Light Yours

Now

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https://twitter.com/MCSeto/status/959882449340846080

Michael Seto @MCSeto https://twitter.com/MCSeto

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Seto

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mcseto

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-are-chronophilias-and-is-it-a-type-of-sexual-orientation

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7jlchk/we_are_three_experts_on_individuals_who_cause

https://troubled-desire.com/home.html

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Welp, my @ConversationCA piece on #chronophilias has taken off after being posted on @IFLScience's @facebook page last night https://t.co/iG7LHcqaPH

— Michael Seto (@MCSeto) February 3, 2018

11. You can find out more at my @ResearchGate https://t.co/BWNEXJU7tR or @LinkedIn https://t.co/dvPWCeKzex pages, or follow me at @MCSeto here

— Michael Seto (@MCSeto) February 3, 2018

12. More at this recent @reddit_AMA with my colleagues Maia Christopher @MakeSocietySafe & Karen Baker @NSVRC https://t.co/xJBhZ2zUTc

— Michael Seto (@MCSeto) February 3, 2018

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https://medium.com/@Alain_Manes6/pedophilia-or-paedophilia-is-sexual-attraction-to-prepubescent-children-eedfb0ed02d4

https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia/explaining-the-pedophilic-disorder-in-dsm-5-fcd17659889

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https://www.salon.com/2018/02/04/how-to-prevent-child-sexual-abuse-know-the-myths-and-realities

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/zmwn43/social-media-sites-cant-decide-how-to-handle-non-offending-pedophiles

https://medium.com/@rzadek/the-anatomy-of-a-modern-day-witch-hunt-cad97c9143fd



https://medium.com/@CraigHarper19/lets-talk-about-sex-dolls-50f9be2e6198

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If you are affected, by any of the issues, raised, here ...

MAPs - you are not alone - very much, not alone ...

http://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk - stopitnow.org.uk - circles-uk.org.uk - http://www.virped.org - http://b4uact.org - https://www.stopso.org.uk - https://troubled-desire.com/home.html

http://preventell.se/?lang=en - http://www.nemup.de/index_eng.html - https://1in6.org - www.boychat.org - www.annabelleigh.net

http://www.thepreventionproject.org - https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org - https://medium.com/@TNF_13 - https://medium.com/@enderphile - https://medium.com/@DaywalkerVirPed - https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia

https://www.samaritans.org

Tor versions, available, for most downlinks.

No, off-topic, comments here, please.

Thank you.

The OSC

We Can Never, Arrest Away, Primary, Human, Drives ...

Eternal Truths

 ... only, become wise, sensitive, understanding, civilised, and help prevent it, if we must ...

 ... and, certainly not, with the 'help', from a bunch, of the, mainly,
foolish and/or hateful and/or inept and/or socially inadequate.

 'Interested'

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Estimated 20,000 British men interested in sexually abusing children. Many more with broader sexual interests in young people. We *need* prevention services like those run by @SaferLF and @StopItNowUK - you can't arrest your way out of this problem https://t.co/IqfF9cdX8v

— Craig Harper (@CraigHarper19) December 29, 2017

I think you will find, a couple of 0s, have been left off the figure, if you avoid the emotive word 'abuse'. Nice that folk are, finally, accepting the truth.

— GhandisKongGood (@LutherKongGood1) December 29, 2017

Call a 17.999 a child, you have nearly all men, So it was, so it will always be.

— GhandisKongGood (@LutherKongGood1) December 29, 2017

https://t.co/EzuKwoOVpt pic.twitter.com/VJ0ikIEN5s

— GhandisKongGood (@LutherKongGood1) December 30, 2017

(Embedded Tweets - click dates)

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More to follow

The OSC

*****

If you are affected, by any of the issues, raised, here ...

MAPs - you are not alone - very much, not alone ...

http://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk - stopitnow.org.uk - circles-uk.org.uk - http://www.virped.org - http://b4uact.org - https://www.stopso.org.uk - http://saferlivingfoundation.org

http://preventell.se/?lang=en - http://www.nemup.de/index_eng.html - https://1in6.org - www.boychat.org - www.annabelleigh.net

http://www.thepreventionproject.org - https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org - https://medium.com/@TNF_13 - https://medium.com/@enderphile - https://medium.com/@DaywalkerVirPed - https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia

https://www.samaritans.org

Tor versions, available, for most downlinks.

Thank you.

The OSC 

Why Would You Not Be One?

Be One

*****

https://sheilavdhc.com/2017/01/24/on-being-a-pedo-ally

https://sheilavdhc.com/2017/01/30/why-im-supporting-part-of-the-most-hated-group-in-society

  

https://medium.com/@jmalcolm/should-pedophiles-be-allowed-on-twitter-1d88c355031a

Listen To The Good Doctor

https://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/listen-to-good-doctor.html

Again

https://medium.com/@CraigHarper19/anti-contact-paedophiles-being-on-twitter-might-be-a-problem-for-some-people-but-suspending-them-5b296f0d5e15

The OSC

*****

If you are affected, by any of the issues, raised, here ...

MAPs - you are not alone - very much, not alone ...

http://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk - stopitnow.org.uk - circles-uk.org.uk - http://www.virped.org - http://b4uact.org - https://www.stopso.org.uk 

http://preventell.se/?lang=en - http://www.nemup.de/index_eng.html - https://1in6.org - www.boychat.org - www.annabelleigh.net

http://www.thepreventionproject.org - https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org - https://medium.com/@TNF_13 - https://medium.com/@enderphile - https://medium.com/@DaywalkerVirPed - https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia

Tor versions, available, for most downlinks.

Thank you.

The OSC

Elizabeth Sheds Light

Published on Sep 12, 2017

TEDMED

"Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Elizabeth Letourneau has devoted her life's work to changing how people view child sexual abuse.

In her 2016 TEDMED Talk, Elizabeth sheds light on how initiatives targeting juvenile sex offenders can be the best method to help prevent future offenses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2iV3Gf0lVA

http://blog.tedmed.com/shouldnt-wait-child-sexual-abuse-occur-act-prevent

http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=620342

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Professor Elizabeth Letourneau

https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/2594/elizabeth-j-letourneau

https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/moore-center-for-the-prevention-of-child-sexual-abuse/about-us/welcome-letter.html

Elizabeth Letourneau @eletourn https://twitter.com/eletourn

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7wjA-3oAAAAJ&hl=en

Stupid Is, As Stupid Asks ... Jump On-Board The Populism Escalator

Always up, never down 

Take That

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It will not placate, nor satisfy the bloodlust of, the stupid, ignorant, fearful, hateful and those with vested interests ... only death is good enough, in nearly all cases, as we well know :(

For the record, many of the signatures were from MPs :(

The OSC

UnAbel To Be Objective - The Radicalist Survivor Myths, Disinformation And Lies

The Dangerous Lie ...  

Published: 13:36, Mon, December 8, 2014

As many as 11 million child sex abuse victims in 'national epidemic', expert [sic] warns

"A "NATIONAL epidemic" of child sex abuse in Britain has created as many as 11 million victims, an expert [sic] has warned."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/545004/Child-sex-abuse-11-million-victims-national-epidemic-Government-Theresa-May

Monday 8 December 2014 09.33 GMT

Child sex abuse a national health epidemic, government adviser warns

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/child-sex-abuse-national-health-epidemic-11-million-victims

08/12/2014 - 07:02:18

'Potentially about 11.7 million' sex abuse victims in the UK

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/potentially-about-117-million-sex-abuse-victims-in-the-uk-653765.html

Monday 08 December 2014

Sexual Abuse A 'National Health Epidemic'

"Statistics suggest as many as one in six boys under the age of 16, and one in four girls, have been sexually abused."

http://news.sky.com/story/1387613/sexual-abuse-a-national-health-epidemic

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Ian McFadyen @IanMcFadyen1966

https://twitter.com/IanMcFadyen1966/with_replies

http://somesecrets.info

http://somesecrets.info/statistics

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#IanMcFadyen - victim of Gene Abel's abuse of statistics.True median # of contacts/offender <5 http://t.co/2kNac6B4HW pic.twitter.com/Er4XO013MD
— Kamil Beylant (@Securityconcern) December 8, 2014

(Embedded Tweet - click date) 

Kristofor Xavier, 2012, minor updates K. Beylant 2014 with permission

Gene G. Abel's Statistical Crimes - a Persistent Blight on the Science of Sexuality

"The Mark of Abel – How psychiatric malpractice has made the non-offending pedophile a hypercriminal."

http://pastebin.com/tB4QHzYn

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@Securityconcern This one is easy, 'sexual abuse' causes harm, in the small minority of cases. and is not the antecedent/cause of the ...
— The OSC (@OSC______P) December 8, 2014

@Securityconcern majority of that harm - same old myths.
— The OSC (@OSC______P) December 8, 2014

(Embedded Tweet - click date)

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More to follow.

So, You See, There Is No Causal Connection - It Is Later Social Conditioning - Thank You

Age of Consent

"Psychologist Jesse Bering on What the Law Says Versus What the Science Says

A 6-year-old child may subjectively experience little, if any, harm at the time of being molested by an adult, but that doesn't mean significant damage [sic] hasn't been done. As the child grows older, his or her interpretation of the experience on coming to understand what really [sic] happened may become increasingly traumatizing [sic]. One [poetic and simplistic] way to think about it is that the sexually abused child has essentially been implanted with a psychological time bomb that may or may not go off down the road. There's a marginal [sic] chance that it won't detonate at all, but if it does, it's often [sic] catastrophic [sic]. This can also be the case with teens (many of us have regrets about being taken advantage of when we were young and naive, sexually or otherwise [such is life]), but for a 16-year-old who has hormonally fueled desires that are just as intense as those of the adult he's having an encounter with, it's a very different can of emotional worms."

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/age-of-consent/Content?oid=17715319

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Jesse Bering

http://www.jessebering.com

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind

https://twitter.com/JesseBering 

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12 December 2017 

From Pederasty to Pedophilia: Sex Between Children or Youth and Adults in U.S. History

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12435/full

Rachel Hope Cleves 

rcleves@uvic.ca

https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/faculty/clevesrachel.php

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

Child Sexual Activity (CSAc; Minor - MSAc, is more correct), With A Minor-Attracted Person (MAP)

Friday, 16 August 2013

Media AVP again - Male & Female Paedophiles

Woman 'had an eight-month sexual relationship with son, 11, of family friend'

"A 35-year-old woman has been charged with 20 counts of rape and sodomy after she allegedly had an eight-month sexual relationship with an 11-year-old boy, it emerged today."

The media, (rightly or wrongly), describes anyone who sexually assaults or sexually abuses children under the age of consent as a paedophile. Ignoring the literal translation [literal, where, Richard?] - which we all [sic] know, relates to pre-pubescent children - I have no issues with this."

http://jerseyric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/media-avp-again-male-female-paedophiles.html

So, what do YOU mean by a 'paedophle', Richard? 

What do YOU have no issues with?

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"Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind."   Vashti Quiroz-Vega

So, Are The Alleged Symptoms Due To The Sexual 'Abuse' Or An Inherent 'Brain Dysfunction'? - Chicken Or Egg?

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume 22, Issue 6, 2013

The Cognitive Impact of Sexual Abuse and PTSD in Children: A Neuropsychological Study

"Received: 4 Dec 2011
Accepted: 12 Apr 2012
Published online: 07 Aug 2013

Sexual abuse [sic] is known to have an impact on both child and adult mental health [no, there appears to be some correlation, in a small minority of people], but the neuropsychological basis of this effect is still largely unknown.

This study compared neuropsychological test results from a group of 76 children, 13 of them sexual abuse [sic] victims with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, 26 victims of sexual abuse [sic] who showed no symptoms post-traumatic stress disorder, and 37 controls.

The groups were matched by age, sex, socioeconomic status, and educational level. Child sexual abuse [sic] was associated with reduced ability to inhibit automatic responses measured by the Stroop test regardless of post-traumatic stress disorder status.

These findings indicate possible attentional inhibition difficulties in child victims of sexual abuse [sic], which may help explain psychopathology associated with the experience."

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10538712.2013.811141#.UguhT6zQ41I

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23924174

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Amygdala Inhibition Deficit

Amygdala hijack

Amygdala

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The alternative view ...  

Can Abuse in Childhood Make You Crazy [sic]?

http://www.behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2013/06/04/can-abuse-in-childhood-make-you-crazy/

Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment & Neuroscience: A new paradigm for understanding severe mental distress

Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (Vol 12, No 3, September 2012)

http://www.behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Trauma-Dissociation-Attachment-and-Neuroscience-Dillo-Johnstone-Longden.pdf

This Deserves Longer Than We Can Give, Presently, Richard

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Media AVP (Anti Victim Prejudice) 4 - "Child Sex"

"The more you look at how the media reports on child abuse, the more you realise just how prejudicial [why prejudicial?] and "dumbing down" [well, if you will read The Sun] their reporting is.

"As well as calling child abuse images [sic] "Porn" [which most is, by formal definitions], children who are prostituted out to paedophiles [sic] "child prostitutes" and the devious activities [sic] of paedophiles [sic] as merely "having an affair", the other thing that really bugs me is the repetitive way that abuse is referred to a "child sex" "[yes, we agree ... we prefer the neutral and clearer term, Child Sexual Activity - CSAc; Minor Sexual Activity is even better, but the 'Minor' may be misinterpreted, just as ‘Abuse’ is, in Child Sexual Abuse - CSA]

http://jerseyric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/media-avp-anti-vivtim-prejudice-4-child.html 

Comment:

We will return to this, later, Richard.

The OSC 

When An Irrational Fear Can Become An Accusation

Agraphobia - The abnormal fear of sexual abuse

"Sufferers of agraphobia may have had an experience linking emotional trauma with sexual abuse. Such experiences do not have to happen to the sufferer: watching sexual abuse occur (even in movies or on television) can act as a trigger to the condition. The body then develops a fear of the experience occurring again as a way of 'ensuring' that the event does not occur."

http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/agraphobia-abnormal-fear-of-sexual-abuse.html#.UaNRpdhaTQM

Agraphobia

http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/library/agraphobia/

Contreltophobia?

http://common-phobias.com/Contrelto/phobia.htm

Contreltophobia: Fear of Sexual Abuse

http://www.phobiafears.com/phobia/contreltophobia-fear-of-sexual-abuse/

Truth Always Outs

Male Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships

"Introduction

The primary focus of this study is an historical, theoretical, and contemporary analysis of male age-discrepant and intergenerational sexualities and relationships (MADIS). This involves examining socio-sexual experiences (outside the family) between adult males and boys (under thirteen) or youthsl (thirteen-seventeen)/ along with a detailed exploration of the identities of males who are predominantly attracted to boys and youths, and younger males who are attracted to adult males.

There will also be a substantial focus on intergenerational relationships between adult males. A major impetus for this study arose from the high-profile public debates, expressed through political institutions, professional organisations and the media in the UK over paedophilia, child sexual abuse (CSA), sex offenders, the gay male age of consent, and sex education in schools. These issues have also had a significant impact across a range of academic disciplines, suggesting a widespread interest in the relationship between sexual behaviours, identities and age-categories. These debates also highlight contested perspectives over what constitutes "age - appropriate" sexual behaviours, and how far children and young peoples should be given access to sexual knowledge.

Consequently, the task for this study is to engage with contested sociological, CSA, and boylover (defined as adult males who would like to form socio-sexual relationships with boys and / or youths, and who use this term to define their sexual identity perspectives). This includes examining the different meanings each applies to age, sexuality and relationships, and the particular way each theorise the topic ..."

Glasgow Theses Service - University of Glasgow

http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2795/1/2004YuillPhdv1.pdf
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2795/2/2004Yuillphd2.pdf

4.1. The research of Richard Yuill

http://www.ipce.info/newsletters/e_26/meeting_08_4.htm

Male Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships

http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/yuill_sum.htm

Paedophilia thesis comes under fire

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/dec/02/research.children

Complainant Name: Dr Richard Yuill

"Clauses Noted: 1

Publication: Scottish Daily Mail

Complaint:

Dr Richard Yuill of Glasgow complained that an article inaccurately associated him with paedophilia and sexual offences. He emphasised that he had never been convicted, or dismissed from a teaching job, for any sexual offence.

Resolution:

The complaint was resolved when the newspaper published the following correction: "Further to our article published on 20 January headlined 'Scotland’s sex shame lecturer' we would like to make clear that, although Dr Richard Yuill was indeed struck off the General Teaching Council for Scotland for ‘inappropriate’ behaviour, the stated reason for his dismissal related to allegations of pupil drinking and drug taking and not for an alleged incident on a school swimming trip. Dr Yuill could not have been caught by any 'sex checks' regarding his previous conduct when he applied for a lecturing job, as we suggested.""

http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/?article=MzkxOA

Child sex researcher had ban on his record

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/child-sex-researcher-had-ban-on-his-record/192930.article

If no rules have been broken, perhaps the rulebook requires some attention? 

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/165893.article

Category:Yuill, Richard

http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Yuill,_Richard

Glasgow University Child Sex Predator finally gets caught by Police, is this the University of choice for Paedophiles [sic]?

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/most-dangerous-sexual-predator-in.html

Out Of The Mouths ...

Saturday 6 April 2013

Accused of child abuse: A family's story

"Julie and Keiron were adjusting to life with their new baby. She worked at home, he was soon to start a new job as a nanny. Then, one day, the police came to the door ...

'A Kafkaesque nightmare is beginning to unfold. I am being arrested' ... Keiron with Julie and Sam

Julie's story

It's a Tuesday like any other. Then, in the afternoon, there's a knock at the door. The dog starts barking and wakes our 12-week-old baby, Sam. My partner, Keiron, looks out of the upstairs window to see two women at the front door. We assume they are Jehovah's Witnesses and Keiron leans out, saying he can't come down. Then everything changes. The women are police. They work in child protection services. Keiron, Sam and I go downstairs to find out what's going on. They tell us to sit down and ask Keiron if he knows why they are here. He says no. Then they tell us an allegation about a sex offence made by a child at the nursery where he works."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/06/accused-of-child-abuse-police?INTCMP=SRCH

Useful Work, Once You Get Past The CPI Hogwash

Published on Oct 29, 2012

"Keith Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Portland State University.

Topic: What child sex offenders teach us about prevention.

Dr. Kaufman will discussed what motivates sex offenders, including their use of grooming and other predatory [how rude] strategies.

Introduced by Ian Elliott, Ph.D., Research Scholar, Justice Center for Research, Penn State."

PSU Child Sexual Abuse Conference: Keith Kaufman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKY7cbsgECk

October 2012

What Child Sex Offenders Can Teach Us About The Prevention of Child Sex Abuse

Keith L. Kaufman, Ph.D. Psychology Professor, Portland State University, Penn State Conference.

http://protectchildren.psu.edu/sites/default/files/csa-conf/Kaufman.pdf

October 2012

PSU Child Sexual Abuse Conference: Overview and Epidemiology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fViw7Uuxs&feature=youtu.be

Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview

http://protectchildren.psu.edu/sites/default/files/csa-conf/Finkelhor.pdf

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October 29–30, 2012

Penn State's Child Sexual Abuse Conference

Traumatic Impact, Prevention, and Intervention 

http://protectchildren.psu.edu/about-conference

Other Participants and Presentations

http://protectchildren.psu.edu

Thank Goodness For The Free Availability of 'CP' - Possibly?

Updated 11:24 a.m., Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Sources for data showing child sex abuse decline

"NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center say data from a half-dozen sources suggest child sex abuse cases have dramatically declined since the 1990s. Here are details on data from the report, written by UNH professors David Finkelhor and Lisa Jones and published in the center's October 2012 bulletin."

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Sources-for-data-showing-child-sex-abuse-decline-4073964.php

Child sex abuse cases dramatically decline in US, says report

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/1130/Child-sex-abuse-cases-dramatically-decline-in-US-says-report?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Flearning+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+Learning%29

Mark Solms Continues His Intellectual Journey - Well Done

Sunday 25 November 2012 18.00 GMT

As the Savile scandal shows, ignorance of paedophilia harms efforts to tackle [?] it

"News stories provoke panic but not informed debate. A new charity aims to change that

Gary Glitter was found guilty of abusing two young girls and jailed for three years in Vietnam.

As I write this article, I worry about what you will think of me. Saying anything remotely sympathetic about paedophilia is bound to invite grave suspicions. Even academic interest in the topic is cause for concern; why is he interested in that? The only acceptable attitude to paedophilia seems to be outright condemnation. All you need to know is that it is bad. Very bad.

The Jimmy Savile affair has sharpened attitudes. It has also shown how insidious and pervasive the sexual abuse of children is, and how brazen it can be [has it?]. Apparently child sexual abuse can occur under the noses of television producers, in front of cameras on national television, without anyone noticing. Or did they turn a blind eye? [or did it happen at all?] Sexual crimes against children seem to occur everywhere, even in places considered sanctuaries of family values: children's programmes, Top of the Pops, hospital wards, care homes, churches. It seems that no child is safe from the predatory reach of the paedophile [sic].

Public reaction is hardly surprising: perpetrators must be exposed, vilified, punished, removed from society; everything possible must be done to protect children from them. Those who tolerate them or fail to recognise them are also guilty; heads must roll.

Surely the best way to tackle so serious a scourge – like any other major public health scare – is to commission an expert study of it, so that we can design and implement safeguards based on the best scientific evidence. Yet, as I have said, anyone who takes this approach to paedophilia provokes suspicion. How can they be so objective and neutral and calm? Are they perhaps harbouring perverse tendencies themselves?"

"Monday will see the start of a brave experiment. To try to rectify the current situation a new charity, the Loudoun Trust, has been formed, bringing together specialist academics and practitioners. It will compile a database of reliable information on the causes, mechanisms and meanings of sexual crimes against children, and is committed to making this information accessible. Initiated by friends and associates of the legendary Observer editor, the late David Astor, and formally launched at the House of Lords, the trust believes that the public interest is best served by evidence-based information on this difficult subject."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/25/ignorance-harming-efforts-tackle-paedophilia

Mark Solms "is professor in neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a trustee of the Loudoun Trust."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/mark-solms 

28 October 2010 Registered

1138651 - THE LOUDOUN TRUST

"Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ABOUT PAEDO-SEXUAL OFFENDING (SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN)"

http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1138651&SubsidiaryNumber=0

Research, action and accountability on child abuse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/29/research-action-accountability-child-abuse

The Worst Crime Of All

Published on Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:00

Fr Brennan says his ordeal was the worst thing imaginable

"Fr Oliver Brennan on his return to Blackrock last Christmas for the switching on of the Christmas tree lights

FR Oliver Brennan, former parish priest at Blackrock, has said the support he got from family and friends kept him sane during the two-year ordeal he suffered when he was falsely accused of child abuse.

Fr Brennan was speaking on the Marian Finucane programme on RTE Radio One last Saturday.

“It was the worst thing in the world,” he said, “to be accused of the worst crime of all [really? ... but, we understand your point.]”

http://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/local/fr-brennan-says-his-ordeal-was-the-worst-thing-imaginable-1-4501882

Legitimate Paedophilia - It's That Man Again

1 hour ago

Have Cartoons Legitimised Paedophilia in Japan?

"Last month I went to the London Comic Con convention at the Excel centre. If you're not familiar with the concept of Comic Con, then you haven't been reading VICE for the last year or so and you probably don't know what Leonardo Di Caprio or techno music are either, so the whole thing might be a bit lost on you. But, to give you a quick run-through, they're essentially a series of events in cities around the world where people who are into fantasy, video games and basically anything Japanese gather together to dress up as their favourite fictional characters and wear calculator watches from the 90s so they can add up all the new friends they're making."

“It’s important to remember that sexually abusive behaviour [weasel term] can be pretty addictive and habitual," says Jon Brown at the NSPCC. "A basic sexual drive in humans is very hard-wired – it’s very deep in the human brain, along with the desire to eat and seek shelter. When that kind of sexual interest becomes hard-wired to an interest in children, it can be quite difficult to alter.

“Where there's a sexual interest in children, offenders generally know it’s wrong [moral issue, no law, no issue] and have to go through a series of cognitive distortions and mental gymnastics to convince themselves, one way or another, that what they’re doing isn’t so harmful [perhaps, because it rarely is, Jon, evidentially? Who really has the cognitive distortions etc, Jon?]. One way that they'll do that is to use child abuse imagery online, thinking they’re not actually abusing a child, they’re just looking at it – either an animated image or a picture. And, of course, they’re correct [damn right, correct], but our concern at the NSPCC is that it’s the perpetuation of that belief system [the what? read what you said, above] that's damaging for the offenders themselves [bless you]. It can further reinforce their thoughts of sexual interest in children [how?]. It’s not actively abusing a child [damn right], but it perpetuates that kind of mindset [the what? read what you said, above] and the thinking in some way that the behaviour is OK [moral issue, no law, no issue].

“If there's a whole society or community that is implicitly saying that the viewing of sexualised images of children – or worse than that; of children being sexually harmed [straw man Jon ... naughty, naughty] – is in some way OK, then that becomes a pretty strong message. For some people, that's going to seem like the encouragement they need to go further and actually physically abuse children. [always happened, always will, Jon - sexual libertines do not need your 'OK' (or ours) and you said why, above]"

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/have-cartoons-legitimised-paedophilia-in-japan

Huffington Post - Sometime Daemon, Sometime Angel

Posted: 21/11/2012 00:00

Abusing Trust With Dodgy Child Abuse Statistics

"As Fox had warned against they opted "to treat rumour as fact". Not unlike those other investigations not worthy of the name: notorious social services departments pursued imagined and (as it turned out) imaginary episodes of child abuse in the 1980s. Children were taken from their families on the grounds of scarily-wacky social work theories about Satanic Abuse or, as Fox puts it, because of the ridiculous conviction that 'all victims must be believed'."

"By massively overstating the problem of child abuse they are already undermining our relationships with each other and with the institutions in which we might once have invested our trust. The irony being that the likely consequence of the anxieties promoted by those fuelling the Savile affair is a less safe environment for all of our children. One in which adults (and children alike) are less likely to seek the help of strangers; and are far less minded to intervene if they see a child in distress or danger, for fear of being suspected of something untoward. Such is the legacy of child abuse hysteria."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dave-clements/child-abuse-dodgy-statistics_b_2145281.html?