Posted on 11/20/2004 7:15:28 PM PST by Ptarmigan
In a society devoted to the public expression of sexuality what the hell do you expect of beings that have not even internalized self control? So called adults apparently cannot control their sexual impulses i.e. movies, television, advertising, magazines, newspapers, public officials, actors, etc. Eventually since there is no internal controls someone from the 'outside'will have to intervene.
You're really uptight.
Did you really think I was advocating veils??
Well said. Anyone who doesn't get it doesn't want to get it.
Of course, sexual interest is "innate". Without it, the human race would die out.
But there is such a thing as a latency period, generally agreed upon (even by Freud) to occur from the ages of 6 to 12. This is a time when sexual interest is at a minimum, and when kids can be kids.
When children in this age group start acting out in a sexually aggressive way, there is something terribly wrong.
The most common root cause is molestation by an adult or adolescent at home, or elsewhere in their environment.
The aggressive 6 year old in this report needs lots of help. What he did to the other little boy is by no stretch of the imagination "normal".
As a matter of clinical science, I don't know exactly what evidence exists of the latency period. My reference to Freud was only schematic in the sense that displays of childhood sexual behavior are not prima facie evidence of abuse or a degenerate culture but something that has long been seen to be innate by a number of observers. I'm not endorsing anyone's specific theories of psychosexual development - only pointing out the mere existence of such behavior isn't (by itself) evidence of abnormality even "unusual" cases such as this one. I'm not even suggesting that the boy here isn't troubled. I simply can't conclude that from the amount of evidence given.
There are some cities considered Sodom and Gomorrah. San Francisco would be Sodom. Gomorrah that could be any East or West Coast city.
The article itself points out that most of these children have been abused:
Lonique Pritchett with The Children's Assessment Center said, "Most of the time when children are touching other children, it's because they have been victims themselves and they're only acting out what has happened to them on their peers."
Pritchett has treated children as young as three years old. Almost half of the center's caseload is juvenile sex offenders, the majority of whom have been victims themselves.
Mark for ref
To be honest with you I'm not buying vague data from the "Children's Assement Center". How is "victimization" defined - is it any different from the militant feminist definition of "rape"?
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