Posted on 07/30/2002 6:22:06 PM PDT by CalConservative
Normalization of Pedophilia Growing, Experts Say
By Steve Jordahl, correspondent
Americans are accepting a more liberal — and previously unthinkable — notion of sexuality. The next taboo to fall might be the sexual exploitation of children.
In what is described as a dangerous trend, Carson Holloway of the University of Nebraska believes the normalization of pedophilia is emerging as a topic of discussion among the academic elite.
"There is some evidence of some effort to normalize pedophilia — or sexual relations between adults and children — in certain literary circles and maybe certain realms of science and social commentary," Holloway said.
According to Holloway, pedophilia is the misguided natural extension of removing the moral component from human sexuality.
"The reason it's off limits to children, traditionally, is because they can't fully yet distinguish between what's proper and what's improper, or what's moral and what's immoral," Holloway said. "But, of course, they can distinguish between what's pleasant and what's not pleasant. So, if pleasure is the only thing at stake in sex, then why should it be off limits to children?"
Peter Sprigg, of the Family Research Council, said if the idea that a culture could accept pedophilia seems unthinkable, take a look at from where we've come.
"We've come to an acceptance of premarital sex that we never had before, and then we've come to an acceptance of homosexual sex that we've never had before, and the next, the next frontier of sexual liberation is pedophilia."
But simply passing more restrictive laws isn't the answer, according to Sprigg.
"We have to win people's hearts and minds first before we can get back to the point of enshrining those principles in law."
Sprigg said that society must be able to place obligations on behavior, even among consenting adults.
That's actually an instance of old-fashioned family values!
Yep, sounds about right. Just make sure the tar is good and hot.
That's right, another lifestyle choice that needs discrimination and civil rights protections. And after doing children becomes the norm, the next taboo to shatter will be bestiality.
I go with a clip of 9mm hollow-points, myself.
Another 10 years of unconsciously absorbing images from fashion magazines presenting 12 year old girls half-dressed with mascara smeared under their eyes and they will really believe it's "genetic." As it is, it's on every billboard, in every subway, in every clothing store in the mall.
Anybody touches my cats and their body will never be found. I'm talking Fried Green Tomatos here....
It can't be far behind and may already be prevalent in some parts of this world. About 20 years ago I remember it being said that pedophilia would be next, in about 20 years, and here we are. So somewhere near the year 2022...
Believe it. As something of a trendtracker on these types of issues, it is unbelievable to see the increase in "scientific" publications of papers and studies showing that children as young as 5 have the ability to make choices concerning their sexual activities, etc. etc. This is the exact same pattern that the homosexual agenda followed in their normalization of their perversions. I post these articles because I hope you will be aware and do whatever we can to avoid this happening the same way it happened with the homosexuals.
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