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No Long-Term Harm? The New Scientific Silence on Child-Adult Sex and the Age of Consent
Public Discourse ^ | September 18, 2017 | Mark Regnerus

Posted on 09/22/2017 11:24:12 AM PDT by fwdude

Almost twenty years ago, both houses of Congress and the American Psychological Association condemned Rind’s claims, published in the August 1998 issue of Psychological Bulletin, that the long-term damages caused by child sexual abuse are overestimated. I would have thought that nearly twenty years, a concurrent resolution of Congress, and a fair bit of social trauma would have convinced him to shift topics.

But I was wrong. His new studies are on the same theme: sex between adults and minors as young as thirteen. Rind is banking on a more amenable political and scholarly atmosphere in which to conclude comparable things. And from the sound of it—or rather, the utter lack of sound—he has gotten his wish. There has been no congressional concern, no APA scrutiny, just silence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; normalizepedophilia; pedophilia; psychology; sexoffenders
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To: heterosupremacist

I remember hearing the ideal situation was for older women to initiate boys into sex, and for older men to initiate girls into sex. Haven’t tried it out, yet.


21 posted on 09/22/2017 12:21:19 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: fwdude

Trust me, there are a bunch of pedophile “psychologists” involved in this, trying to rationalize and normalize their sick behavior.


22 posted on 09/22/2017 12:25:44 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: fwdude

Well, that’s certainly true.


23 posted on 09/22/2017 12:26:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: fwdude
Has anyone ever looked into Rind's background? I mean *really* looked?
24 posted on 09/22/2017 12:42:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Has anyone ever looked into Rind's background? I mean *really* looked?

I'm sure it is as tight as Hillary's e-mail files.

25 posted on 09/22/2017 12:45:27 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Williams

And many of the perverted people somehow reached Congress. Any congresscritter with a felony on record needs to be sent packing. I don’t care if it’s a DUI. Too Damn Bad! Get lost! We need to hold these congressional bums to a higher standard.


26 posted on 09/22/2017 12:56:28 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“What is extremely difficult to believe is that our society seems to be on the verge of accepting pedophilia as an orientation within the sex spectrum. This particular issue is where the ties to Kinsey’s research can be fully attested. In an article, Joan A. Nelson, Ed.D., writes in favor of a model of adult-child sexuality in which sex acts with children are to be viewed as acceptable and even essential to the healthy development of the child. “

This biotch needs to be rubbed out!


27 posted on 09/22/2017 12:58:44 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: fwdude

This story reminds me of that camel’s ass muhammad.


28 posted on 09/22/2017 12:59:43 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Tax-chick; fwdude
Or maybe not old enough --- or not physically able to talk.

You may remember the fairly recent case of Anna Stubblefield, a tenured Rutgers ethics professor (ethics!) who initiated a sexual relationship with a profoundly mentally and physically disabled man. She claimed she had learned through "facilitated communication" that he was in love with her and wanted to have sex. "Facilitated communication" meant she supported and guided his hand as "he" typed "his" thoughts on a keyboard.

When the disabled man;'s family finally took her to court, they proved to the satisfaction of the jury that she was in fact typing her own thoughts by moving his fingers, an the unfortunate man , incapable of the level of responses of even a preschool child, was being molested without being able to resist, or even comprehend what was happening.

Ethicist Stubblefield was found guilty of criminal molestation and put in prison. But here's the shocker: she is still writing and contributing to academic textbooks on the disabled, and still preaching(to at least some subset of approving peers in the ethic biz) that this was all wonderfully enriching to her diaper-clad, helpless victim.

29 posted on 09/22/2017 1:30:32 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts." - Sgt. Joe Friday)
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To: sparklite2

You heard where?


30 posted on 09/22/2017 1:31:31 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts." - Sgt. Joe Friday)
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To: sparklite2

I don’t remember. It’s been years. The idea may have originated in ancient Greece.


31 posted on 09/22/2017 1:34:38 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I don’t remember. It’s been years. The idea may have originated in ancient Greece.


32 posted on 09/22/2017 1:35:23 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I do remember, although I didn’t have that in mind when I typed my overly-optimistic post above.


33 posted on 09/22/2017 1:36:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: fwdude
People like Rind should be in prison for life.

No, they should be impaled on posts in the public square for all to see.

34 posted on 09/22/2017 1:37:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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35 posted on 09/22/2017 1:39:00 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Yaelle
so of course there will be gray areas like a 17 year old girl and her 19 year old boyfriend where no harm is really done.

And many states have provisions in the law to cover that sort of thing. I was a juror in a 'statutory rape' trial, and the whole age of consent business was explained in excruciating detail.

36 posted on 09/22/2017 1:41:25 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: sparklite2

Who did you hear that from, a bunch of pedophiles?


37 posted on 09/22/2017 1:42:36 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

Lets leave my family out of it.
;>)


38 posted on 09/22/2017 1:43:53 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

Your family name is “Post”?


39 posted on 09/22/2017 1:45:08 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: sparklite2

Scratch that ... I mistook what you replied to ...


40 posted on 09/22/2017 1:46:12 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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