personen erfolgte: Mann und Frau, Alt und Jung, Arm und Reich, Sohn reicher Eltern und Dienstmädchen, Hurenbock und Hure, Butch und Femme, Tunte und Tülle (femininer Homosexueller und maskuliner Heterosexueller). Jetzt wechselt man zu einem anderen System, in dem der Aspekt der Gleichheit betont wird. 

Punkerslut

Homosexuality, 2005 
It is the belief of Dr. Laura, that it is a biological error, not to engage in activities which produce children. If we are to accept this morbid description, of a possible meaning of life, and if we accept it to be true, that procreation is the only purpose, then we must also accept that a bond of love holds no purpose than this. When we see a lover touch the face of the person of their desires, seeing the gentle fingers caress the soft skin, we must turn away from what our heart tells us, we must believe that our eyes are lying to us, and we must reason, that since affection and kindness produce no children, they are "some kind of biological error." 
 
Prostitution, 2005 
There is no doubt that prostitution should be legalized. For some time, casual sex without commitment was a matter of law. It was illegal. But today, we are smart enough to understand and believe that what two consenting people do behind closed doors is their business and their business only.

Rivas, Titus, Voluntary and harmless affectionate relationships between minors and adults outside the family 
For several decades now, sexologists have been conducting research into the phenomenon of voluntary "pedophile relationships". These are relationships which at least as long as they exist are experienced by the child as voluntary and in which there does not have to be any sexuality. We're talking about affectionate relationships between an adult with pedophile feelings (of erotic attraction or being in love) and a minor up to sixteen years of age. 

January 2007

Ipce Magazine

"Ipce Magazine" is the way Ipce presents its new files to the readers. 
Each issue has a main theme, an introduction and theme-related articles. 
Sometimes also a theme-related documentation list and other files. 

Ipce magazine # 1, January 2007 
Theme: Laws

More and more states have created laws, said "to protect children", but actually to control, criminalisize, demonosize and to ban who are called "sex offenders", a great category of convicted people, ranging from tiny breaks of a law onto serious offences. [...]
The articles describe the trends and the critics in general, the list of documents refers to more specific information about states and court cases. 

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Other files

Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994 - Lawrence A. Greenfeld, Director; 
Patrick A. Langan, Erica L. Schmitt, and Matthew R. Durose, all BJS statisticians, wrote this report. Carolyn Williams and Tom Hester edited and produced it. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2003

Highlights 1 

Re-arrest Less Likely for Sex Offenders; November 16, 2003 
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Sex offenders are less likely to be rearrested after their release from 
prison than other criminals, a government study finds.

Press release
Short version with highlights 2
Complete report as a PDF file (500 kb)
On line: < http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rsorp94.htm >

Quotes from: 
Introduction & four chapters from Jay R. Feierman (ed.), Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions, Springer-Verlag, New York (1990), ISBN 0-387-97243-9 

Most of the lay and professional literature although voluminous, reflect a narrow anthropo-, ethno-, and chronocentrism that precludes any real understanding of the topic with anything more than the preconceptions of our times. [...]
[...] This volume adds to this data base by including new, biosocial contribution from the perspectives of history, political science, sexology, biology, primatology, anthropology, experimental and developmental psychology, and psychiatry. What results is a transspecies, transcultural, and transhistorical perspective that gives new biosocial insights into the roots of pedophilia as the phenomenon is found in contemporary industrialized societies.

Dolan, Kathryn J., Review 
 
Quotes from the introduction and four chapters are given: 
Bullough V.L., History in Adult Human Sexual Behavior with Children and Adolescents in Western Society, 
Mackey W.C., Adult-Male/Juvenile Association as a Species-Characteristic Human Trait: A Comparative Field Approach, 
Okami P.; Sociopolitical Biases in the Contemporary Scientific Literature on Sexual Behavior with Children and Adolescents, & 
Waal, F.B.M. de; Sociosexual Behavior Used for Tension Regulation in All Age and Sex Combinations Among Bonobos.