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Doctors Call For Pedophilia Research (Step Towards Acceptibility??)
The Hartford Courant ^ | 23 Mar 02 | Garret Condon, Staff Writer

Posted on 03/23/2002 7:41:56 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The alcoholic used to be "the bum in the gutter" until society developed a more enlightened view of the disease. Dr. Fred Berlin, a major figure in research and treatment of sexual disorders, hopes that pedophilia will someday be viewed in much the same way as alcoholism - as a psychiatric illness, not simply as a moral failing.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pedophiles; pedophilia; psychology; sasu
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I find the first paragraph very disturbing. Are they really equating pedophiles with alcoholics? Seems as though they are somehow trying to make it acceptible by diminishing the act itself to a mere disorder.

Or am I just reading too much into it?

1 posted on 03/23/2002 7:41:56 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Hey Doctor, how about considering castration and a lobotomy as treatment and quit wasting time on "discussions" with the perverts.
2 posted on 03/23/2002 7:45:57 AM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: LoneGOPinCT
The alcoholic used to be "the bum in the gutter"

He's still a bum in the gutter. Renaming a bum an alcoholic changed no facts in the bum's life. It just caused gooshing liberal sentiment and my wallet got lighter.

3 posted on 03/23/2002 7:48:15 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: LoneGOPinCT
well, if they can get it to just a psychiatric 'disease' then maybe in 15 to 20 years there could be a movement to make it just an 'alternate lifestyle' -- just as homosexuality was a psychiatric disorder until the early 70s.
4 posted on 03/23/2002 7:48:33 AM PST by kpp_kpp
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Actually, I'd look at it the same way. This would also include homosexuality. One does not put an alcoholic in a bar and say: 'Drink up. Alcoholism is part of who you are. No one should criticise that-in fact, you should celebrate it!'.

It seems that they are acknowledging that paedophilia is a disorder that cannot be cured. About time, I say.

5 posted on 03/23/2002 7:49:49 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: LoneGOPinCT;*SASU
I don't think you're reading too much into it. These folks are dangerous.


6 posted on 03/23/2002 7:50:37 AM PST by Khepera
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To: Tench_Coxe
If it cannot be cured then it should get a life sentance.
7 posted on 03/23/2002 7:52:23 AM PST by Khepera
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To: LoneGOPinCT
sicko's
8 posted on 03/23/2002 7:53:36 AM PST by GeronL
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Dr. Fred Berlin, a major figure in research and treatment of sexual disorders, hopes that pedophilia will someday be viewed in much the same way as alcoholism - as a psychiatric illness, not simply as a moral failing.

It's good for business. Wait until it's classified under the ADA so that they can get Federal funding, affirmative action... That way they can put treating rapists at large on your insurance. The rapists prey on children. The Doctors treat the both the poor babies and their victims forever. The kids grow up to be rapists...

What a scam. This creep is the real danger to society.

9 posted on 03/23/2002 7:55:13 AM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: MeeknMing
Bump for BUMPS!
10 posted on 03/23/2002 7:55:24 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Perhaps. There is some support for your concern in this:

He said pedophilia and ephebophilia are distinct

Divide and conquer? There is a significant push in the UK to lower the legal age for sex with a minor.

I found this to be interesting:

Despite the claims of an earlier generation of therapists, neither pedophilia nor any of the other paraphilias are curable. "This is a chronic medical condition you can treat and contain," Kafka said. The degree of success is related to the degree to which a given patient is fixated on his sexual urge toward children, he said. Many pedophiles also have adult partners, and these people seem to do better with treatment. Kafka said patients who have never had normal social or sex lives are harder to treat.

How can Catholic bishops reassign a priest who has been caught looking at kiddie porn? This paragraph suggests pedo-priests would be especially difficult to reform.

11 posted on 03/23/2002 7:55:28 AM PST by kidd
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To: LoneGOPinCT
nwo/nbo bump
12 posted on 03/23/2002 7:56:56 AM PST by wafflehouse
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To: Khepera
I don't agree with that. I do, however, agree that if one of these predators moves into a neighborhood, that the residents of that neighborhood are entitled to know this.

Also, these predators should not be put in situations in which they have an opportunity to act upon their nature--such as Disneyworld, where I understand ( at least from an article here a couple of years ago ) they have been allowing paedophiles to work in the park.

13 posted on 03/23/2002 7:57:14 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: LoneGOPinCT
The study of impulses and motivations should always proceed, whether you like the anticipated results or not.
14 posted on 03/23/2002 7:58:46 AM PST by jlogajan
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Dr. Fred Berlin was helpful in getting a prominent Rabbi in south Florida who molested children only six and a half years in prison instead of the 60 years the prosecutors first wanted.

Dr. Fred Berlin, a psychiatric expert in sexual disorders, testified Levy's attraction to teenagers was a preoccupation he couldn't control. An obsessed Levy -- who spent up to five hours a night on the Internet -- knew what he was doing was wrong, but it was as if he had a gun to his head, said Berlin, founder of Johns Hopkins University's sexual disorder clinic, in Baltimore.

"This was a man who was struggling and losing the battle, and not someone who just didn't give a darn," Berlin said. "This was the culmination of a long history of being a sexually troubled, repressed and confused man."

Full Sun Sentinel article: Rabbi's Sex Offences


15 posted on 03/23/2002 7:59:11 AM PST by LarryLied
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To: jlogajan
The study of impulses and motivations should always proceed, whether you like the anticipated results or not.

'spose I don't disagree. Studies yes, legitimization no.

16 posted on 03/23/2002 8:00:46 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Perhaps they plan to cure pedophilia the same way they cured homosexuality. Just declare that it is a normal expression of human sexuality.

That way all of the stigma and negative feelings associated with it can be removed.

17 posted on 03/23/2002 8:01:00 AM PST by Calculus_of_Consent
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To: all
Leaving work now, I'll check back in when I get home.
18 posted on 03/23/2002 8:01:31 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT
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To: LoneGOPinCT
So according to this poor excuse for a doctor, every lawbreaker has a ligitimate alibi for his actions. Everything is a treatable illness. Maybe he ought to treat a few of the Taliban and see if he can come up with a better cure than our military! My life would not be worth living without my children or grandchildren so anyone who messes with them might find their own lives shortened or parts of their anatomy, whichever I can get to fastest!
19 posted on 03/23/2002 8:04:51 AM PST by Jaidyn
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To: LoneGOPinCT
Well I think any researcher should HAVE to have HIS children and Grandchildren participate in the study..(just to make sure it is valid you understand!!)

pssssss do you think they would still want to do the study???

20 posted on 03/23/2002 8:05:09 AM PST by RnMomof7
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