Start here: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/12/02/final-dsm-5-approved-by-american-psychiatric-association/
The only change in the definition of pedophilia is as follows: "Pedophilic disorder criteria will remain unchanged from DSM-IV, but the disorder name will be revised from pedophilia to pedophilic disorder." This is a much better clinical and empirically based label. >From the sounds of the article you cited (I noticed that world net daily has also been hysterically upset) its another manufactured tempest.I find this paragraph very telling "In 1998 The APA issued a report claiming that the negative potential of adult sex with children was overstated and that the vast majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from childhood sexual abuse experiences. " That is very incorrect. I'm not going to go into the thing, except to say that the APA reacted very badly at the time in withdrawing its support for the article, something it later acknowledged. The they reference was a meta-analysis of the impact of sexual abuse on later mental well being. The meta-analysis found that kids tend to be very resilient. They were not eternally damaged goods as was the mantra of those of a moralistic bent. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:52 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote: > > I find myself in the odd position of having been presented with a "news" > article by a conservative/right-wing site that I would prefer not to be > true. As someone that has used the term "slippery slope" on more than one > occasion I knew that it was one of the eventual possible extensions of > other events. As a father it churns my stomach and makes me want to > scream, "are you all insane?!" > > Gut-churn warning... this article is about kids, pedophiles and civil > rights. If you have problems with those three concepts being mixed, DO NOT > CONTINUE. In all honesty I am looking for a reason NOT to talk about this > on my podcast. > > > http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/07/it-begins-pedophiles-call-for-same-rights-as-homosexuals-2687228.html > > I'm not going to copy/paste content from the article... simply put there > are advocates for normalizing pedophilia (and all other ilia's) as yet > another sexual orientation which would be then covered by the broad-term > anti-discrimination and hate crime protection laws that have been passed. > > There are references to APA findings, speeches by lawmakers, professors and > other organizations. > > Somebody please - tell me this is conspiracy theory and not actually > happening. > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some > smelting to find it. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
