OH! So you're saying that these "SCIENTISTS" believe; meaning that they are just POSTIVE that those whose sexual cravings are focused upon Little pre-pubescent kidlins... tricycle-motors and such... THOSE folks are sick in the head... but the folks who target adolescents... 'older kids...' They're not sick... and this is because those who focus their obsessions on the tots... that would preclude their means to reproduce.
What's unfortunate is that the manner in which you cavalierly abuse clinical definitions could arguably constitute exhibition of symptoms of some disorder itself included in the
DSM. Whilst referring to formal clinical definitions, it's necessary to refer back to
DSM-IV simply as a means of deriving
formal categorizations and definitions, not simply for the purpose of forming opinions. And according to
DSM-IV, pedophilia is a mental disorder and ephebophilia (or any variety of sexual attraction to adolescents), is not. Those aren't grounds for arguing that sexual
interactions with reproductive adolescents are morally acceptable, but grounds for asserting that such is not biologically unnatural or abnormal.
Which is WHOLLY distinct from the common homosexual, in light of the clear and incontestable reproductive viability of that freak fest...
ROFLMNAO... Sweet MOTHER... You truly ARE the gift that keeps on givin'...
Unfortunately, I expected that you would be stupid enough to bring this up, and you have affirmed my expectations. I never claimed that pedophilia could be ruled a disorder on the grounds of an inability to reproduce. Moreover, there is a strain of thought that argues that homosexuals' inability to reproduce could once have been a benefit for the species as a whole, if not the individual animals.
And yes.. one can't really expact a lay-person to grasp the heady concepts of 'sexual' and 'orientation' and when it comes to joining those two concepts ... that's CRAZY education right there...
I mean a person of my limited intellect would takes the definiton of sexual:
sex·u·al [sékshoo əl, séksh'l]
adj
of sex: relating to sex, sexuality, or the sexual organs
And the definition of orientation:
o·ri·en·ta·tion [àwree ən táysh'n]
n
positioning: the positioning of something, or the position or direction in which something lies
Pubicus, sexual orientation is typically understood as capable of being placed on a linear model that ranges from heterosexuality to bisexuality to homosexuality, with personal preferences or fetishes being derivatives of those orientations. Your claim, as I understand it, is that legislators, lawyers, or otherwise influential public officials, could claim that pedophilia is a valid "sexual orientation." Such is extremely unlikely, and only exposes your vast ignorance of the ideological biases of the American Congress. If you were familiar with the
Rind et al. controversy, for instance, during which the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a
resolution condemning the Rind meta-analysis and declaring that Congress
"vigorously opposes any public policy or legislative attempts to normalize adult-child sex or to lower the age of consent." There's absolutely no space in any legislator's agenda for open endorsement of pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation. It would utterly ruin a political career and likely adversely impact one's personal life also.
I find it difficult to believe that a degenerate imbecile such as the one I have the misfortune of quoting would possess the motor-cognitive functions that the ability to type necessitates. The law and psychiatric analysis are indeed clear in the distinctions between the two age groups that you mention in that sexual interactions with a 17 year old would be legal in the large majority of states in this country, whereas that would not be the case for a 13 year old (there might be separate ages of consent for heterosexuals and homosexuals, but this would likely be ruled unconstitutional), and that sexual attraction to a 17 year old would be either ephebophilia or standard heterosexuality/homosexuality, whereas sexual attraction to a 13 year old could possibly be one of those conditions, but could also be hebephilia or pedophilia. Of these conditions, only pedophilia is categorized as a mental disorder in
DSM-IV.
As for Newt Gingrich, his support of "ending adolescence" would indeed presumably end legal distinctions between current "adults" and "adolescents." How then would sexual matters be excluded from such a change in legal policy?
Ya see, Homosexuals who target your young'ns... they aren't suffering a mental disorder... that sort of 'classification' is reserved for the people who seek sexual gratification with babies, toddlers and those kids who've no conscious understanding of sexuality... but once they start growing pubic hair... they're FAIR GAME! 'Cause 'everyone knows' that you can't procreate with a toddler... so such an obsession just can't be explained as being anything worthy of 'normal'... in contrast to the homosexual who is dating... er... "Mentoring" your 13 year old son... who everyone KNOWS is as fertile as a cornfield; and as long as Chester promises to support the new family... what's the harm? RIGHT?
ROFLMNAO...
You can't make this crap up...
Actually, Pubicus, that's not what I said. Moreover, I have no idea how you could derive such a convoluted and incoherent interpretation except if plagued by mental deficiencies of the worst variety.