Mainstream Book Advocating Adult-Child Sex Draws Howls of Protest.

Fox News ^ | 4/2/02

[marshmallow]

A book arguing that sex between a child and an adult can be a good thing is bringing an extraordinary amount of attention

[marshmallow]

Levine, a journalist and author who writes often about sex and gender, has no children of her own.

Which is why she feels so impeccably qualified to offer those of us who do have children, the benefit of her profound wisdom and experience.

[L.N. Smithee]

Levine, a journalist and author who writes often about sex and gender, has no children of her own.

Judging from her immoral point-of-view, I am sure that she borrows other people's children on occasion.

[abclily]

This author has the morals of an alley cat. When is the paganism going to subside in this country?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

"She cites the Dutch age-of-consent law as a "good model".

The monsters who advocate the legalization of child rape will not stop until their mission is accomplished. This book is only the beginning of the relentless, endless re-education of the sheeple. The child rapists will persist and persist until child rape becomes mainstream.

Forty years ago, the very idea of widespread tolerance, acceptance, and legal protection of and for adult homosexuality was absurd. Look where we are now.

America is doomed.

[BillaryBeGone]

it permits sex between an adult and a young person between 12 and 16 if the young person consents.

Yeah, that's what made it so much fun to watch 12- and 13-year-old girls having babies in Labor&Delivery - NOT!! There's no 12- to 16-year-old alive who's "aware" enough to make an informed, intelligent decision about having sex with an adult!!! This woman is either mad as a hatter or completely, utterly evil.

[Dumb_Ox]

Further reading: "Pedophilia Chic" Reconsidered

When is the paganism going to subside in this country?

Paganism was supplanted in Asia Minor(present-day Turkey) because, for one thing, Christians shunned abortive, contraceptive, and homosexual practices, while adopting the children condemned to exposure. History could repeat itself.

[my4kidsdad]

There was a prior thread with a link to the Univ of Minn Press website. If you feel compelled, go to the staff directory and send an email to the director.

[RLK]

"We've never seen anything quite this angry,"

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And you seem to wonder why?

Let me guess. You are going to hold yourself up as a dramatic victim in attempts to facilitate free expression.

[discipler]

Here is the e-mail address of the director at University of Minnesota Press:

[facedown]

...Levine, who had an affair with an adult when she was a minor.

Clue!!!!!!!

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

a sexual relationship between a priest and a youth "conceivably" could be positive

maybe for a horny old perverted priest it could be or any other demented adult who has been rejected by his/her peers

[LJLucido]

arguing that sex between a child and an adult can be a good thing

To be fair, the author would favor prosecuting any adult who provided the child with a cigaratte afterward.

[3catsanadog]

If the libs want kids to have the freedom to have safe, satisfying sex with whoever they choose, then when the same kids steal, rape, murder and deal drugs, we can consider them old enough to know right from wrong and try them on all crimes as adults.

[LadyDoc]

,Levine, a journalist and author who writes often about sex and gender, has no children of her own.

Chinese proverb: Expert on children (is) childless woman.

Actually, until a few years ago, this advice was routine, as was the idea that pedophiles should undergo counselling and not be jailed. Much of the Catholic bishop's problems is that they were naive and took the advice of psychologists like this. Indeed, I remember a Newsweek article that deplored the fact that fathers who sexually abused their daughters needed to be jailed: After all, if they went to jail they might be abused. Newsweek implied counselling was all that was needed, and praised that California was advanced enough not to jail such men, merely treat them (and other sexual predators) with short inpatient and prolonged outpatient treatment. This was in the mid 1980's, so it gives you an idea of what was going on then.

[moyden]

Every liberal is a pedophile.

[DonPaulJones]

PEDOPHILES DESERVE DEATH. PERIOD.

[Pining_4_TX]

Forty years ago, the very idea of widespread tolerance, acceptance, and legal protection of and for adult homosexuality was absurd. Look where we are now.

You are so right! Society is being conditioned to accept anything and everything. Just look at the title of the story -"mainstream book"! Just a few years ago, nobody who approved of pedophilia would have been called mainstream, regardless of their credentials. It's frightening that the book would be published at all. Sick, sick, sick.

[PetiteMericco]

I posted this exerpt in the Defining Deviancy Down thread, here it is again for anyone who missed it.

""After examining the sexual practices of more than 80 primitive and more advanced societies, [Professor J. D.] Unwin concluded that sexually permissive behavior led to less cultural energy, less creativity, less individualism, less mental development and less cultural progress in general. Primitive societies with the greatest sexual freedom had made the least cultural advances. Those with stricter limitations had made the greatest progress. Among civilized societies, the same rule held. Those with restrictive sexual codes had made the greatest cultural strides, and when more permissive sexual standards appeared, cultural decline set in. Unwin said there was no known instance of a society that retained as high a cultural level after relatively relaxed sexual standards replaced more rigorous ones (although he conceded that it might take several generations before the debilitating effect was clearly manifest).

"William Stephens, after studying 90 primitive cultures, wrote that the tribes lowest on the scale of cultural evolution have the most sexual freedom. Sigmund Freud, surprisingly to some, associated cultural advances with limitations on sexual activity. Arnold Toynbee, celebrated student of world civilizations, declared that a culture which postpones rather than stimulates sexual experience in the young is a culture most prone to progress. Will and Ariel Durant, after a lifetime of studying world history, wrote in The Lessons of History that it was imperative to maintain rigorous sexual restraint upon the young..."
--Exerpts are from an address delivered in the mid-1980s by Reo M. Christenson - Professor of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH

[Richard Kimball]

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