Activism paedophile

The activism paedophile gathers people having a sexual and emotional attraction towards the adolescent children and/or the (see Pédophilie, Pédérastie and éphébophilie (hébéphilie)). Its members aim at a certain social acceptance their attractions like, for some of them, of the sexual relationship between Adulte S and children. The movement militates for a removal of various legal and social obstacles against the linked activities with the pedophilia, like the laws criminalisant the sexual activities adult-child, the classification of the pedophilia as a Mental disease or negative perception that with the public opinion of this attraction. They also promote the use of terms like boylove , girllove or childlove to indicate certain forms of Pédophilie, Pédérastie or éphébophilie.

The movement is confronted with a virulent opposition. Although certain professionals propose not to more regard the pedophilia as mental disease, the great majority of the medical community remains opposite with the ideas of the movement according to which certain sexual contacts adult-children would not cause damage with the child. The majority of the countries of the world conform to the specifications of the the United Nations compared to the laws on the sexual Majorité or the childish Pornographie.

In 2005, the movement was especially present in the sphere Anglo-Saxon in Occident. In these countries, the negative public opinion about the movement was in particular constituted compared to certain legal affairs implying some of its members. Elsewhere, for example in France, the movement remained very confidential and far from known general public.

Origins of the movement

Activism paedophile, born with the Netherlands with Fried work of Bernard, especially developed in the western world in the Années 1970 and at the beginning of the Années 1980. In the Netherlands with Fried work of Bernard, Theo Sandfort, Edward Brongersma or Frans Gieles and associations MARTIJN or NVSH; in France behind Tony Duvert and Gabriel Matzneff; with the Denmark with the DPA; in Germany; with the the United Kingdom with the Paedophile Information Exchange and finally with the the United States with NAMBLA.

So of new groups have been created for this time (Krumme 13, NVD, IPCE), the tendency is since then with a loss of audience of these movements related to an increasingly strong rejection on behalf of the companies and even of their former defenders (thus, associations pederasts and homopédophiles were excluded from ILGA in 1994).

Militants of Childlove

Many activists of the movement, inter alia Tom O' Carroll, Frans Gieles or Lindsay Ashford, militate actively against the idea that the children do not have the capacity to grant a sexual relationship - idea however largely shared by a vast majority of people, cultures, professionals of childhood and legal authorities throughout the world. These activists reject the design of the Pédophilie like mental disease - design largely shared in the Anglo-Saxon world but however more moderate in other areas like the France (see the article Pédophilie). They think that this design is a political operation to stigmatize a Sexual orientation considered to be unacceptable.

The activists amongst other things quote Moser and Kleinplatz (2003), which suggest withdrawing all off the Paraphilie S of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM), work listing the mental diseases and which makes authority in the USA as regards psychiatry. These authors write that it is too difficult, even impossible, to find objective criteria without any cultural skew to classify such or such sexual behavior like abnormal. They note for example that in certain countries the naked centres are accepted on the beaches whereas in others, they concern the exhibitionism. However, in the only section of the article concerning the pedophilia, they specify that “our suggestion to withdraw the paraphilies, including the pedophilia, of the DSM does not mean that the sex acts with the children are not criminal… Any interpretation of our work as supporting the sexual relationships adult-child would be false and badly disposed. ”

Terminologies preached by the movement

The members of the movement childlove denounce the stigmatization of terms like paedophile or pederast which contains, at least near the general public in 2005, a strong negative connotation related to the disease (Fagan, 2002), with the exploitation, perversion and the crime. They promote the terms of childlover , boylover and girllover to replace them. These terms were recently popularized near the paedophiles themselves through the virtual communities related to the forums childlove on Internet. Lindsay Ashford in Human Face off Pedophilia ( the human face of the pedophilia ) written:

“Much of people has problems with the word Pédophilie since its direction was deformed so much by the company and the media. It extended to take the direction and the connotation of a bad person and voyeurist who prevails in the public parks. The majority among us have simply any resemblance nor no report/ratio to this Stéréotype, consequently of what we chose to adopt a terminology which describes better what we are. ”

Ashford says that the childlove is “an emotional and spiritual attraction towards the young children who transcends a simple physical or sexual attraction. ”

In fact, there exists a certain ambiguity in the term of paedophile , which does not make distinction between those which are attracted by the children and those which pass to the sex act induced by this attraction. For example, in an article entitled Special Problems with Sexual Deceives Boxes ( specific Problèmes related to the sexual abuse ), Underwager and Wakefield writes:

Although the terms are often used in an interchangeable way, a distinction must be made between “sexual attacker of nonpubescent child” and “paedophile.” First refers to a criminal or punishable sexual behavior, and the second with a abnormal sexual preference. Many paedophiles never act according to their impulses. Contrary all the sexual attackers children are not paedophiles. Any treatment or appraises psychological professional should know this distinction.”

Although they preach the distinction between desire and action, Underwager and Wakefield deplore the made use of their work by the movement childlove. They in addition developed a very complete theory explaining why all the sexual contacts adult-child are detrimental, that there exists or not a relation of authority or even of the feelings in love as described by the activists with the movement.

Lastly, within the movement the general term of childlover , which can result literally in in love with the child , is disputed per many hébephiles and pederasts since they are attracted only by the teenagers. They prefer to him the separate use of the narrower terms boylover and girllover which does not induce an age in particular.

Objectives of the movement

Although a very great number of sometimes opposite opinions are represented within the movement, a majority of the members agree on the following objectives:

To change the perception of the public on the Pedophilia, the Pederasty and the éphébophilie;
To pose a difference between the childlove and the sexual abuse;
To promote the de-penalization of the certain shapes of erotic expression implying of the children or teenagers (texts, drawings, photographs, etc);
To promote an abolition or a revision of the legal concept of sexual Majority;
To increase knowledge on the effects of the sexual activity in the children, by supporting research in the field;
To support the movements and organizations which fight for the Droits of the Child.

Those which promote the legalization of the sexual contacts with the children affirm that the inequality of such a relation is not necessarily negative. In Pedophilia: The Radical Puts ( Pédophilie: the radical question ), Tom O' Carroll written:

“the difference of size and being able between a relative and a child creates a potential abuse. But if one bases oneself on the fact that the relations parent-child are generally positive, we admit that the inequality is simply in the nature of the things. I see the relations paedophiles under a similar lighting. ”

Certain paedophiles also say that the sex is not the raison d'être of the relations of the childlove type. Edward Brongersma, in Servant boy-Lovers and Their Influences one Servant boys ( the Servant boy-Lovers and their influence on the boys ), where it brings back the result of interviews of engaged people in relations adult-children, written: “In a relation, the sex is generally a secondary element. ”

Whereas the company thinks in general that the children cannot grant sexual relationships, Ben Spiecker and Jan Steutel, in an article entitled Pedophilia, Sexual Desire and Perversity ( Pédophilie, sexual desire and perversity ), writes that the assent is possible, including in children prépubères. (However, they also conclude that “the sex paedophile is a form of exploitation since it endangers the health of the child on a long run. Consequently, the pedophilia implies desires for behaviors which are morally bad, but these desires are perverse only in certain forms of pedophilia. ”)

Moreover, the childlovers affirm that the sexual contacts with adults are not necessarily dangerous for the children. They quote very criticized méta-analyzes Rind '' and Al '' (1998) and other work to found their assertions. In one of these studies, Intergenerational Sexual Contact: With Model Continuum off Participating and Experiments ( intergénérationelles Sexual relationships: a continuous model of participants and experiments ), Joan Nelson written:

“Of the clinical samples reveals the existence of sex intergénérationel without damage. Of Young (1982) reports that 20% of the studied “victims” were shown “virtually indifferent to their aggression! ” Instead of what, they tended to be traumatized by the reaction of the adults following the discovery of the relation. ”

In addition, the childlovers want to contradict a prejudice as what the sex with children would lead obligatorily to vaginal or anal sex acts, by specifying that they do not support to inflict physical pain with the participants. Accordingly, they usually do not recommend acts of penetration on young children. In 1981, in a lampoon entitled Pedophilia , association Dutch Protestant Foundation for a Responsible Family Development ( Protestant Dutch Foundation for Responsible Family Development ) written: “Especially in the case of young children, the sexual activity could not include any forms penetration. The children are not sufficiently developed physically for that. ”

Many childlovers asserts that the child has an innate sexuality since his premium-childhood. They refer in the searches of several researchers, like Alfred Kinsey, Floyd Martinson, Alayne Yates or William Masters, which shows examples of sexual answers, Masturbation sexual S and plays with other young children. They affirm consequently that if the children have a sexuality and that some seek the sexual plays, they are able to grant sexual activities with any person, unbounded of age. Thus, much of childlovers criticize the concept of sexual Majorité used in the law. However, Alfred Kinsey was a discussed personality and much of Psychologues influential of its time, like Abraham Maslow, were very critical with respect to its methodology.

Many childlovers criticizes the actual position of the sex education in much of country. They affirm that forced ignorance and the abstinence cause only to oblige the young people who want to explore their sexuality to do it in hiding-place, which more strongly exposes them to unhealthy environments and coercive relations. John Coleman, of Association for the Study of Adolescence ( Trust for the Study off Adolescence ), known as:

“In the companies where there is more sex education, more open, there is a rate much lower pregnant teenagers. The parents are always afraid that to speak in connection with sexuality about the children does not involve children to be tested more early. However, any watch that the more one speaks about sex to young people, the more they are sensitized. ”

This point of view does not take account of research which shows that in the first stages of his development the child is not able to make clear and justified decisions. Many psychologists affirm that to learn the sex with the young children their is detrimental, and that it is only later in their life that they become sufficiently ripe to manage these relations.

The pederasts and hébephiles of the movement are also largely opposed to the laws on the assent. They advance that in the past, the Puberté was regarded as the passage at the adulthood in the majority of the companies, and that it is about a natural indication owing to the fact that the body is sexually ripe. They say that the legal definition is as arbitrary as discriminatory. Instead of the age of assent, they recommend that each individual who wishes to engage in sexual activities should be able to make his own decision. This point of view does not take account of the question of minimal maturity necessary to fully measure the consequences of its actions, traditional question for any field concerning the assent of minors (right to vote, driving license, etc).

In much of country, the age of the sexual Majorité is higher than the age of the Puberté. If a teenager maintains the sexual relationships with an adult between these two ages, this last can be regarded as a sexual attacker - although he is not paedophile.

Principles officially preached by the movement

Certain movements paedophiles affirm to know infantile sexuality and present officially principles preliminary to the sexual relationships with children, being summarized mainly with the assent of the child and his parents.

In 1998, Frans Gieles with work group JORIS (Association for a Sexual Reform, Dutch Association for Sexual Reform ) (NVSH) proposed four ethical rules to be followed at the time of a relation adult-children. At the same time, equivalent principles were proposed by other groups or personalities, giving place more recently to a synthesis by group MARTJIN in the following form:

Assent of the child and the adult;
Opening towards the parents of the child;
Freedom for the child to cease the relation constantly;
Harmony with the development of the child.

It is however difficult to know which credit to allot to the official principles presented by these movements. Let us note that so certain groups as MARTIJN preach the respect of the laws, thus discouraging fact the sexual relationships adult-children, others as KRUMME do not have these reserves.

Objections the most advanced with this " code éthique" are the following ones: the child is not sufficiently ripe to have freedom to put an end to an abusive relation and it could very easily be constrained to maintain the relation against its will, the paedophile who can use of force or handling. In addition, a very large majority of the psychologists of childhood affirm that a sexual relationship between an adult and a newborn can be done in harmony with a normal development of this one.

Discusses and public reaction

The members of the movement affirm that they do not approve the abuse children nor the illegal activities: the public opinion on this point is skeptic. This skepticism was reinforced by incidents made public implying members and groups associated with the movement in businesses with sexual abuse, like by the similarities between the speech of the movement and that of the sexual abusers seeking to justify their acts.

The movement caused a strong opposition and its social and political progression remained limited. Almost all the national governments conform to the protocols of the United Nations to define the laws on the age of assent and on the criminalisation of the childish pornography. The latter was the subject of a treaty in the United Nations, signed by nearly 130 countries between 2000 and 2004. As for the convention of the United Nations on the age of assent (1962), it makes the force of law a little everywhere since 1990.

In addition, in France certain ideas of the movement were taken up on their account by mediums of extreme-right-hand side in the Années 1980, which contributed to attach to the movement the qualification of “pédo-Nazi”.

Discusses on the bonds of the movement with criminal activities

Many militants for the prevention of the sexual abuse, professionals of the law and journalists note that the proclamations of the movement as for its disapproval of the sexual abuse were not always followed in the facts. The members of the movement often answer that the imposters do not belong to the movement, or that the movement could have helped them not to cross the yellow line. Some say that the purpose of the importance given to the arrests of imposters is only to make feel guilty the movement, by association of ideas. However, the usual observers remain skeptics and affirm that the promoters of a love and an inoffensive sexuality between adults and children always do not act as they claim it, by quoting these arrests like evidence.

Many of these incidents imply association NAMBLA, the most famous organization of the movement. Some affirm that these arrests are limited to this association and are not representative of the total movement. For the majority of the observers, these incidents show the public face of the movement and symbolize the problems arising from its objectives.

Lastly, much of opponents to the movement think that the term of childlove does not have a direction since they see any sexual contact adult-child as being abusive, and not having thus anything to see with the love ( coils ).

Some examples of recent businesses in the United States:

the reverend P.S., a marked priest to have misused the children as of 6 years for one three decades period, would have taken part in the first work and militant acts of the movement in its beginnings, according to the newspaper Boston Globe .

C.J., also suspected of belonging to NAMBLA, was condemned for the murder and the rape of a 10 year old child. The parents of the child continued NAMBLA and his persons in charge by affirming that C.J would have written in its personal newspaper that its participation in NAMBLA and the readings of the publications of association would have helped it to exceed its inhibitions with respect to the sex with the young boys.

J.D.S., a man condemned to San Francisco to have attacked a 11 year old boy at the time of a baby-sitting, met an anonymous investigator as a member of NAMBLA. According to the investigator, the man used his contacts at NAMBLA to exchange childish pornography and to have sexual relationships with children.

J.T was condemned for sexual assault on a child in 1989 then released on word in 1992 with the condition of not having childish pornography. After having moved without informing the authorities of its new address, it was found following an American television program on the search for criminals ( America' S Most Wanted ). It was stopped and condemned for childish pornography. At the time of the lawsuit, the court declared that J.T was member of NAMBLA, that association helped an orphanage in Thailand where children were deceived, and which J.T and other people voyagaient there to meet young boys. The evidence brought was photographs provided by the authority inhabitants of Thailand, showing J.T in company of young Thai boys sitted on him.

J.C.P., a New Yorkean having affirmed with the police force, according to the legal files, being member of NAMBLA, was stopped in 2000 and was condemned in 2001 to have made sodomy with a young boy

The publicity made around these incidents, added to the deep opposition of the opinion to the ideas of the movement, led to a great controversy around the activities and of the members of the movement. Many members of the movement took their distances with group NAMBLA and its ideas because of these controversies and the caused crimes.

Recovery by the extreme French line

In France, in the Years 1980 and at the beginning of the Years 1990, of the mediums close to the extreme right-hand side took up on their account certain ideas propédophiles and propédérastes. Indeed, the structure hierarchical, autoritarist and initiatory of the pederastic institution such as it existed in certain cities of ancient Greece and its proximity with the military organizations correspond to the ideals preached by this political current, in particular in the reports/ratios of authority between adults and children.

This recovery was in particular expressed in the columns of the magazine Gaie France , prohibited publication in 1993 for “incentive with the pedophilia”. It crystallized around personalities like Michel Caignet, Bernard Alapetite or Jean-Handbook Vuillaume, all three close relations of neofascist organizations and néo-Nazis, who will be later implied in legal affairs of childish Pornographie.

This phenomenon is at the origin of popular the imagery known as “pédo-Nazi”, who associates the extreme-right-hand side with the pedophilia and which perduré until the end of the years 1990. At the time of the advent of the Internet this image belonged to the phantasms and the fears supplied with the detractors of this novel mode of communication. It contributed to justify the introduction of various controls of information and of censures on Internet in various French laws voted during this period.

Reactions of the medical community to the scientific assertions of the movement

The current medical literature is very documented on the subject of the low registers and deep psychological damage caused by sexual contacts with children. The movement quotes several discussed scientific articles. Today, the majority of the medical community remains in dissension with the assertions of the movement on the harmlessness of the sexual contacts between adults and child in a great percentage of case; no study on results going in the direction of the ideas of the movement was accepted by the scientific community.

This being known as, the scientific community recognizes the difference between an adult which is satisfied to wish the children sexually and an adult which passes to the act. She also recognizes that the current comprehension of the nature of the pedophilia is very brief and that the studies on its treatment are not advanced. Fagan, Wise, Schmidt and Berlin write in their article of 2002 on the pedophilia:

“the diagnosis of pedophilia is applicable only to part of the individuals who misuse children sexually. This information was drawn from the research published on the pedophilia and the sexual abuse of children in general in order to present a state of knowledge. In spite of a great number of articles published on subjects like the sexual abuse, the ill-treatment and the sexual crime on the children, our basic data and knowledge on the pedophilia present great gaps. ”

Discusses on méta-analyzes of Rind, and Al , 1999

In 1999 in the United States took place a great debate around a scientific study which, on this subject, one of is discussed in the medical community: Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman, has meta-analytic examination off assumed properties off childsexual deceives using college samples. ( Méta-analyzes consequences of the sexual abuse on children, starting from nonclinical cases ); this study analyzes and compares the results of a whole of surveys carried out near high-school pupils having known an early sexual relationship with an adult. The conclusions of the study relativize much the negative effects of such relations. It thus is often referred to by the Childlove movement.

However, of the researchers think that this article is skewed in its methodology and its intentions. In Science gold Propaganda? year examination off Rind, Tromovitch and Bauserman (1998) ( Science or propaganda? A study of Rind, Tromovitch and Bauserman (1998) ), written Dallam: “After a meticulous examination of the evidence, we conclude that Rind and Al can be described as an article militant which uses science in an inappropriate way to try to legitimate its sights”

Principal criticisms of the article of Rind. & Al are the following ones:

basic Sample : The study is concentrated on investigations near high-school pupils, which excludes from the so traumatized victims that they could not reach such a level of studies. Spiegel writes in 2002, “At the base, Rind and Al were unaware of all those so implied in drug, the criminal activities, the prostitution or the financial problems and educational which they could not reach the college. ”

skewed Dimensions : in their Meta-Analyzes , Rind & Al affirms to compare the subjects of the initial investigations which had “consensual” relations with those which lived “not-consensual” experiments. However, the original investigations do not contain these data, which indicates a skew to the base even of the methodology of the study. Rind and Al apparently built these data on assumptions in connection with the relations between the kind and the assent. Other direct studies on the effects of the assent contradict the results of Rind and Al

Methodology : Holmes and Slap (1999) think that Rind and Al combined the data of the initial investigations in a soft and little tested way, by using several methods to translate the data into méta-analyzes.

Errors and possible handling of the results: in The Effects off Child Sexual Misuses: How one Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998) ( effects of the sexual abuse: comment of Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998) ), Dallam, Gleaves, Cepeda-Benito, Silberg, Kraemer and Spiegel write that Rind and Al purely and simply badly interpreted or badly deferred a great number of data of the initial investigations, thus skewing the results. They affirm moreover that these errors are not due randomly since they systematically support the thesis of the relativisation of the negative effects of the sexual abuse.

Some people, of the medical community or besides, considered that the article of Rind and Al was so defective that they showed the process of checking of the APA (editor of the article) of deficiencies. The APA thus assembled an independent team to revise the decision of publication. From aucuns conclude from it that the APA should not initially have let pass the article.

Activities of the movement

The principal activity of the movement is the moral support and psychological paedophiles who, otherwise, would have evil to speak about their attractions of fear of being ostracized S. For this purpose, some organizations of the movement provide services of listening and prevention of the Suicide, like the FreeSpirits grouping. The many discussion forums giving a certain freedom of speech to the paedophiles on their phantasms and attractions also play this part.

Association MARTIJN provides this kind of support and publishes a magazine named OK . It is also implied in other forms of activism, like propaganda brochure distribution and documents at the time of public events and during the Gaypride.

Certain paedophiles, pederasts or hébéphiles which qualifies to them-even boylovers and girllovers celebrate their sexual preferences regularly. The International Boylove Day ( international Day of BoyLove ) is celebrated the first Saturday after the Solstice of summer. This day, of the paedophiles attracted by the boys or the pederasts blue candles as a public light discreetly. The “day of Alice” (April 25th) is that of the paedophiles or hébéphiles attracted by the girls: it is the day when Lewis Carroll met Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired her work to him celebrates Alice with the country of the wonders, on April 25th 1856.

Robin Sharpe, a Canadian paedophile , could call into question certain aspects of the laws on the childish pornography of its country which, contrary to the France, also condemns the writings of this kind. At the time of its lawsuit, where the Supreme court of Canada gave him reason in 2002, it made the point that its own writings of fiction could not be illegal since they had an artistic aspect.

Symbols

For the BoyLovers , a named blue triangular spiral the " BLogo" in February 1997 by one of the founders of the Childlove movement was drawn on the Net being made call Kalos in partnership with the groups Free Spirits and FPC. The external triangle wants to symbolize the adult and the interior triangle the young boy child or teenager with which it is in love.

A similar logo, a heart inside a pink heart of color, or " GLogo" was developed later by GirlLovers to symbolize a bond in love between adults and young girls.

Finally a third logo, the " CLogo" , was proposed by the Dutch team which created GLogo to represent the aspiration of the " child lovers" in general. However, the members of the movement have opinions mitigated on this last logo and all do not recognize it.

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