The article continues to complain...equating suppression or corrective techniques to correct pedophile behaviors as "equal to those (bad) attempts to try to change homosexuals" (paraphrased). They actually link themselves together like this hoping nobody will notice! I offer it's litte comments like these woven into their study too that is what got them censured in the first place...apparently their mission overrides their common sense:
"Treatment programs exist predicated upon the belief that such behavior is attributable to psychiatric disorder; that no one would choose to be a pedophile, for example (given the social execration and criminal sanctions associated with such behavior — note also that a similar argument has been made and accepted with regard to homosexuality to counter that individuals choose to be gay). Many states have now instituted civil commitment laws to address habitual sexual offenders, which ostensibly attributes offending behavior to a mental abnormality and an inability to control one's behavior, requiring treatment. Finally, several states permit chemical castration (administration of Depro Provera to reduce testosterone in the blood stream to prepubescent levels) as a means of reducing sex drive and, consequently, sex offending behavior."
It gets worse! Listen to the rationalizing of pedophile behaviors here!
Finally, newspaper reports of arrests of sex offenders, compared to other criminal offenses, often include the shocking revelation that the accused was an upstanding member of the community, respected teacher or coach, or respected business man, or even a nationally recognized sportscaster (Mel Albert), or judge (Judge Wachtler). The shock of family, friends and the general community to such arrests is invariably one of perplexity attesting to the lack of evidence of anti-social or amoral behavior anywhere else in their lifestyle. Finally, such behavior is consistent with other forms of sexual deviancy which are not necessarily criminal in nature, such as cross-dressing, sadomasochism, fetishism, etc
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THIS is your new APA folks. No wonder Congress censured them.
The overall study's conclusions are that sex abuse of kids should be decriminalized because it's just a natural compulsive sexuality and that anyway, if offenders weren't afraid of getting arrested, they'd more likely seek counseling. The logic is that then more kids would be spared being molested....except...
...remember, this is from the same outfit that says sexual deviant lifestyles are no longer on the DSM. They just equated pedophiles with gays. So the second any decriminalization happened, guess what? The APA would announce that you cannot "cure" someone from their "natural innate sexuality". And that would be that.
NAMBLA's arm in the LGBT cabal ALMOST got that one through..till Congress said "uh...yeah....NOT".
VVVVVVVVVVV There it SCOTUS. In black and white. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
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