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Politics : Evolution
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To: average joe who wrote (32546)1/17/2013 3:04:29 PM
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Key highlights from the conference include these disturbing assertions (more disturbing excerpts available at the end of this article):

Pedophiles are "unfairly stigmatized and demonized" by society."The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational."There was concern about "vice-laden diagnostic criteria" and "cultural baggage of wrongfulness.""We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child's sexuality.""Children are not inherently unable to consent" to sex with an adult.An adult's desire to have sex with children is "normative."Our society should "maximize individual liberty. ... We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.""In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.""Anglo-American standard on age of consent is new [and 'Puritanical']. In Europe it was always set at 10 or 12. Ages of consent beyond that are relatively new and very strange, especially for boys. They've always been able to have sex at any age.""Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to criminalization and stigmatization."A consensus belief by both speakers and pedophiles in attendance was that, because it vilifies MAPs, pedophilia should be removed as a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the same manner homosexuality was removed in 1973.
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