Delta4Embassy
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Good primer here:
ETAY: Understanding the Issue
"UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE
The following articles provide extensive information about invalid diagnosis and abusive treatment practices used with children and teenagers who violate sex laws, and why they are used.
* Introduction: When experts are wrong
* Casualties of the war on sexual abuse
* Diagnosis
o Lack of knowledge
o Confused definitions
o Criminalization of childhood sexuality
o Invalid instruments
* Treatment
o Humiliation as therapy
o Arousal reconditioning
o Dangerous drugs
o Striking comparisons with treatment for violent behavior
o Sample harmful treatment materials
o Conversations with treatment providers
* Ethical violations
* Prologue: Deja vu
...
"Summary
The following common beliefs are unsupported or contradicted by research:
*that there is a certain amount of sexual knowledge, behavior, and thoughts that normal children exhibit,
*that children who exceed this amount have been sexually abused and/or are psychologically disturbed,
*that normal children do not interact sexually with other children who differ in age or size,
*that indecent or socially inappropriate behavior is necessarily aggressive, abusive, and harmful,
*that without treatment, children who engage in indecent or socially inappropriate sexual behavior will grow up to be violent sex criminals.
The use of the language of violence to describe the behavior of children due solely to its sexual nature is a form of doublespeak that misleads one about the actual nature of these children and their acts, and encourages fear rather than understanding. The logical result is criminal prosecution.
..."
And this entire section is worth careful reading so not gonna even try to cull relevant excerpts, it's all relevant.
ETAY: Criminalization
ETAY: Understanding the Issue
"UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE
The following articles provide extensive information about invalid diagnosis and abusive treatment practices used with children and teenagers who violate sex laws, and why they are used.
* Introduction: When experts are wrong
* Casualties of the war on sexual abuse
* Diagnosis
o Lack of knowledge
o Confused definitions
o Criminalization of childhood sexuality
o Invalid instruments
* Treatment
o Humiliation as therapy
o Arousal reconditioning
o Dangerous drugs
o Striking comparisons with treatment for violent behavior
o Sample harmful treatment materials
o Conversations with treatment providers
* Ethical violations
* Prologue: Deja vu
...
"Summary
The following common beliefs are unsupported or contradicted by research:
*that there is a certain amount of sexual knowledge, behavior, and thoughts that normal children exhibit,
*that children who exceed this amount have been sexually abused and/or are psychologically disturbed,
*that normal children do not interact sexually with other children who differ in age or size,
*that indecent or socially inappropriate behavior is necessarily aggressive, abusive, and harmful,
*that without treatment, children who engage in indecent or socially inappropriate sexual behavior will grow up to be violent sex criminals.
The use of the language of violence to describe the behavior of children due solely to its sexual nature is a form of doublespeak that misleads one about the actual nature of these children and their acts, and encourages fear rather than understanding. The logical result is criminal prosecution.
..."
And this entire section is worth careful reading so not gonna even try to cull relevant excerpts, it's all relevant.
ETAY: Criminalization
