NY Times column says pedophiles deserve civil rights and should not be treated as criminals
by: PF Louis
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Sure, The New York Times published it, but that doesn’t make it an official endorsement of pedophilia. This deserves to be parsed. It was published in the Op-Ed section, which is open to outside experts, such as Rutgers University law professor Margo Kaplen, for editorial opinions.
According to Op-Ed author Margo Kaplan, pedophilia is defined by the (uh-oh) psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) as an “intense and recurrent sexual interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder if it causes a person ‘marked distress or interpersonal difficulty’ or if the person acts on his interests.”
Margo claims that around half of child molesters are not actually attracted sexually to children, and many pedophiles who don’t act out their attractions consider sex with prepubescent children morally repulsive. In all fairness to Margo, she feels that individuals who don’t act out on their secret desires deserve civil rights protection.
But that begs the question, if such secret desires aren’t acted on, what’s the problem? Why not simply withhold those desires? Why make a big fuss and create websites such as Virtuous Pedophiles that serve as a forum to promote their rightful places in society without discrimination? If people don’t know, they can’t discriminate. Maybe that’s too simple a solution for most.
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