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Normalizing Pedophilia
After studying the trend toward corrupting our children with transgender propaganda, I didn’t think there was a way to intensify my outrage about the distortions of gender and sexuality in this country.
I was wrong.
We have a queer (his own label) human being, Allyn Walker, who is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University, who has decided to reduce the incriminations against people who “like children,” but have shown restraint in their own behavior. He is proposing that pedophiles not be labeled so negatively, and that the term, “minor attracting persons” (MAPS) be used instead:
Walker is the author of the book ‘A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,’ which challenges ‘widespread assumptions that persons who are preferentially attracted to minors—often referred to as ‘pedophiles’—are necessarily also predators and sex offenders, this book takes readers into the lives of non-offending minor-attracted persons (MAPs).’
I find this effort unconscionable. And yet in these days where every norm is subject to distortions, condemnation, and irreverence, we shouldn’t be surprised. Our world of right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral has been turned upside down, and too many people now believe that any people who are “oppressed” are entitled to special treatment.
But they are not.
Spencer Lindquist who wrote the linked article in the Federalist made this powerful point:
Yet again we witness an instance of the left siding with the oppressor while pretending to advocate for the victim, this time under the guise of academic inquiry. One has to wonder if Walker has ever considered that our sympathies should lie not with pedophiles who don’t appreciate being called what they are but instead with their victims. Walker’s book intends to help pedophiles pursue dignity. How does a child robbed of his or her innocence pursue his or her sense of dignity?
The magnitude of the problem is not well understood. In addition, the long-term effects on children are staggering. And then there are the international organizations that have been openly supporting child sexual abuse.
There has been a petition posted, protesting this professor’s actions and calling for him to be fired. Given the times, I’m not hopeful for dismissal; to date, 1,500 people have signed.
Old Dominion University released the following statement regarding Walker:
An academic community plays a valuable role in the quest for knowledge. A vital part of this is being willing to consider scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives. Following a recent interview that gained national attention, Dr. Allyn Walker has released the following statement.
‘I want to be clear: child sexual abuse is an inexcusable crime. As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims. I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that, previously, has not been studied in order to identify ways to protect children.’
Following recent social media activity and direct outreach to the institution, it is important to share that Old Dominion, as a caring and inclusive community, does not endorse or promote crimes against children or any form of criminal activity.
I expect that everyone will be reassured by the ODU statement.
The ongoing efforts to ruin the lives of our children are exhausting, and I see no end in sight. The effort to normalize pedophilia in any way is repugnant. We can only hope that someday, some time, wisdom prevails.
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I think it’s in the interview linked. I think she had earlier identified as lesbian.
I agree with your opinion on homosexuality, too, so maybe we’re both outliers. For any who think they disagree, I’d suggest you read Hank’s comment carefully for you attack.
You know, I’ve always found Camille Paglia to be an interesting, entertaining, and provocative person. Having said that, I also think she’s a nut, and sometimes preposterous and over the top.
She’s expressed more support for pedophilia than I think any sensible person should (though she’s walked some of it back). She describes herself as transsexual, by which I gather she means that she has always experienced gender dysphoria, never considering herself female or wholly female. She doesn’t think she’s a man, doesn’t refer to herself with peculiar pronouns, and hasn’t, to the best of my knowledge, pursued any kind of sexual modifications. She’s been critical of the broad trans movement, apparently believing (as I believe) that it’s a farce and a fad.
Her writing is (my opinion) sometimes delightful, sometimes absurd, and often pretentious.
I like her, but I stopped taking her very seriously a long time ago.
Yup. Different level of wrong, but still wrong.
Again, yes. There are long-term studies that support a strong genetic/endocrinological linkage between in utero testosterone exposure and adult homosexuality.
Apples. Oranges. Is this really the right metaphor to pursue?
The population isn’t that big. And all the ones I’ve known have similar experiences.
Since he’s been mentioned, Milo’s experience was pederasty grooming – the entire essence of NAMBLA.
You don’t want to link them, but homosexuality has a very strong connection to pedophilia and pederasty (even if not all homosexuals are like that).
I like Paglia as well, but haven’t heard anything in 15 years or so. War on Boys ( Ch Summers?) or something similar if that’s not her. So, maybe past the sell-by date. I dunno. Hope she hasn’t gone down some disappointing rabbit warren.
Bananas all the way down.
LOLing out loud. Yes, fruit might have been a poor metaphorical choice. My bad. ;)
Incidentally, here’s an interesting factoid: it seems that, while homosexuality is present in other mammalian species as well, it is only in humans and sheep that exclusively homosexual behavior is encountered. In other mammals, homosexuality is expressed in the context of bisexual behavior, which is apparently pretty common in lots of species.
I will add, simply because I believe it’s true and interesting, that bisexual behavior is far more common in human females than in human males, including in a significant percentage of human females who identify as heterosexual. In fact, it’s a little bit amusing (to me, at least) how many human females in apparently monogamous same-sex relationships nonetheless self-identify as primarily heterosexual.
If it’s normal, then it’s not a disorder.
And even so, what are the studies showing that pedophilia is correlated with maternal hormone levels? If anyone is going to talk science, where’s the science?
I hardly think using the animal kingdom where some animals may just get randy with anything if their senses are broken in some attempt to complete his biological imperative to successfully procreate, you don’t have that issue with human men.
Are you saying that there’s not a significant number of human men who will happily have sex with either men or women?
There are a lot of differences between human and animal sexuality. I’m not at all confident that this is one of them.
They can’t even connect Hyperemesis gravidarum to hormones in pregnancy.
I’m saying the animal kingdom is not humans because humans have reasoning, values, and morals. Animals do not.
I’m not aware of any, though I admit I haven’t gone out looking.
But whether or not such studies exist, it wouldn’t change my sense of how we should deal with pedophilia. I believe that the attraction pedophiles feel is sincere; they aren’t faking a sexual interest in children. That interest should continue to be stigmatized, even if there’s a cruelty in that; acting on that interest should be harshly punished. I don’t see any safe and sensible alternative.
I certainly agree with that, and I wouldn’t try to use animals as an example in any discussion of morality. But sexual proclivity is a biological thing: both humans (which possess morality) and animals (which don’t) experience sexual drives. So it seems that there might be some room to consider common roots to sexuality in humans and other mammals.
(And, in fact, human sexuality and animal sexuality have a lot in common, evolutionary speaking. Hardly surprising.)
What’s wrong with liking feet?
Liking feet is okay.
Licking feet, not so much.
I think this line of thought is uniquely western and perversely introspective. Do we care if Ted Bundy couldn’t help feeling the way he did? Or that maybe he couldn’t control himself? Would we spend time splitting hairs by asking whether he should be condemned for merely wanting to strangle women? Who cares? The only legitimate inquiry along these lines would be for people who study abnormal psychology. In a normal world, it would be of no political interest. This is the kind of thinking that seeps into the mainstream and the law when a society has so much free time on its hand that it descends into navel gazing.
But “just born that way”works better when you are pretending you’re fighting for civil rights (example: see all the other letters in the LGBTQIAetc.)
Interesting article:
https://amp.9news.com.au/article/42a85591-d1b8-4914-a766-10de5e279b62
You know who’s always citing “scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives”?
Critics of evolutionary theory, global warming theory, Covid vaccines, and transgenderism, and also people who question the legitimacy of the election.
When they make thoughtful empirical arguments, you think they enjoy the support of their universities?
Podophile. What a difference a letter makes.
I don’t think the distinction matters where sex reserved for marriage is no longer the socially accepted norm.
“And the dog seems to like it.”
Attracted?
Tell that to the pedestrians.
Concur.
Similarly, there is lots of evidence of genetic link to addiction. That doesn’t make addiction OK. Having desires is no excuse for acting on them.