A comment by @DirectDemocracy about a TED talk led to this post. You can read the whole thing here: https://voat.co/v/whatever/2657809/13483296

Excerpt:

Al Vernacchio made a TED talk called "Let's talk about sex — and pizza." He's a professional sex education teacher for pre-pubescent children only - except for this TED talk about pizza... It's a very strange talk, and I found it very strange how obsessed he is with pizza - not just metaphorically - but the symbolism of pizza, as you can see from the pictures I scraped from his personal Facebook profile. I copied them because I figured he would make his profile private after since his strange TED talk hit the conspiracy subreddit. However, I cannot find any evidence that he's been looked into - and I really think he should. He strikes me as a sicko. Why is he so obsessed with an official slang symbol for pedophilia?

These are most of the pictures from Al Vernacchio's photo albums from his Facebook profile: https://ibb.co/kd3Kfe https://ibb.co/eWxO6K https://ibb.co/fPRi6K https://ibb.co/cVy7Yz https://ibb.co/mOOkLe https://ibb.co/epuEDz

TED talk video: Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ...

Well, after subjecting myself to two-thirds of that garbage talk, I thought this 'guy' needs looking into. The talk is just too convenient in terms of rubbishing 'pizzagate'.

You will see in the above link my response to DirectDemocracy's comment, where we find that old 'Al' is a teacher at a top notch private feeder school to the elite universities. He's teaching and influencing high flyers' children in terms of their 'sex education'.

Of the 2009 graduating class, eight schools enrolled 30% of the senior class: The University of Pennsylvania (6), Muhlenberg College (4), Johns Hopkins (3), Haverford (3), Carnegie Mellon (3), Temple (3), Washington University in St. Louis (3), and Sarah Lawrence (3). Fourteen students enrolled at Ivy League institutions.

It appears that this gay 'sex educator' also believes that children need to be porn literate : This Quaker Sex Ed Teacher Says Your Kids Need to Be Porn-Literate

No wonder Vernacchio is gaining national attention. Pornhub, XVideos and Live-Jasmin are among the 50 most popular websites in the United States today, according to web analysis firm Alexa Internet. Here in Pennsylvania, in January, at the peak of the #MeToo movement, state House legislators unanimously passed a resolution recognizing pornography as a “public health crisis for young Pennsylvanians” and called for “education, prevention, research and policy change at the community and societal level.”

[Of course, don't deal with the big tech companies who are more or less allowing this increase in porn on their platforms, teach the kids about porn instead.]

In 20 years at Friends’ Central, Vernacchio has become well known and highly regarded at the progressive, creative-minded private school. Laurie Novo, who’s worked at Friends’ Central (including as co-principal) for 25 years, says she’s never heard a single parent complain about Vernacchio’s classes.

For such a wide-ranging curriculum to work, Vernacchio says, it must start young: A successful, holistic sex education reaches from elementary school to graduation. He talks to fourth-graders about puberty, to fifth-graders about romantic crushes, and with preschoolers about issues like fairness and gender. He starts integrating porn literacy in ninth grade during talks about body image, gender roles and physiology.

VERNACCHIO OPENS HIS CLASS in April with a quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

[Wilde: Another gay dude whose ideas about sex were shaped by the times he lived in and the troubles he experienced. Pity Al couldn't find a quote equating sex with higher human emotions like love instead.]

Well, what else do we know about Friends Central School in Philadelphia, apart from its proximity to the US Mint and the banking community?

http://afriendlyletter.com/update-friends-central-school-fires-teachers-invited-palestinian-speaker-invites-back/

Earlier this year I posted about a controversy at Friends Central School in Philadelphia, where a Palestinian Quaker, Sa’ed Atshan, was invited to visit and speak, then abruptly disinvited & the two teachers who invited him, Ariel Eure and Layla Helwa,  were suspended.  

The school set up a task force to consider how to handle issues around invitations to speakers. This task force has recommended  that a nearby university Dialogue Institute be “invited to work with students and teachers to promote ‘intrareligious, interreligious, and intercultural dialogue.’”

Hmmmm.... Dialogue Institute http://dialogueinstitute.org/

Address: Temple University (062-56) / 1700 N. Broad Street, Suite 315 / Philadelphia, PA 19121-0843

Voat post: Disgusting! Cambridge Conference Said that Pedophilia Interest is "Natural and Normal for Males"

"But perhaps the most controversial presentation of all was by Philip Tromovitch, a professor at Doshisha University in Japan, who stated in a presentation on the “prevalence of paedophilia” that the “majority of men are probably paedophiles and hebephiles” and that “paedophilic interest is normal and natural in human males”."

Dr. Philip Tromovitch’s name pops up in this 1999 New York Times article. He is a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA grad who coauthored a journal article advocating – you guessed it: trivializes the impact of child sexual abuse and condones pedophilia.

The journal article was written by Dr. Bruce Rind, an adjunct faculty member in the psychology department at Temple University, Dr. Robert Bauserman, an evaluation specialist working on AIDS prevention at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Philip Tromovitch, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. The article, a statistical reanalysis of 59 studies of college students who said they were sexually abused in childhood, concluded that the effects of such abuse ''were neither pervasive nor typically intense, and that men reacted much less negatively than women.''

The researchers also questioned the practice, common in many studies, of lumping all types of sexual abuse together. They argued that treating all forms of sexual abuse equally presents problems that, the researchers wrote, ''are perhaps most apparent when contrasting cases such as the repeated rape of a 5-year-old girl by her father and the willing sexual involvement of a mature 15-year-old adolescent boy with an unrelated adult.''

In the first case, serious harm may result, Dr. Rind and his colleagues maintained, but the second case ''may represent only a violation of social norms with no implication for personal harm.'' The authors also suggested that the term ''adult-adolescent sex'' or ''adult-child sex'' be substituted, in some cases, for ''child sexual abuse.''

Remember the recent post on the controversy in France over the rape case of an 11 year old leading to changes in the law on child rape which many child protection agencies are unhappy with? Don't think they aren't preparing to do that in the US. Who else is associated with the University of Pennsylvania? Oh well, maybe it's just a cultural thing.

Edit: ISN’T THIS JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT OF SOME KIND?

If I’m not mistaken, Temple University is the place where Leonard Swidler, who crafted the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, teaches. Swidler is the creater of the Global Dialogue Institute, which is or was listed among the organizations belonging to Lucis Trust, according to the Lucis Trust website New Group of World Servers.