Pedophilia Is Soul Murder

Pedophilia Is Soul Murder

By Bob Small

Sometimes the easiest way for society to deal with the incurable is to “normalize” it. In certain cases, where the behavior is between “consenting adults” and does not cause harm to anyone, such as gay love, this becomes easy. Furthermore, this may be something, love between adult consensuals, that could and should have been legalized decades, if not centuries ago.

Obviously, there are some to whom the LCB and/or the GLBT community will never be “alright”, just as there continues to be prohibition advocats and religions. Parenthetically, war as a solution to conflicts was “normalized” centuries ago. And so on,

But now there have been consideration as to what to do about pedastry, or pedophilia, sex between adults and children, understanding that children can never give their consent, due to the power imbalance in their relationship. However this happens, it is a form of rape, whether physical or psychological.

So now there are moves afoot to “normalize” this behavior. However, what this does to the child involved is a certain form of murder of the soul, if not the body, whether by a priest, a scout leader, a relative, or a stranger.

Most recently USA Today had an article in which Old Dominion University Professor Allyn Walker, (soon to be ex-professor) had a book on Pedophilia subtitled “Minor-attracted People and their pursuit of dignity”. Part of this may be due to what seems to be a fact that pedophilia has a low rate of “recovery”, a la Can Pedophiles Change.

This is not only a male problem, as a recent article in The Daily Beast made clear, though this is still primarily a male issue.

If we don’t normalize this “condition”, then what do you have? I would propose you have both a crime and a disease, and we need appropriate responses to both. If someone has raped a child, that is a crime and should be punished. If, however, someone comes to his, or her, Psychiatrist saying that “I have a desire to have sex with children and I haven’t but I need help to find a way to have normal desires”, where should we go with this, knowing this, like diabetes, etc, does not yet have a cure.

In a future post, we can look at how society has “approved” this vile behavior.