|
Concernant / About
Bennari, Latifa,
 |
La
Fin d'un silence; Pédophilie : une approche différente, 2003
Puisse ce livre œuvrer dans le sens d’une plus grande humanité et d’une
meilleure prévention de la maltraitance sexuelle ! |
|
The
End of a Silence; Pedophilia: a different approach, 2003
[Translation in English by Ipce's webmaster]
"I hope this book may help to reach a more humane approach to, and a
better prevention of sexual abuse!" |
|
Synopsis
[En français] |
Review of
Dean, Vice & Janus, Eric S., Failure
to Protect -
America
's
Sexual Predator Laws And the Rise of the
Preventive
State
In his new book,
Vice Dean and Professor Eric S. Janus exposes the broad threat to civil
liberties inherent in today's aggressive "sexual predator"
legislation.
About
Bock, Beautiful Children; Charles Bock; Random House, 417 pp.,
$25:
Franklin, Ruth, Depravity's Rainbow; The New Republic Published: Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The majority of missing children are runaways.
Why do children disappear? This is one of the preoccupations of Bock's
novel. Beautiful Children has been discussed as a novel about runaways. But it
is also, even more darkly and more importantly, a novel about pornography and prostitution, those twin pillars that together support
what is euphemistically known as the "adult entertainment industry."
Review of
Brody, Hugh, The People's Land; Inuit,
Whites and the Eastern Arctic, (Penguin Books 1975) Douglas & McIntyre, 1991 paperback
edition, 272 pp.:
|
Sharpe, Robin, The
teacher who liked to make love to boys; A Book Review; 2006
Brody wrote THE PEOPLE'S LAND in the seventies before the current hysteria about
man/boy sex had become pervasive. In his book he hardly mentions sex again
as he explores how the Inuits and the Whites see themselves and each
other.
He uses the story about the teacher who liked to make love with boys as an
illustration of the differences in perception and lack of communication
between the arrogant Whites and the reticent Inuit. |
About
Burgess, Melvin, Doing
It; Andersen Press
Two book reviews:
|
Frean, Alexandra, Charities criticise sexually explicit
children's novel; The Times [UK]. March 29, 2003
A CHILDREN’S novel
containing graphic depictions of sex between a boy and his woman teacher and
stamped with the words “warning: explicit content” is causing
controversy even before it has gone on sale. |
|
Fine, Anne, Should Doing It be published by a children's
imprint? Saturday March 29, 2003, The Guardian
All of the publishers who have touched this novel should be deeply ashamed
of themselves. Astonishingly, they are almost all female. |
Dekadon, M. G., (2002), DAS
PROTOKOLL - Die Vernehmung und Überführung von Zielperson
Dear Gentlemen, as a German I dare to address you attention in my meager English
to a new book. As the author of "Das Protokoll", I want to let you
know its appearance at Kontrast-Verlag in these days. From a
professional point of view (I am Psychologist), the book reflects some
hysteric and abusive aspects of present discussion about "pedofilia"
in Western Society.
Downey, Rod, The Moralist, a novel < http://www.the-moralist.com/
>
Fifty-year-old "spin doctor" Red Rover volunteers for a creative
writing mentoring program and falls in love with his twelve-year-old protege
Jonathan. Over the next year and a half, as their relationship and the boy
matures, Red becomes outraged by the witch-hunt hysteria gripping the nation.
When his best friend's house is burned, he decides to act, even if it means
threatening his love for Jonathan
|
Interview
with the author on a .wmv file |
|
Is
it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s super ped! Rod Downey, The
Moralist, A
review by Tom O'Carroll
|
|
Jones, Arnold Wayne, Dallas
author Rod Downey treads shaky ground with new novel about older man and
young boy - The dangerous topic of pederasty; Dallas Voice, 2002
As I read about the ideas espoused by Rod Downey in preparation for our
interview, [...] |
|
Hower, Billy, The
Moralist: Apology or empathy for pederasty? In: Celebrate!
"Man-boy-love" are three words most people do not like to see
strung together. The Moralist is a novel about a man’s crusade to change
public hostility toward boy-lovers. The author, Rod Downey, has the same
goal. [...]
The book argues that consensual sex between adults and minors is usually a
positive experience for the youth. [...] He argues that society’s
hysterical reactions cause the most harm. [...] In spite of my agreements
with some of the author’s thesis, I have reservations about the power
relationship between the lovers. [...]
The Moralist is worth reading because it brings much needed light to a
subject generally considered taboo. |
About
Gerassi, John, see
Mackey, Thomas C.,
"Review of John Gerassi, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City,"
H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, May, 2002.
Review of
Giroux, Henry A., Stealing Innocence:
corporate culture's war on children, 9.99
Childhood is a social construction as well as a biological process. Parents,
increasingly backed up by the state, have always tended to raise children in the
light of what they believe others will expect of them in later life, with such
expectations varying according to family wealth and prevailing cultural and
economic norms.
About
Greer, Germaine, The Boys:
About The
Boys, AAP, January 24, 2003
Feminist icon Germaine Greer expects to be branded a pedophile after writing a
new book challenging conventional views on child pornography.
Greer, 63, says The Boy, which looks at male children in Western art, is about
reclaiming the right of women to enjoy the beauty of boys.
About
Hammel-Zabin, Dr. Amy, Conversations
with a Pedophile, 2003
Two book reviews.
Conversations With a Pedophile is a landmark book. It is the first time the
uncensored voice of a pedophile will be heard.
About
Hood, Lynley, A City Possessed, The Christ-church Civic Crèche Case,
Lynley Hood, Longacre Press, NZ$59.95, 2001:
|
Chrisholm, Donna, Book
sparks call to pardon Ellis, Sunday Star Times September 30 2001
page1
AN AUTHOR who has spent seven years researching the Peter Ellis case has
called for the government to pardon Ellis and set up a commission of inquiry
into the criminal justice system.
Lynley Hood's long-awaited book A City Possessed, on the Christchurch Civic
Crèche case which saw Ellis sentenced to 10 years' jail in 1993 for
sexually abusing seven children, concludes he was innocent - the victim of a
city's moral panic.
She says her investigation gave her "shock after shock" as she
realised the scale of the flaws in the criminal justice system - and the
flimsiness of the prosecution case. |
|
Chrisholm, Donna, Ellis
in blunderland; A new book on the Peter Ellis case concludes he was
the innocent victim of a city in the grip of mass hysteria; Sunday Star
Times, New Zealand, September 30 2001 Page C5
OPEN Lynley Hood's latest book like an onion and peel back layer after layer
of injustice. Read it and weep. Put the cops in the Peter Ellis case on
trial, along with the sex abuse industry, social welfare and the judiciary
and return the verdicts. Guilty, guilty, guilty.
And Ellis? Convict him of having a big mouth and long fingernails. But
sexually abusing kids? No way. |
Lanning, Kenneth V, Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
For Law-Enforcement Officers Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Children
by Acquaintance Molesters, Fourth Edition September 2001
About
Levine, Justine, Harmful for Minors, The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex,
Harmful to Minors will
make a much needed and significant intervention into discussions of children's
sexuality, adult fears and irrationality about the same, and about the moral,
political, and public health risks of failing to come to grips with this
culture's anxiety and ignorance about children's erotic desires and needs. This
work is extraordinarily informed and wittily incisive—in addition to academics
and professionals, our hope is that this book will engage adult and perhaps teen
readers, and be reassuring to parents.
Overviews
Lecture
|
'Harmful
to Minors' - The perils of protecting children from sex.
Lecture
about the book of Judith Levine, Harmful for Minors, The perils of
protecting children from sex, 2001.
By Frans Gieles
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands, 1 November 2002, Study conference 'Aljen Klamer group',
Paul' s Church, "Abuse by definition? Image and reality"
|
Articles
|
Burning
a Book Before It's Printed, By Eloquence, Sun Apr 7th, 2002,
juro5hin.org
|
|
Bronski,
Michael, The
kids are alright, April 2002
Judith Levine’s new book calls for honest debate about children and
sexuality. She’s hit the right’s gag reflex. |
|
Nathan,
Debbie,
The Taboos of
Touch, AlterNet,
April 18, 2002 |
|
Lerner,
Sharon, Kids'
Sexuality Finds a Champion -- and Conservatives Attack Underage and Under
Siege, in: The Village Voice, Week of July 3 - 9, 2002
[..] Drawing on social science and history, Levine makes a strong case that
the denial of sexuality is the true cause of harm to minors. [..] Harmful
to Minors' most important contribution is tying that protective impulse
to adults' deep-rooted discomfort with their own sexuality. |
|
Levine,
Judith, A
Question of Abuse, Mother Jones, July/August 1996
An influential group of therapists is promoting a new scare: children who
molest other children. Those who question the murky evidence are said to be
in denial. But it is the kids, taken from home and given intense therapy,
who might be sufferering the most. |
|
Levine,
Judith, The
Romance a Teenage Camper Couldn't Have Today Summer of Love, in:
Village Voice, Week of July 3 - 9, 2002 |
|
O'Keefe,
Mark, Some
in mainstream contend certain cases of adult-minor sex should be acceptable,
Newhouse News Service, Star Tribune [Minneapolis, Minnesota], March 26, 2002 |
|
O'Carroll,
Tom, Review
of JUDITH LEVINE: HARMFUL TO MINORS, University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis, 2002 (Published on the www, July 2002)
No book I know of on child sexuality or paedophilia has been so trumpeted or
traduced in advance as Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors. Months ahead of
publication it was being denounced as "evil" by right-wing
Christian fundamentalists, and high-level political pressure was heaped onto
the University of Minnesota Press to abandon the project. |
|
Q
and A with Judith Levine, the author of Harmful to Minors: The
Perils of Protecting Children from Sex |
|
Rosin, Hanna,
Lust
Busters, The perils of protecting
adults from protecting children from sex, slate.mns.com, june 2002 |
|
Flanders,
Laura; The
Risks of 'Protection': Panic Over Youthful Sexuality Endangers Kids
Review of Judith Levine's book "Harmful for Minors".
Short report about the attacks of the Religious Right.
Levine's book is not dangerous, but there are dangers out there -- dangers
that ravage at least as many lives as the pedophiles the cultish Concerned
Women want everyone to worry about.
We as a society are way too quick to see aggression, molestation and
outright deviance in healthy expressions of youthful sexuality -- and way
too quick to shame, criminalize and patholologize healthy children for
making all sorts of sexual explorations that are just part of their natural
development. - Says Levine. |
Interview
|
Levine, Judith:
What's harmful?
Harmful to Minors is a controversial book that examines our cultural
attitudes towards childhood sexuality; April 23, 2002, Judith Levine radio interview
transcript.
[Levine:] " The fact is that teenagers have sexual lives, and that a fair number of
them, probably millions every day, are actually involved in what would legally be called statutory rape situations. Most kids, you
know, if that were so harmful, we would see a lot more sexual misery among teenagers. So, my tendency would be to look at this from a
child welfare standard rather than a kind of criminal standard." [...]
[Interesting are the frequent interruptions of Mr Rober Kight, from a
conservative organization. Knight:]
" I think it's morally evil to encourage children to masturbate, because it gives them a false sense of what sexuality is about.
" [...]
{Levine:] " I think one of the main points of my book is, let's listen to young people about their real lives.
[...] We need to listen to kids and not just tell them what they think and what they
feel [...].
|
About:
David Marr, The Henson Case -Australia:
Craven, Peter, No nudes today, zealots rule, OK?
- The Age; October 6, 2008
The photographs by Henson, subjected to the most intense scrutiny by the
highest authorities, in a context of aggravated moral panic and revulsion, have been cleared of any taint of pornography, quite apart
from artistic merit.
The opposite viewpoint has no legal basis and is socially deranged because it assumes the only non-family motive for ever taking photos of
children must be perverted.
This falls into precisely the trap of sexualising children that the campaigners so fear.
It's sick, and it has to be resisted.
Mackey, Thomas C.,
"Review of John Gerassi, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City,"
H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, May, 2002. Introduction
< http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156391022082878
>
When this volume first appeared in 1966, it fit the
liberal times. Its sneering tone at mainstream United States culture reflected
the East coast author's superior attitude of knowing what was best for the
population of far-away Boise, Idaho. His goal was to inflict heterosexual guilt
on the locality, to impugn the character and motivations of the local elites and
the established Idaho social order, and to force social change onto a
"backward" area of the country. As such, The Boys of Boise
is a cultural relic of the social liberalism of the 1960s.
O'Carroll,
Tom, Paedophilia, the Radical Case, 1980 (External link)
Considering the passions the subject generates, there are surprisingly
few books on paedophilia. It may be that some 'professionals' - psychiatrists,
criminologists and the like - are reluctant to express too great an interest for
fear of being thought prurient, or self-interested. Their contribution tends to
be confined to articles in specialist journals, or the odd page or two in huge
textbooks on 'abnormal' psychology.
Except covertly, in novels and poems, there have been few contributions from
paedophiles either, for the very good reason that being an 'out' paedophile in
our society is a hazardous business. In any case the taboo against paedophilia
has rendered it literally 'unspeakable' (hence 'unwriteable') except when
referred to in the most denunciatory terms.
I am a paedophile, and in the chapters that follow it will become apparent why I
have felt it necessary to crash through the barriers of societal disapproval by
speaking out.
About
Ree, Frank van, Pedofilie; een controversiële kwestie. Analyse van een
maatschappelijk vraagstuk
|
A new call to think critically,
Book review by Chris, The Netherlands, Taken from Koinos # 31 (2001 # 3; with
one paragraph added
In April 2001, the Dutch psychiatrist Frank van Ree published the book Pedofilie;
een controversiële kwestie. Analyse van een maatschappelijk vraagstuk
(Pedophilia: a controversial issue. Analysis of a social problem).
Van Ree starts out by asserting that the media present a one-sided picture
of "sex with children and young persons", and moreover, that they
are poorly informed about the terminology used in these matters.
. |
|
Ein neuer Ansatz zu einer
Nuancierung; Buchbesprechung; Chris, Niederlande, Koinos Magazine
No. 31.
Der niederländische Psychiater Frank van Ree hat im April 2001 sein
neuestes Buch Pedofilie; een controversiële kwestie. Analyse van een
maatschappelijk vraagstuk (Pädophilie; ein kontroverses Thema. Analyse
einer gesellschaftlichen Frage) vorgelegt. Van Ree stellt zunächst die
These auf, dass die Medien ein einseitiges Bild von ‘Sex mit Kindern und
Jugendlichen’ vermittelten und obendrein über die einschlägige
Terminologie schlecht informiert seien. |
Review of
Robson, Catherine, Men in Wonderland:
The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman
Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls
represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for
middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In *Men in
Wonderland*, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various
nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the
nature of their investment in the figure of the girl. In so doing, she reveals
the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of
male development -- a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an
initial feminine stage, lived out in the protective environment of the nursery.
Little girls, argues Robson, thus offer an adult male the best opportunity to
reconnect with his own lost self.
About
Roiphe, Katie, ... [title unknown: book about Lewiss Carroll:
'Alice' author exposed; Alice Liddell posed
for Lewis Carroll
BBC News, 31 October 2001
US feminist Katie Roiphe has written a novel based on the relationship between
Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and his child muse.
It is well known that Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, admired
Alice Liddell, the inspiration for his famous book.
But Roiphe's novel portrays the relationship in sexual terms, with Carroll
struggling with feelings about 11-year-old Alice, which tormented him because he
was determined not to act on his physical urges.
Sandfort, Theo; Brongersma, Edward & Van Naerssen, Alex; Male Intergenerational Intimacy,
Journal of Homosexuality Volume 20, 1/2, 1990, also edited as a book.
|
Sandfort, Theo; Brongersma, Edward & Van Naerssen,
Alex; Man-Boy Relationships: Different Concepts for a Diversity of Phenomena;
Introduction to this issue.
In contemporary Western society, intimate and sexual relations between men
and boys are considered as immoral, unlawful, psychologically deviant and
damaging to the boys involved, regardless of the emotional contexts in which
they occur. By almost exclusively studying these relationships as forms of
sexual abuse, the social sciences have narrowed our view of this subject.
The current social climate makes it rather difficult to look at these
relationships in an objective way. |
|
Bauserman, Robert, Objectivity
and Ideology, Criticism of Theo Sandfort’s Research on Man-Boy Sexual
Relations; Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 20, nr. ½, 1990
Three critiques of Theo Sandfort’s research on man-boy sexual
relationships in the Netherlands are examined and evaluated. Three types of
criticism - methodological, speculative and moral - are identified. Specific
criticisms of the study are evaluated on the basis of their validity and,
where appropriate, their underlying assumptions. It is argued that moral
condemnation of such relationships, combined with a prevailing ideology of
boy "victims" and adult "perpetrators," results in
efforts by Sandfort’s critics to attack and discredit his research rather
than evaluate it objectively. |
|
Brongersma, Edward, The
Thera Inscriptions Ritual or Slander?
Inscriptions carved in a rock on the Greek island of Thera and dating
from the 6th or 7th century BC have homosexual contents. Originally
considered a testimony to ritual sacred acts, they were described [...] as
vulgar pornographic graffiti. Arguments against this view and in favor of
the formal ritual interpretation are proposed. A final explanation is
suggested, conforming to local customs and the general conceptions of
ancient Greek boy-love. |
|
Naerssen, Alex van, Man-Boy
Lovers: Assessment, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
Clinical experiences
with 36 males, between the ages of 21 and 60 are described. All of
them felt an enduring sexual attraction for boys. [...]
Several modalities of interpersonal interaction in man-boy relationships are
proposed and the ways conflicts can arise within these frames of reference
are explored in counseling and psychotherapy. |
|
Zessen, Gertjan
van, A
Model for Group Counseling with Male Pedophiles
Group
treatment programs for pedophiles are often designed for populations of
convicted men in closed institutions with limited application to other
populations. Treatment is usually focused on reducing the ‘deviant”
sexual arousal and/or acquiring hetero-social skills and eventually
establishing the ability to engage in adult heterosexual relationships. A
six-week highly structured program is presented to five men in a
non-residential setting. In addition to individual psychotherapy, group
counseling is offered. |
Sharpe, John Robin, R.
v. SHARPE: A Personal Account, November, 2001. [External link]
This book is about my child pornography charges
under Canada's broad and restrictive laws. It is written from the viewpoint of
the defendant, the view from below. It is my perspective and interpretation of
what happened, it incorporates my values and ideas and what I see the law
meaning for broader social and legal questions.
Vogel,
Wolf, Heimliche Liebe - Eros zwischen Knabe und Mann; Jahn & Ernst
Verlag. [A Word document]
About
Waiton, Stuart, Scared of the Kids?
Curfews, crime and the regulation of young people, May 2001.
Scared of the Kids? is a thorough examination of the lives of and
relationships between young people and adults within communities today. The book
is recommended as an important overview or anybody working within the community
– especially those working with children, young people and families.
A key question the author addresses is "How should those of us working
in the community deal with the levels of fear and insecurity that exists between
the generations?"
About
Richard Webster's [book:] The Secret of Bryn Estyn:
Brislow, Jennie, The making of a modern-day witch hunt;
spiked-online.com, 30 January 2009
The publication of the paperback version of Richard Webster's [book:] The Secret
of Bryn Estyn is a powerful reminder of who is driving today's hysterical anti-paedophile witch hunts: police, judges, politicians -- the
elite, not the mob.
Wilson, Paul, The
Man They Called A Monster, Sexual experiences between men and boys;
Cassell Australia Limited, 1981 [External link]
One of the last taboos left in this age of sexual openness is the prohibition
against sex between adults and children. Indeed, men who engage in sex with
young males or females are treated as modern day folk-devils, deserving society
s severest and most draconian punishment.
Clarence Osborne was a 56-year-old Australian court reporter who regularly had
sex with young boys and adolescents. Indeed, this mild, frail-looking man was
able to have sexual adventures with 2500 adolescent males, most of whom appeared
willing to physically and emotionally relate to him.
In exploring the life of this sexual pied-piper, Wilson raises questions about
sexuality that are bound to make this book a highly controversial one. The
questions challenge conventional wisdom: [...]
|
