June 23rd, 2012
NewsRescue– It’s basically the same argument that was used to liberate homosexuality from the list of paraphilias (sex aberration disorders).
A group of disorders that includes: Pedophilia- love of prepubescent children, Narratophilia – love for obscene words, Zoophilia – animal love, Liquidophilia -Immersing genitals in liquids, Pygophilia – love of buttocks, Gerontophilia – Elderly people, Fecophilia/Coprophilia- love of feces, Apotemnophilia – Having an amputation and hundreds more, totaling 547 in the DSM psychiatry manual of clinical disorders.
It is important to note that the rest 547 are currently regarded as abnormal behavior, atypical and extreme, able to cause distress or serious problems for the individual.
Explained- if you are preferentially aroused by a particular body part, you suffer from partialism paraphilia. If you love wearing your spouses draws, you have transvestic fetishism. You basically are sick.
Chronology of the liberation of Homosexuality from paraphilia list (1973)
First, scientific studies were prepared to suggest that same sex attraction and then same sex actualization were biologically normal.
Next, homosexuality- same sex attraction(homophilia) with the related same sex actualization (MSM – Male sex male in men) was liberated from this list of over 500 paraphilias.
It was argued initially that same sex attraction(homophilia) was normal but should not lead to actualization with penetration and related activities.
A vote was cast at the APA (American Psychiatry Association) meeting in ’73 and homosexuality was freed. See: Homosexuality: The Mental Illness That Went Away
First came medical liberation and then came the legislature liberation, the Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) case that now legalized sodomy.
Some had insisted that after the liberation of same sex attraction(homophilia) and same sex activity from this list, other paraphilias will be liberated one-by-one, as advocacy groups insisted that these feelings were normal, and then, as happened with homosexuality, that the actualization of these were also normal.
Zoophilia and pedophilia were predicted to be next in line. Zoophilia advocacy groups have been clamoring for the liberation of zoophilia from the list.
Related: Telegraph – The dark side of sexual freedom: American ‘zoophiles’ take on the language of equality
With the obvious epidemic of pedophilia and pederasty in all quarters of Europe, Church, government and sports, culminating in the Sandusky trial and conviction, a case that exposed so many connections and global pedophilia networks, the media appears to have started making the case for the liberation of pedophilia.
Related: NewsRescue- Sandusky: Part of Global Illuminati Homosexual Pedophile Network
Update, April 5, 2013
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Below is CNN with the initiation of the same format that leads to the liberation from that list of parahilias:
CNN: Do pedophiles deserve sympathy?
Editor’s note: James Cantor, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, is a psychologist and senior scientist at the Sexual Behaviors Clinic of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. He is editor in chief of “Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment” and blogs at Sexology Today.
(CNN) — One cannot choose to not be a pedophile, but one can choose to not be a child molester.As details of the accusations of sexual abuse emerged from the Jerry Sandusky trial, and as the public looks on with horror, a central element to the case that has received scant attention is pedophilia itself.”Pedophilia” was long used as a synonym for “child molestation,” and both were often seen as psychological failures of self-control. Child molesters were thought to be acting out their own histories of abuses, reacting to fears of adult relationships, or manifesting a symptom that might be resolved in psychotherapy, after which they would no longer be pedophilic.
Recently, however, a number of studies have starting changing that view. It appears that one can be born with a brain predisposed to experience sexual arousal in response to children.
Pedophilic men have significantly less white matter, which is the connective tissue that is responsible for communication between different regions in the brain. Pedophiles perform more poorly on various tests of brain function, tend to be shorter in height and are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous (characteristics that are observable before birth). Although nonbiological features may yet turn up to be relevant, it is difficult, if not impossible, to explain the research findings without there being a strong role of biology.
No one has been able to find a way to change pedophiles into nonpedophiles. But that does not mean we cannot prevent child molestation. Sexual preference for children doesn’t have to result in actual sexual behaviors toward children.
Cases of child molestation that involve long strings of victims over the course of years illustrate what can happen when someone gives in to, or outright indulges, his sexual interests, regardless of its potential damage on others. It is those cases that dominate headlines and provoke revulsion toward pedophiles.
But they are rare. An untold number of cases merit sympathy.
The science suggests that they are people who, through no fault of their own, were born with a sex drive that they must continuously resist, without exception, throughout their entire lives. Little if any assistance is ever available for them.
They are often unable to consult mental health professionals (because of mandatory reporting rules); their families will often disown rather than support them; and despite the openness of the Internet, there are few options for coming out and joining communities of other pedophiles for mutual support.
Having encountered thousands of cases, it is my experience that the pedophiles who do go on to become actual child molesters do so when they feel the most desperate. Yet, much of what society does has been to increase rather than decrease their desperation.
In the United States especially, the great majority of attention is on punitive measures, invoked after the fact. However, the more beneficial social policies may be those aimed at prevention.
The best example of this effort is the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in Germany, supported financially by private donation. It began with a media campaign aimed at people struggling to resist their sexual interests to children. By offering counseling and other services, it is expected that they can remain offense-free. Hundreds of people contacted the Dunkelfeld project after it was established. People from all over the world, including Austria, Switzerland and England, turned to the assistance.
Another example is the Circles of Support and Accountability, which was developed in Canada. The programs are staffed by volunteers who have received training from professionals. They provide support to people who are under no mandate to attend but are nonetheless seeking help to not commit sexual offenses.
It’s too early to tell whether these efforts are effective over the long term, but preliminary reports are encouraging.
Even though very few researchers study the causes of pedophilia, we hope that the scientific community will learn more as new tools and opportunities become available.
If it is the brain’s wiring that ultimately determines who will go on to develop pedophilia, can we detect it early enough to interrupt the process? Until we uncover more information, we will do more good by making it easier for pedophiles to come in for help rather than force them into solitary secrecy.
