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The Science of Pedophilia: Is It a Sexual Orientation?
Dr. James Cantor, the Head of Research in the Sexual Behaviors Clinic from Canada's top mental health and teaching hospital, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, spoke to Gawker about his research into the brains of pedophiles. He began looking for brain variations in pedophiles because of a number of clues. He'd found that, compared to sex offenders who had victimized adults, or teleiophiles, pedophiles' IQs were, on average, 10 points lower - in fact, the lower the IQ, the younger the child that pedophiles tended to victimize.
Further research led to discoveries that pedophiles tended to do poorly on memory tests. They also tended to be shorter in stature than teleiophiles, as if the whole body was not formed correctly. They were more likely to have failed grades in school, and to have suffered from head injuries before the age of 13.
Perhaps most striking of all, pedophiles were less likely to be right-handed. The handedness was a particularly huge clue, because in most people, the left hemisphere of the brain develops faster and earlier than the other hemisphere, causing people to be right-handed. But if there are changes in-utero, like nutrition or stress, the brain stops growing, and the other part of the brain starts to compensate.
In general, 8 to 12 percent of the population is left-handed or ambidextrous. In the pedophiles that Cantor studied, a third of them were. www.medicaldaily.com...
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Child molestation of any sort is the most abominable type of sexual predation in my opinion.
Pedophilia cannot be "normalized" because children cannot give consent for sexual activity.
Just as a note, I'm very disappointed that Salon magazine gave this guy a platform without a helluva lot more structure that stated, unequivocally, that they stand against sexual predation and child abuse.
However, to imply that this represents what all liberals/progressives/leftists/Democrats etc. stand for is garbage.
Nah...the Left OWNS IT. This guy is theirs. Salon is theirs. The infiltration of the "What if" hypothesis is theirs. The entertaining of notions....theirs.
Featuring a 5 year old girl in a video to further drive home his thought, and producing the video....theirs.
THEIRS and all theirs.
No, your agenda against the left and all things not to your liking wants desperately to link it all together.
I agree with you that it was STUPID for Salon to give this guy a platform without making their position clear.
But Salon Magazine no more "Stands for Me" than Infowars or Breitbart does for you. Give us a break.
This must be thrilling for all of you who are so desperate to tie sexual predation to anything LGBT related.
That's the part you should look at if you were being honest with yourself.
I've been PRO GAY MARRIAGE for 20 years +....running.
The F outa here with that garbage.
It doesn't really show in anything you have posted.
Hell, for what it's worth, I'm not against letting gays have their unions either. I only care when they start telling others they have to participate.
It's one thing for people to have their thing and go off and do their thing, and it's entirely different in my mind for them to compel everyone around them to take part and approve.
But once they do what they do, I could care less. They are what they are, and it is what it is. It makes no difference to me anymore than other couples do.
originally posted by: reldra
That was obviously sick. he has a mental problem. But he didn;t do anything illegal. Again 'thought crime'.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: reldra
That part I read was weird...but it was out of her sight and she was never touched. He should never have been babysitting. Obviously.
And I wonder who put him up to that?
I am guessing he wasn't randomly grabbed off the street and volunteered. He probably put himself up to do it. I wonder how long he's known the little girl in question, and how long the situation had escalated prior to him offering to babysit?
Was he grooming her?
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
originally posted by: reldra
That was obviously sick. he has a mental problem. But he didn;t do anything illegal. Again 'thought crime'.
And Jared wants out of jail
Fogle attorney: Fantasizing about sex with minors is not a crime
www.indystar.com...
originally posted by: RainbowPhoenix
a reply to: Winstonian
I swear to God I will lead the movement myself to distance the LGBT community away from this filth if they even think about attaching that P to our movement. We did not come this far just to be dragged down by this disgusting group of cretins. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of these creatures are acts of extreme violence sometimes involving pliers and a blow torch.
originally posted by: reldra
If you mean the cake thing, the cake place I feel should have made a cake. But then said 'No' when asked for a plastic same sex cake topper, . . .
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
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originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
No it doesn't.
I accept pedophila as a hard wired sexual orientation. Born that way.
Just I accept all of LGBT orientations and Gender Dysphoria that are hard wired. Born that way.
Their brain tells them who they are. Just as my brain tells me who I am.
One orientation will have a victim if acted upon. The ACT is illegal for a reason.
originally posted by: Bone75
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
No it doesn't.
I accept pedophila as a hard wired sexual orientation. Born that way.
Just I accept all of LGBT orientations and Gender Dysphoria that are hard wired. Born that way.
Their brain tells them who they are. Just as my brain tells me who I am.
One orientation will have a victim if acted upon. The ACT is illegal for a reason.
So would you support removing it from the DSM?
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Bone75
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
No it doesn't.
I accept pedophila as a hard wired sexual orientation. Born that way.
Just I accept all of LGBT orientations and Gender Dysphoria that are hard wired. Born that way.
Their brain tells them who they are. Just as my brain tells me who I am.
One orientation will have a victim if acted upon. The ACT is illegal for a reason.
So would you support removing it from the DSM?
I don't know. I was on the boards when scientists (not sure if same ones) presented pedophilia as an orientation.
There was major backlash from the Religious Right. They then retracted, and reworded it.
Science/research is funded by grants. Can't piss off the "granters". This is one money conspiracy I actually watched happen in real time.