The part they likely primarily want to hide is this:
A 2008 study conducted by Michael Bourke, a psychologist for the U.S. Marshals Service, offered compelling evidence to the contrary. He found that people who view child pornography also tend to sexually abuse children. Bourke examined 155 prison inmates who had been convicted of possessing or distributing child pornography. Of those, only 26 percent had a known history of abusing kids. Bourke observed the group progress through months of therapy and eventually found that 131 of those men — 85 percent — acknowledged that they had molested a child.
Repeated exposure to child pornography makes abuse more likely, Bourke found, because it dehumanizes children. The online communities exacerbate the problem because they provide social validation and a sense of belonging.
This is significant, because presently there is an increasingly aggressive push in western societies to normalize pedophilia, and they are coming out of the woodwork under many videos about pizzagate and elsewhere, trying to insist that they would never harm a child, that it is just another sexual "orientation" and not a disorder, etc.
This is some next-level Machiavellianism from the overall Dark Triad, the other two elements being Narcissism and Psychopathy, which both also fit perfectly in the case of child predators.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that some of the people in question are pedophiles, as in they have the disorder that is pedophilia. As this evidence continues to grow and becomes harder to ignore or downplay, so too does the rebuttal grow louder that pedophilia is not the same thing as actually abusing a child.
Articles such as that one demonstrate that actually, by the time pedophiles are brazen enough to put themselves out there and try to manipulate people into accepting pedophilia as harmless or normal, the statistical chances are that children have already been abused in their wake.
I absolutely agree. The author did go into surprising detail about this study. They are testing the waters by making articles that say pedophilia is on the same level as other mental illnesses. I'm guessing once the public keeps seeing these articles and become desensitized to the topic, they will agree, and the people who decide to come out will be treated as victims of a horrible illness
I'm guessing once the public keeps seeing these articles and become desensitized to the topic, they will agree, and the people who decide to come out will be treated as victims of a horrible illness
NO WAY!
Actually, society has made progress in the past 4 decades at least in increasingly recognizing formerly hidden abuses. First there was spouse abuse, mostly women. Then there was physical child abuse. Then date rape. And before those things, back in the 60s, racism was recognized widely for the first time.
I don't think society will ever countenance pedophilia, which is child abuse.
Maybe you're looking at this from the perspective of religiously fundamentalist-defined sexual perversion. Homosexuality was widely considered to be sinful and evil, but is largely accepted now, because most realize that everyone has peculiar likes and dislikes and, if people mutually consent and don't harm each other or anyone else, then it's no one else's business. But in the case of pedophilia a child cannot properly consent, and society wants to protect kids from all abuses. It's initially hard to wake society up to abuses, but once they wake up, they don't tolerate it.
You're absolutely wrong... Homosexuality is wrong and natural law proves it. If it was okay, then homosexuals wouldn't have the disease rate they do and they wouldn't have the much lower lifespan than average humans if it was a morally acceptable position.
Also, homosexuals commit pedophilia and child abuse WAY WAY WAY above the average population. Jerry Sandusky is such an example. He is a homosexual. No matter how you twist and turn and try to change the logic, a man that has sex with a boy is a homosexual.
Girls are abused more but barely, while boys are actually sexually penetrated more than girls.... almost 2x the rate of girls:
Go to table 2: Out of a sample size of 1276 boys, 41.8% of them were sexually penetrated whereas only 22.9% of girls (out of a sample >2000).... A sample of >1000 is highly robust.
Also 4 out of 5 abusers are hetero or pedophile, and 1 out of 5 are gay which means that gays are WELL over-represented by population type. Gays are estimated to be anywhere between 1-5% of the population so at best, they are 4x over-represented by population statistics and at worst 20x.
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SheSaidDestroy ago
The part they likely primarily want to hide is this:
This is significant, because presently there is an increasingly aggressive push in western societies to normalize pedophilia, and they are coming out of the woodwork under many videos about pizzagate and elsewhere, trying to insist that they would never harm a child, that it is just another sexual "orientation" and not a disorder, etc.
This is some next-level Machiavellianism from the overall Dark Triad, the other two elements being Narcissism and Psychopathy, which both also fit perfectly in the case of child predators.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that some of the people in question are pedophiles, as in they have the disorder that is pedophilia. As this evidence continues to grow and becomes harder to ignore or downplay, so too does the rebuttal grow louder that pedophilia is not the same thing as actually abusing a child.
Articles such as that one demonstrate that actually, by the time pedophiles are brazen enough to put themselves out there and try to manipulate people into accepting pedophilia as harmless or normal, the statistical chances are that children have already been abused in their wake.
stunknife ago
I absolutely agree. The author did go into surprising detail about this study. They are testing the waters by making articles that say pedophilia is on the same level as other mental illnesses. I'm guessing once the public keeps seeing these articles and become desensitized to the topic, they will agree, and the people who decide to come out will be treated as victims of a horrible illness
NeedPolyGF ago
NO WAY!
Actually, society has made progress in the past 4 decades at least in increasingly recognizing formerly hidden abuses. First there was spouse abuse, mostly women. Then there was physical child abuse. Then date rape. And before those things, back in the 60s, racism was recognized widely for the first time.
I don't think society will ever countenance pedophilia, which is child abuse.
Maybe you're looking at this from the perspective of religiously fundamentalist-defined sexual perversion. Homosexuality was widely considered to be sinful and evil, but is largely accepted now, because most realize that everyone has peculiar likes and dislikes and, if people mutually consent and don't harm each other or anyone else, then it's no one else's business. But in the case of pedophilia a child cannot properly consent, and society wants to protect kids from all abuses. It's initially hard to wake society up to abuses, but once they wake up, they don't tolerate it.
ich1baN ago
You're absolutely wrong... Homosexuality is wrong and natural law proves it. If it was okay, then homosexuals wouldn't have the disease rate they do and they wouldn't have the much lower lifespan than average humans if it was a morally acceptable position.
Also, homosexuals commit pedophilia and child abuse WAY WAY WAY above the average population. Jerry Sandusky is such an example. He is a homosexual. No matter how you twist and turn and try to change the logic, a man that has sex with a boy is a homosexual.
NeedPolyGF ago
Pedophiles mostly have sex with girls and are heterosexual.
ich1baN ago
Girls are abused more but barely, while boys are actually sexually penetrated more than girls.... almost 2x the rate of girls:
Go to table 2: Out of a sample size of 1276 boys, 41.8% of them were sexually penetrated whereas only 22.9% of girls (out of a sample >2000).... A sample of >1000 is highly robust.
https://www.avoiceformen.com/misandry/boys-raped-more-often-than-girls/
Also 4 out of 5 abusers are hetero or pedophile, and 1 out of 5 are gay which means that gays are WELL over-represented by population type. Gays are estimated to be anywhere between 1-5% of the population so at best, they are 4x over-represented by population statistics and at worst 20x.