These sentiments were discussed at a conference that took place last year to discuss the classification of sexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard international psychiatric manual used by the legal system.
The conference, which was titled "Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5″, had featured a number of speakers who spoke in favor of sex with children, which, in essence, is supporting pedophilia.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA), which produces it, had been locked in battle over whether hebephilia should be included as a disorder. Hebephilia is the sexual preference for children in early puberty, typically 11 to 14 year old's.
The proposal was being discussed because children are going through puberty at a younger age and the current definition of pedophilia is attraction to pre-pubescent children.
Comment: So should all children undergo an exam to see if they have gone through puberty and if so, we should allow adults to have sex with an 11-year old? That's madness! Whether or not a child is pre-pubescent does not change the fact that it would be deemed rape in any society for an adult to sleep with an 11-year-old.
One of the attendees, and enthusiastic participant, was Tom O'Carroll, a multiple child sex offender and long time campaigner for the legalization of sex with children and former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange. "Wonderful!" he wrote on his blog afterwards. "It was a rare few days when I could feel relatively popular!"
The Telegraph reproted:
After a fierce battle in the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which produces it, a proposal to include hebephilia as a disorder in the new edition of the manual has been defeated. The proposal arose because puberty in children has started ever earlier in recent decades and as a result, it was argued, the current definition of paedophilia - pre-pubertal sexual attraction - missed out too many young people.
Ray Blanchard, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, who led the APA's working group on the subject, said that unless some other way was found of encompassing hebephilia in the new manual, that was "tantamount to stating that the APA's official position is that the sexual preference for early pubertal children is normal".
Prof Blanchard was in turn criticized by a speaker at the Cambridge conference, Patrick Singy, of Union College, New York, who said hebephilia would be abused as a diagnosis to detain sex offenders as "mentally ill" under US "sexually violent predator" laws even after they had completed their sentences.
But perhaps the most controversial presentation of all was by Philip Tromovitch, a professor at Doshisha University in Japan, who stated in a presentation on the "prevalence of paedophilia" that the "majority of men are probably paedophiles and hebephiles" and that "paedophilic interest is normal and natural in human males".
O'Carroll, the former PIE leader, was thrilled, and described on his blog how he joined Prof Tromovitch and a colleague for drinks after the conference. "The conversation flowed most agreeably, along with the drinks and the beautiful River Cam," he said.
of the MOST DANGEROUS KIND. I did 5 sec digging and here's what I find:
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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) stated that all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law. “This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.”
Imagine all the psychopaths in high places not going to have to worry that they will face the law for being sex offenders. Chills my blood. And doesn't "all of these ‘philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’" include the sexual perversions of murderous psychopaths? Or is that future work as well? I am about to vomit.
"This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on PREJUDICE " Only a true psychopath can write something like this.... Hastings as well as Van Gijseghem don't even need brain scans.... Today, normals are prejudiced, tomorrow, they will be hunted... By law...
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Van Gijseghem, psychologist and retired professor of the University of Montreal, told members of Parliament, “Pedophiles are not simply people who commit a small offense from time to time but rather are grappling with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another individual may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality.”
Small offense..............
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In July, 2010 Harvard health Publications said, “Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and unlikely to change. Treatment aims to enable someone to resist acting on his sexual urges.”
Pedophilia is a serious sickness that requires full isolation from society. Treatment is probably not even feasible.
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Sex offender laws protecting children have been challenged in several states including California, Georgia and Iowa. Sex offenders claim the laws prohibiting them from living near schools or parks are unfair because it penalizes them for life.
Very concerned about the need of other psychopaths, aren't we? US academia and politics are psychopathic in all of the senses and aspects of the word, it seems. I am glad I have never gone to the USA and probably never will. Because at this rate of events, murderous psychopaths will do as they please and you will be the one hiding from the law.