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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (539059)	2/12/2004 2:33:02 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Steve you can hardly classify a child molester as a normal heterosexual. And how would you classify Michael Jackson? An equal opportunity molester?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (539059)	2/12/2004 10:53:23 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

I'm no more sure of the statistics than you are, otherwise one of us would have at least posted something more than an anecdotal study. I do know that I see a lot of evidence in the news about our Catholic priests, a lot more than I see of men molesting their sons. A lot of homosexual molestation flies under the radar because it is against community standards or possibly consensual (to the point a minor can be considered able to consent). To be fair incestual incidents (heterosexual) fall into the same area making statistics pretty unreliable. I think from the behavior of homosexuals they are less reliable emotionally and less able to be trusted in the realm of sex. I think the high incidence of disease is pretty good evidence of this. I'm concerned that the field of Psychiatry is pushing their priesthood on this matter (actually I'm concerned about any group aspiring for priesthood). Washington, DC - The "Sexual Orientation" lobbyists are at it again. In mid-May, 2003, members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) met in San Francisco and listened to a psychiatrist argue for the declassification of pedophilia, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, and sadomasochism from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Dr. Charles Moser with San Francisco's Institute for the Advance Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) and Dr. Peggy Kleinplatz with the University of Ottawa, presented a paper entitled: "DSM-IV-TR and the Paraphilias: An Argument for Removal." (Moser's IASHS is a Kinsey-based sexologist training group that approves of homosexuality, pornography, sadomasochism, and other deviant sexual practices.) Moser and Kleinplatz argued that these various sexual interests are culturally or religiously forbidden-and thus should not be considered mental illnesses. They claimed that because psychiatry has no baseline to determine what is normal or abnormal behavior, these sexual behaviors should no longer be stigmatized. Over the past few years, the APA has done several flip flops on its position on pedophilia as a mental disorder. According to Linda Ames Nicolosi with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), the APA's DSM-III maintained that merely acting upon sexual urges against children is sufficient to earn a diagnosis of pedophilia. However, in the DSM-IV, the APA changed the definition. It claimed that only if a person experienced significant stress or social impairment, would his sexual attraction to children be considered pedophilia. In other words, if the person felt no remorse for molesting kids, he wasn't really a pedophile. Is this really how the APA wants to define what is and isn't a mental disorder? If a person doesn't feel bad about his behavior, then he's normal. Using this definition, one could say that a person who feels no emotional discomfort from having sex with dead people or animals is perfectly normal. Would APA psychiatrists argue that Jeffrey Dahmer was a normal person because he felt no remorse or social impairment for cannibalizing his sex victims? Has the psychiatric community gone insane? After bad publicity over this watered-down definition of pedophilia, the APA again flip flopped and issued a statement saying that pedophilia was morally wrong. The debate, however, continues within the APA with the Sexual Orientation lobbyists working feverishly to normalize what most rational humans would consider serious mental disorders and sexual dysfunctions. The leaders of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), the Christian Boy-Love Forum, Girl Love Garden, and Philia (all pedophile web sites) must be pleased with the debate going on within the APA. But will children? Back to News Archive