'Harmful
to Minors' - The
perils of protecting children from sex - Lecture about the book
of Judith Levine, Harmful
for Minors, The perils of protecting children from sex, 2001, University of
Minnesota Press, Minneapolis / London
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1 November 2002 Study conference 'Aljen
Klamer group', Paul' s Church, "Abuse by definition? Image and
reality", by Frans Gieles
Early loss of virginity 'leads to
less stress'; By Roger Dobson 27 October 2002; The Independent
The earlier a woman has sex, the less stressed she is as an adult, scientists
have discovered. When they questioned women about their sexual history and
tested them for levels of a stress hormone, they found that the lowest levels
were among those who had sex the earliest. A similar but smaller effect was
found for men.
The dark side of Peter Pan;
Mad about the boy; Why are we so fixated by the story of a child who never grows
up? Lyn Gardner on the dark side of Peter Pan; Lyn Gardner Wednesday December
11, 2002 The Guardian
[...] If we are ever really going to grow up, it seems crucial that we should
confront the play's dark core, and deal with its disturbing psychological
suggestiveness in a truly adult manner. We should stop wrapping it in a hazy
gauze of nostalgia and acknowledge that Peter Pan is not just a work of genius,
but a work of genuine horror.
New book
As the author of "Das Protokoll", I want to let you know its
appearance at Kontrast-Verlag in these days. From a professional
point of view (I am Psychologist), the book reflects some hysteric and
abusive aspects of present discussion about "pedofilia" in
Western Society.
Gerald
Moonen v. The
Film and Literature Board of Review
An
Artist’s response to “just criticism” of the State. [Word
doc.]
Decision of 26 November of
the Film and Literature Board of Review.
Gerald Moonen, 26 November 2002
About The Moralist
[< http://www.themoralist.com/
>]
The reading was a success, [...] Sample questions attached.
Also attached, another piece for my reading in Sacramento, the capital city of
California.
Gay Sheep May Help Explain Biology
of Homosexuals; Nov 4, 2002, By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
Reuters
Gay sheep that mate only with other rams have different brain structures from
"straight" sheep, a finding that may shed light on human sexuality,
U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Finkelhor:
risks overstated
Last
November I sent a message to IMO exposing the falsehoods in the use of 1-in-5
statistic re children being sexually solicited on the Internet.
[...]
Although the author of the study it comes from, David Finkelhor, a child sex
abuse expert, limited the statistic's applicability, others stripped it of its
context in order to exaggerate the perception of danger to children.
Finkelhor has now been quoted in the nation's leading newspaper saying that the
Dallas author Rod Downey treads shaky
ground with new novel about older man and young boy Printable Version -
BOOKS - The dangerous topic of pederasty, By Arnold Wayne Jones; Dallas Voice
As I read about the ideas espoused by Rod Downey in preparation for our
interview, [...]
Four million of us are sex
cheats - Ben Summerskill Sunday October 27, 2002 The Observer
More than 4 million husbands and wives across Britain have committed adultery,
according to an ICM poll for The Observer. And, far from being promiscuous,
young people in long-term relationships outside marriage are almost as likely to
be monogamous as their married counterparts.
[...] The average age at which today's 16- to 24-year-olds lost their virginity
is 15-and-a-half. For their grandparents and great-grandparents, those over 65,
it was 19.
Sympathy for the
Devil? Focus: The paedophile threat - Angela Neustatter Sunday October 20,
2002 The Observer
Pervert, monster, evil. That is our gut reaction to men who harm children. Yet
evidence shows that, to contain the menace of paedophilia, we need to understand
what drives the abusers.
[...]
Helping offenders to live normal lives within society is precisely the aim of
the three befriending projects that began this summer with Home Office funding.
They are modelled on the Canadian experience, which now offers 33 befriending
circles for sex offenders.
Most Homophobes are Gay,
OutRage! 1998
Research by US psychologist Prof. Adams of the University of Georgia suggests
that 80 percent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings.
In Prof. Adams's test, homophobic men who said they were exclusively
heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused
by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a penile circumference measuring
device (a plethysmograph).
Parents:
Your pre-teen may be a pedophile Cleveland TV News (12 June 2002)
The sexual interest in much younger children may begin to appear at 11, 12, or
13, so experts say the sixth grade is an appropriate time to talk to children
about such sexual feelings.
[..] They stress that it's important to teach them the dangers of such thoughts
[..]
Parents should make sure the therapist uses plethysmographs
("peter-meters") or polygraphs ("lie detectors"), can
prescribe sex-drive reducing drugs, and uses covert sensitization, aversion or
satiation to directly reduce sexual interest [..]
 |
Facts
and resources for identifying, stopping pedophilia. |
Updated science list
My list of scientific articles dealing with pedophilia and related subjects has
been extended [...]
Gary
Wills reviews books by Philip Jenkins, Judith Levine, Michael S. Rose; The
New York Review of Books, 13
June 2002
.
| Priests and Boys: An Exchange, By David Hirsch, Judith Levine, Kenneth L. Woodward, Philip Jenkins, Reply by Garry Wills; The New York Review of Books, September 26, 2002 |
The trouble with
boys, National Post - Editorial 30 May 02
Delegates at Congress 2002 in Toronto, a week-long gathering of thousands of
social scientists from around the world, have been grappling with the growing
gender gap in schools. Why are girls closing the gap between themselves and boys
in traditionally male-dominated subjects such as math and sciences, while boys
are falling farther behind girls in female-friendly subjects such as reading and
writing?
Some delegates have proposed sensible answers.
Could you befriend a
paedophile? BBC UK News, 28 August 2002.
Do convicted paedophiles need decent friends if they are to be stopped from
re-offending? Eileen Henderson pioneered the befriending of sex offenders in
Canada, a method now being copied in the UK. "Some of these guys aren't
very nice characters," says Eileen Henderson, who is currently a
"friend" to four convicted child sex offenders around Toronto, Canada.
"But even with them you see small changes, small growth, small miracles.
These people have done horrendous things, but you see glimpses of the
human."
Set up with government funding six years ago, so-called "Circles of
Support" (such as the ones Ms Henderson sits on) aim to safely reintegrate
paedophiles into a hostile society after their prison sentences are complete.
| [Cfr < http://www.imo.myweb.nl/library_two/scpgt/scapegoat_frame.htm
> about the "Circles of Support"] |
Paul Goodman - Meet
Paul. He's A Teacher, Writer, And Pederast, Posted by Puzzled on 2002-August-19
[Fwd]
Paul Goodman (1911-1972) wrote the passage printed below. He wrote this at a
time when homosexuality was still considered a mental disorder and consensual
gay sex was widely illegal and being prosecuted routinely.
Goodman was an author of fiction and non-fiction, and 1960's Growing Up
Absurd was his most well-known work. He wrote novels. He wrote short
stories. He wrote poems. And he wrote this: [...]
Jessie Mann on being
photographed - Posted by NFiH on Saturday, August 17 2002
[I] think this is from her Aperture interview; I found it on Usenet:
[...] There are so many levels to childhood that we as a society ignore, or don't
accept. Rather than just saying it, she was able to capture it with photographs.
It's easy to discount these things unless you can really see them in the kids'
eyes, or see it in their actions.
I also think she brought out a certain sexuality in children that nobody wants
to think about.
Letter to media
With a lot of hesitation, Thursday's radio program has come to the point where I
just 'have' to write to you [...] I'm writing about the problems you
discussed of boys unable to express emotions and thus suppressing them....
So many times during the program you and Roberta and even your callers mentioned
the benefit of an adult male who would be sympathetic to letting the boy cry and
express emotions in other
ways, rather than numbing and suppressing them...
Armand, let me remind you that there IS a whole not-so-small segment of our
society that IS that kind of men... gentle, caring and admiring of boys (and
thus very tolerant and sympathetic to them) -- the notorious term is "boy
lovers"
Carroll's
Artistry and Our Obsessions
SAN FRANCISCO —
THE man who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through
the Looking-Glass" was an equally brilliant photographer. But in modern
times Lewis Carroll's achievements have been overshadowed by the widely held
conviction that his primary inspiration, literary and artistic, was an unsavory
obsession with little girls.
Words Never Spoken;
Letter Never Sent - Posted by Boz on 2002-July-18 on BoyChat.
Dear [Zeb], [...]
[...] The hardest part of love is letting go, but that is what I have to do. It
is what we both have to do, to some extent.
Don't think that I will ever forget you. There is no chance of that ever
happening. You are the most wonderful and special person I have ever known; the
person I have cared more about than any past or present. [...]
Who Are the
Pedophiles in Your Neighborhood? By John Huffam
Posted by Boz on 2002-August-14 [Original source unknown]
In this offering, the sixth in the series, Mr. Huffam offers what looks more
like a straightforward journalistic report, but in the end gives a portrait of
another kind of person in our communities we might not often think of. The names
of the people in the story all have been changed for their own protection. [...]
There are million of people in the world like Pat Bishop. People who have no
idea that the man who runs the corner store or their child' teacher is a
pedophile. People who praise these folks for being such wonderful people and
they are. They are non-offenders, genuinely care about the wellbeing of the kids
they know, but just happen to also be sexually attracted to some of them. They
are, in one sense, highly visible people, but in another sense, they are
completely hidden away. Until people are ready to conceive of the possibility
that pedophiles can just be another person in the neighborhood, they will have
to remain in the shadows. It is just unclear who could possibly benefit from
prolonging that situation.
| [No message] The author mails us that the story is fiction only. |
The Double Standard, by
Richard Goldstein
This brief excerpt is the beginning of an article in the August 20, 2002 edition
of The Advocate.
If you've been following the scandals involving priests and boys, no doubt
you've heard a Roman Catholic Church official or two argue that most of these
predatory clerics aren't actually pedophiles since they're not attracted to
prepubescent children. Teen are their temptation, and that makes them
ephebophiles. Say what?
A New Kind of Spin the
Bottle; Oprah.com - From the show Dr. Phil on Alarming Sexual Behavior Among
Children
Times have changed: children as young as twelve are having oral sex. It's not
just the "fast kids," either; it's the clean-cut ones, too. According
to a survey by Seventeen, 55% of teenagers have tried oral sex. Find out
about this new teenage trend.
Sex between teenage boys and
older men is not always coercive -- and it can be more ecstatic than
traumatic; Minor report; David Tuller, Salon.Com July 22, 2002
[....] it doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination -- at least not of my
imagination, nor, as it turns out, the imaginations of other gay men of my
acquaintance -- to believe that there are some men whose lives were not
destroyed, or may even have been enhanced, by adolescent sex with a priest. They
have not gone public, nor would I expect them to, especially in the current
environment. But that they exist -- somewhere -- I have little doubt.
The Romance a Teenage Camper
Couldn't Have Today Summer of Love, in: Village Voice, by Judith Levine,
Week of July 3 - 9, 2002
This is an innocent story. In 1967, the summer before my 15th birthday, I fell
in love. It was my first intense erotic love, and its object was the photography
counselor at camp -- a lean, bearded, blue-eyed guy I'll call Jake. He was 26.
Nothing sexual happened. Still, I think of those two months as the summer of my panouissement,
a French word meaning blossoming or opening, which also means glow. Jake took
hundreds of pictures of me, and his affirmation and his camera opened me to
myself. They helped me begin, sexually, to glow.
If the same events had occurred in 2002, they would not be viewed as innocent.
The adults around me would write my chaste romance as a perverse tale, casting
Jake as a predator and me as his hapless, clueless prey. Had I started my sex
education with good-touch-bad-touch lessons in kindergarten or listened for a
decade to media reporting on a world allegedly crowded with sexual malefactors
sniffing the world for young flesh, I might even have believed that my friend
and mentor Jake was one of them. That sweet idyll would have been, instead, the
summer of my victimization. And instead of opening me, Jake's attentions might
have closed me down in fear and confusion.
Kids' Sexuality Finds a
Champion -- and Conservatives Attack Underage and Under Siege, in: Village
Voice, by Sharon Lerner Week of July 3 - 9, 2002
[..] Drawing on social science and history, Levine makes a strong case that the
denial of sexuality is the true cause of harm to minors. [..] Harmful
to Minors' most important contribution is tying that protective impulse
to adults' deep-rooted discomfort with their own sexuality.
Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Law-Enforcement Officers Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Children by Acquaintance Molesters, Fourth Edition September 2001, By Kenneth V. Lanning