there if there is at the buck up there's a couple other stories actually related
to this and one is that there's a conference which summer saying aims to
normalize pedophilia and this is a small group of psychiatrists and other mental
health professionals which are they they took uh... part in a conference called b
four u ac beaded number for the letter you act
that concern here is that
before you act is looking to remove pedophilia from the american
psychological seki after dissociation bible of mental illnesses
which is the the dea semaphore
and
and he has time for a set to go to undergo a lot of revisions around twenty
thirteen before twenty thirteen and critics are warning that if this before
you act conference exceeds
there could be decriminalization of pedophilia
others are saying no that's not what they're looking to do
there let's look at the evidence and figured out
the
conferences sponsored by a group of winner
i even in saying this i know that there's not total agreement
it's what i would describe
perot pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic type
activists
and uh...
the goal is
that they want to find out what ways they can uh... ways in which minor
attracted persons that's the term being used minor attracted persons
can be involved in the d_s_ m five revision process and how popular
perceptions of pedophiles can be refrained to encourage tolerance what
i'm hearing in that
is trying to bring some i don't even know what the writer ms legitimacy
shantha pedophilia i mean how would you did what comes to mind when you hear
that list
it sounds
like the ultimate goals decriminalization of of pedophilia timmy
it's hard to say what the trying to achieve your before you act has been
active in attacking the e_p_a_'s definition of pedophilia in the run up
to this conference
and they've denounced the description of minor attracted persons as inaccurate
and misleading
because the current yes and links pedophilia with criminality it is true
criminality is based on the laws of whatever area of jurisdiction one is in
is separate
from being attracted from adults being attracted to minors that is the case
right
conventionally in this country it is a criminal act
however it is not a psychiatric evaluation what do you think about that
but i did that difference relevant i mean people saying hey
were trying to disconnect criminalization with the condition that
some people have being attracted to minors
mohawk and legal to be attracted
to minor spitz not only will they be attracted to her you can be a pedophile
in iraq tonic certainly
but is this really the direction we want to go through looking to decriminalizing
it is criminal
and who is going to argue really for the decriminalization of that especially
when the whole point is that the minor cannot consent i mean isn't that the
point in time
yet seems like of the question here is if it's a minor and mike you're saying
they can't consent
then it appeared for it to be legal let me just doesn't make any common sense
what's interesting though
is that conservatives
for a long time referred to homosexuality in the same way right they
would say listen
homosexuality
is aid non normative behavior
and it should be described in the same way as pedophilia
india sent
the difference of course is that pedophilia targets the partner
that by definition is not capable legally of making a mature troisi
legally and colloquial in in the cat seven-year-old kid for example
cannot make a mature choice of but they whether they sexually want to be with an
adult or younger
my concern here
is that the conservatives are getting wrapped up in this and taking it as an
opportunity
tetreault homosexuality into the next
is inherently an essentially aids victim
whereas homosexuality is consentual
and i really hope that in defending
legislation that does keep pedophilia criminal
homosexuality does not get brought into it by religious conservatives that's my
concern in this debate yeah clear clearly there's no
there's no comparing the two
personal stake no question about it