> By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.
> ? 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
The date of the article is March 26th, and may be found at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_excomm/19990326_xex_the_apas_aca.shtml
> In 1977 I first clashed with a group of people I call "Academic Pedophile
> Advocates"
*She* calls them that, yet later implies that this is an organized
group.
> at the British Psychological Association's "Conference on
> Love and Attraction" at Swansea University in Wales.
Is there such a thing as the British Psych Association? I found the
British Psych Society... Trying to draw unwarranted connections between
the APA and the BPS? World-wide psychological conspiracy?
> The Journal of Paedophilia
Never heard of such a journal, and a websearch turned up nothing. It's
certainly not an APA publication, nor does it appear to be a BPS
publication.
> while professors in major universities worked
> covertly to gain unlimited sexual access to their children, and ours.
Right. There is such a *wealth* of information out there on childhood
sexuality. So much so the entire topic gets covered in a paragraph or
two in the Carroll and Wolpe human sexuality text, and much of that
space is devoted to commenting on the *lack* of information available.
> Radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger recently exposed such pedophile advocacy
> in the powerful American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.
Must have been a letter to the editor...
> A Temple University psychology professor, a University of Pennsylvania
> education teacher and a psychology professor at the University of Michigan
> claim they investigated 59 "studies" on child sexual abuse of college
> students. Imagine! Sex with children could be fun said the APA authors, so
> "willing" child sex abuse should be OK.
Nothing like citing research without citing research. I would love to
know what the "APA authors" *really* said.
> Dr. Laura concluded that the APA, representing 155,000 members, had "gone
> soft" on child molesters. "I'm scared this study could be used to normalize
> pedophilia, to change the legal system ... like it did homosexuality."
Right. Normalizing homosexuality has brought about the downfall of the
country. In most places in this country we can still fire them, throw
them out of their apartments, take away their children, and refuse their
wish to be included on their partner's health insurance... yet they
*still* keep asking for these "special rights." Pesky queers.
> True, but the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
> (NARTH),
Haven't heard of that either and a web search turned up nothing, but
it's clearly not mainstream psychology, given APAs' stances on therapy
for homosexuality. (Given the number of problems heterosexuals have --
the vast majority of child molesters are heterosexual -- seems like
there should be an association for "Research and Therapy of
Heterosexuality".)
> noted that "the American Psychiatric Association already set the
> stage ... [in] the latest diagnostic manual (DSMIV), a person no longer has
> a psychological disorder simply because he molests children." Thus the APA
> created psychologically normal" paedophiles.
I don't know enough about the differences between the DSM-IIIR and the
DSM-IV to comment. Anyone else?
> The NARTH article concludes, "If psychology indeed recognizes consensual
> pedophilia as harmless, then civil law and social norms will be under
> pressure to follow the lead of social science as indeed they did on the
> issue of homosexuality."
"If psychology indeed" does. Strawman?
> Farberman, the APA publicist denied that publication in the Psychological
> Bulletin implies APA endorsement. "We are a scientific organization. ... We
> try to create a lot of dialogue." But when Dr. Laura worried the APA was
> signaling an "attempt to normalize pedophilia," the APA spokeswoman found
> that dialogue "ridiculous," citing a paltry 2.8 journal articles per year
> for nine years as APA's commitment "to protect children and ... families."
If the APA was truly trying to promote something here, they could have
chosen not to publish "Dr. Laura's" letter.
> Is the recent APA Academic Pedophile Advocacy article,
Gotta love it. Makes it sound like the APA has a new division -- the
APA division of APA. Catchy.
> one of the 26 they
> printed "to protect ... children and ... families"? Perhaps. Listen:
> Farberman says "child sexual abuse is harmful." She does not say
> "child-adult sex" is harmful. The oxymoron, "consensual" adult-child sex has
> been promoted in psychology and sexology circles since Kinsey. No surprise
> that this "study" finds the "negative potential" of sexual abuse is
> "overstated."
Another possibility: The negative potential of sexual abuse *is*
overstated.
> These authors claim up to 37 percent of abused boys and 11 percent of abused
> girls whom they interviewed, reported their abuse as "positive."
"The authors *claim*"? Is Reisman implying faked data? That's a
serious charge.
> The APA is a reprise of Kinsey's fraudulent "study," which took 50 years to
> begin to expose. Kinsey used child rapists in 1948 who "proved" their
> victims enjoyed being raped. When children fainted and had convulsions
> during molestation, Kinsey (a sado-masochist) reported their torture as
> "pleasure" and "orgasm." He claimed the "hysterical ... emotional reactions
> of the parents, police officers, and others" to molestation, created child
> trauma. The APA authors agree. Absent moralism, say the APA authors,
> children would be untroubled by sexual molestation.
I'd love to see the source of this info. I wonder if it's from
Reisman's book mentioned below, which prompted one Amazon.com reader to
write, "Her research is misleading and inaccurate."
> Spitting in the face of massive data to the contrary, APA's Academic
> Pedophile Advocates claim child sexual abuse is less harmful than physical
> abuse, neglect and verbal abuse! The goal? "Classifying a behavior as abuse
> simply because it is generally viewed as immoral or defined as illegal is
> problematic."
What's wrong with that statement? Because a bunch of folks don't like
it doesn't mean it's abuse; seems reasonable to me.
> Said Schlessinger to her listeners. "I've read this so many times, I'm
> sick." "Psychology has become a god to the general public. ... If pedophilia
> is not a mental disorder, what is it?"
Define "mental disorder", Dr. Laura.
> Later we'll talk about how Academic Pedophile Advocates are bringing a
> "pedophile abduction rights" bill to a theater near you. For example, in
> 1994 Oregon Senate Bill 586 proposed that anyone who "established emotional
> ties with child may file ... for custody, guardianship, visitation" if they
> had "a relationship ... within the six months ... through interaction,
> companionship, interplay and mutuality." Stay tuned. Anyone smell an APA
> rat?
Please. The only way someone could read "sexual relationship" in there
is if one is looking for it.
> Dr. Reisman is the president of the Institute for Media Education,
> Crestwood, Kentucky. Her latest book is "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences"
> (1998).
The book, btw, was published by Reisman's own Institute for Media
Education, as was her other book _Kinsey, Sex and Fraud : The
Indoctrination of a People _. A third book, _'Soft Porn' Plays Hardball
: Its Tragic Effects on Women, Children and the Family_ (I'll guess it's
the same publisher, but the Library of Congress doesn't open its files
until 11am EST) prompted an Amazon.com reader to write,
WHAT A HORRIBLE BOOK!!!!
The author needs to get educated and start living in the 90's!
She thinks her opinion is the right
opinion and that she speaks for all women and children! She
doesnt speak for me! Of all the horrors
going on in the world, this is all she can complain about? What
a waste of time!
To read more about what Reisman has to say, go to
http://leaderu.com/jhs/reisman.html. If you'd like more info on the
Kinsey fraud, you can order a 30-min video from the (right-wing) Family
Research Council. Or go to http://www.academia.org/reisman.html to read
how "Title X ... allows schoolchildren to be exposed to toxic
sexuality information, defined as sex education and to receive
condoms." Toxic?
And I have *no* clue what the Institute for Media Education is all
about. I've been all over the internet and haven't found a reference to
it outside of "Dr. Judith Reisman, President of the Institute for Media
Education."
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