Scott then suddenly it will become all about "demanding equal rights".This is a mess of a situation, 16 million effected people worldwide most of whom we're told do not want to cause harm. So what're you gonna do; light up some sort of pedo-holocaust.
The problem is what she is saying in the current "liberal" climate that she is saying it in: it's a sexual orientation. No, it's not.Maybe it comes more to semantics as it seems to me it's dysfunction rather than an 'orientation'.
And then you have the problem of people in high places of power molesting away with abandon..I am not meaning to diminish that depravity by saying it has been going on forever, but, shades of grey, it seems to me a rather different situation from the person who knows the way he feels is simply wrong, doesn't know why he feels that way and doesn't know how to get help.
Pedophiles need to take responsibility for the fact that their feelings ARE THEIR CHOICE, ultimately, and they CAN choose to feel differently.Yes, for the vast majority, almost certainly . . . but, for what I expect to be a very rare case. See my comments just below on the Janov patient decades back who was in fact taking responsibility.
They'd just rather not bother, because trying to con the world into accepting their deviancy is so much easier.How do you know ? ? And I don't think such a con to be the first part of easy. In fact, I can't think of very much that might be more difficult . . .
A man looks with interest at the child sitting in front of him in the metro, as a voice asks off-screen: “Do you like children in ways that you shouldn't?”
“Help is available,” adds the advertisement broadcast on German television and over the internet, urging people who feel sexually attracted to children to join a unique therapy programme called “Don't offend” (Kein Taeter werden).
Launched some 11 years ago, the largely publicly-funded project by Berlin's top university hospital Charite calls on paedophiles to undertake a treatment that helps them control their urges.
More than 7,000 people have sought information on the programme, which is offered in 11 centres across Germany.
Of these, 659 people have undertaken the therapy, with 251 completing the entire programme. Another 265 are currently being given treatment either in group or individual sessions.
The German initiative is unique because it deals with potential sex criminals, or those who have already committed abuses but have managed to escape justice.
Other programmes deal with convicted paedophiles who have also been issued specific orders to seek medical care.
Klaus Beier, who leads the prevention network as well as Charite's sexual medicine institute, has no illusions about the programme.
“Paedophilia is not curable,” he said.
“But it can be treated,” he added, stressing that “a paedophile can learn to control his urges.”
The project is grounded on the principle that sexual attraction to children is a medical problem, and as Beier said, “not a crime” until the urge is acted upon.
The World Health Organisation too classifies paedophilia as a “sexual preference disorder”.
Over one or two years, during two-hour sessions every week, the patient is taught to develop strategies to stop himself from acting on his tendencies or from consuming child pornography.
The programme also helps the patient to acquire a level of empathy towards potential victims, which could go towards dissuading him from hurting them.
The patient can choose to remain anonymous throughout the treatment, even with his therapist, and at the end of the programme, he can request follow-ups.
Medical help, such as chemical castration, is also offered on a voluntary basis.
Scientists from around the world including countries in North America as well as Switzerland and India, have been watching the project with interest.
Pedophiles are criminals, and those with "pedophilic urges" have criminal minds and are walking time bombs. So please, don't call this "sexual orientation", call it for what it is: pathological nonsense.As I said earlier, I don't think it's an 'orientation' I think it's profound dysfunction.
Abstractwhich is one the best descriptions I've read in 45 years of study.
Neurosis is not an illness in the medical sense. Rather, it is a chronic functional disorder of the autonomic nervous system. This disorder is a result of environmental conditioning, which begins in the womb. It is caused by the imprinting of, and the continuous retrieval and repression of, fear memories. This chronic imbalance effectively interferes with the nervous system’s ability to correctly respond to present sensory input. Skewed interpersonal responses are a hallmark of neurosis.
The imbalance also precipitates neural toxicosis of the autonomic nervous system. The nervous system's attempts to detoxify itself results in ongoing exaggerated autonomic responses, which we experience as generalized and exaggerated expressions, such as rage, anxiety, and depression.
Neurosis can be healed by the intentioned retrieval of such memories in portions that are small enough to be absorbed by our higher thought processes. The continuous retrieval of portions of such memories reverses the condition of neural toxicosis, thereby relieving excessive mood swings. Neurotic tension, and the act out that is driven by this tension, is also decreased in direct proportion to the amount of fear memory that is processed.
All of the symptoms that the DSM catalogues and groups into separate and overlapping categories of mental illness, are actually each person’s unique, learned responses to their automatic fear memory recall. The neurotic response is a symptom, which is a projection of the constantly occurring fear response onto a present situation.
About the author…A credible individual then . . .
The author has been a Rehabilitation Specialist for the City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts for 15 years. He manages the repair of homes for low income persons, using Federal Funds.
He is also a certified T’ai Chi and Ch’I Kung instructor and holds a Black Belt in Chinese style Karate.
Prior to receiving his PhD in Natural Health from Clayton College, he earned a Master of Science degree in Science, Technology, and Values from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He is Certified through the International Primal Association as a Primal Integration Educator and facilitates Fear Memory Integration: a naturopathic emotional wellness therapy that he has modeled upon the principals of Primal Therapy. His work is informed by the latest research in fear memory formation and eradication and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
He is also a graduate of the Men’s Leadership Training Program of Boulder, Colorado.
First we "accept pedophiles", but don't worry - they're not going to act anything out. We'll just drug them or get them treatment, right?
But once they are accepted, and they have an Official Sexual Orientation, then suddenly it will become all about "demanding equal rights".
And then the shit hits the fan.