Can’t Condemn People Of An Earlier Era By The Standards Of Ours

Last updated at 12:01AM, September 7 2013

Dawkins under attack for his lenient view of ‘mild’ sex abuse

"Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, has prompted outrage among child protection experts [sic] by suggesting that recent child sex abuse scandals have been overblown.

He said that he could not condemn the “mild paedophilia” [sic] he experienced at boarding school. “I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours,” he says in an interview published today in The Times Magazine."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3863140.ece

Dawkins under attack for his lenient view of ‘mild’ sex abuse | The Times

http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/9/7/dawkins-under-attack-for-his-lenient-view-of-mild-sex-abuse-the-times#

Richard Dawkins on His Life and Childhood | The Times

http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/9/8/richard-dawkins-on-his-life-and-childhood-the-times#

Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophilia,” says it does not cause “lasting harm”

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm

Richard Dawkins doesn’t get to define sex abuse

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/11/richard_dawkins_doesnt_get_to_define_sex_abuse

"Mild" Paedophilia?

http://jerseyric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mild-paedophilia.html

Child Abuse: a misunderstanding

http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2013/9/11/child-abuse-a-misunderstanding#

Can Pedophilia Ever Be "Mild"?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201309/can-pedophilia-ever-be-mild