München: "Die Häufigkeit psycho- und funktionell-neurotischer Beschwerden und das soziale Verhalten der Probanden mit (einvernehmlichen) pädophilen Kindheitserlebnissen weichen nicht vom Durchschnitt der niederländischen Bevölkerung ab."
NAMBLA: In Bernard's study, 30 Dutch citizens recalled their childhood sexual experiences with adults. Of those cited in the write-up, most report positive feelings toward the experience, including happy descriptions of youthful initiation into sex.
Cite (Sandfort): Corsini-Munt rapporteert dat in 20 van de 31 in het kader van de hulpverlening door haar bestudeerde gevallen, de ouders als sterker getraumatizeerd overkwamen dan het kind zelf.
München: Wie kaum sonst irgendwo im Strafrecht, prallen gerade hinsichtlich "Unzucht mit Kindern" die Fiktionen einer längst im Dogma erstarrten "Straf-Theologie" so hart und unversöhnlich mit den nüchternen Daten der Empirie zusammen, wie hier. "Die vorliegende Sekundäranalyse versucht ... zu empirisch möglichst abgesicherten ... generellen Aussagen zur Kriminologie der gewaltlosen `Unzucht mit Kindern', insbesondere auch über die bestimmenden Faktoren für Art und Ausmaß abfälliger seelischer Schäden nach einschlägigen Delikten zu gelangen." Sicher nicht pädophilenfreundlich, jedoch verzichtet der Verfasser auf die Verteufelung der "Täter" und warnt vor Irrationalität in der Mißbrauchsdebatte.
NAMBLA: Ingram examined ninety-two cases of boys brought to his private practice in Great Britain for psychiatric treatment following sexual involvement with adults. Ingram concludes that "I do not think ... that any of the children were worse off for the activity; many, no doubt, may be better off for a relationship with a loving adult" (p. 186).
Intergenerational intimacy between boys and men is presented as an important issue for the Men's Studies component of Gender Studies. Man/boy social intimacy is seen as potentially facilitating the anti-sexist socialization of boys as well as providing individual psychological benefits to the participants by means of breaking down restrictive male stereotypes. Specific potential benefits from such relationships include less homophobia, experience and practice in interpersonal interaction within a relatively familiar same-sex context, and contact for the younger male with a real adult "model" instead of the media- based models that are more typical for males in contemporary society. The rationale for encouraging same-sex intergenerational relationships derives from the fact that prior to adulthood developing humans focus first on same-sex associations and role models. This developmental process is outlined in some detail. Potential problems of males socializing other males are discussed. Previous studies are reviewed and suggestions for future research are presented.
Quote: Die Abwehr von Sittlichkeitsdelikten gilt vor allem dem Schutz des Kindes. ... Viele Sittlichkeitsdelikte erfolgen aber ohne jede Gewaltanwendung, nicht gegen den Willen des Kindes, ja unter Umständen sogar mit seiner ausdrücklichen Zustimmung. Hier wird als Legitimation der Bestrafung der seelische Schaden herausgestellt, der dem Kind durch zu frühe Konfrontation mit der Sexualität zugefügt werde. ... Die Erfahrung bei der Beobachtung solcher Kinder und eine genauere Untersuchung ergibt jedoch, daß die prinzipielle Annahme einer seelischen Schädigung durch die Konfrontation mit sexuellen Handlungen Erwachsener sich kaum aufrecht erhalten läßt
N.N.: Remember, [Money] is the man who documented not merely lack of harm or a neutral outcome but actually POSITIVE outcomes in pedophile relationships (with co-author James Weinrich), this in addition to the vast quantities of all his other groundbreaking work.
Child sexual abuse is widely regarded as a cause of mental health problems in adult life. This article examines the impact of child sexual abuse on social, sexual and interpersonal functioning, and its potential role in mediating the more widely recognised impacts on mental health. In discussing the relationship between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology, the authors evaluate a number of models, including the post-traumatic stress disorder model, the traumatogenic model, and developmental and social models. They look at family risk factors which predispose children from specific population groups to be at greater risk of abuse, and conclude that the fundamental damage caused by child sexual abuse impacts on the child's developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality.
Conclusions: The hypothesis advanced in this paper is that, in most cases, the fundamental damage inflicted by child sexual abuse is to the child's developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality, and that many of the mental health problems of adult life associated with histories of child sexual abuse are second-order effects. This hypothesis runs counter to the post-traumatic stress disorder model, and suggests different therapeutic strategies and strategies of secondary prevention.
This paper establishes a comprehensive continuum model for the phenomenon of intergenerational sexual contact, defined as any behavior between a minor and someone at least 5 years older that is perceived by either participant or by society as sexually stimulating or intended to be sexually stimulating. The study suggests that society's condemnation is overlooked as a variable that contributes unnecessary confusion and harm. Three vocabulary changes are recommended to help reduce professional and social bias and encourage a more open examination of intergenerational sexual contact.
Intergenerational sexual contact has been conceptually limited to a problem-oriented, victim/violence model that often neglects participants' perceptions and other variable situational factors. Most operational definitions include only unwanted or problematic experiences or samples taken entirely from disturbed populations.
Impartial scientific models, which seek to understand the world as it really is, must assume that any event can occur and thus consider the full spectrum of possibilities. If the field of human sexuality is to be comprehensive, it must study, without generalizing, all types, including the extremes, of adult interest in childhood sexuality and all types of childhood sexual experience with adults. In an effort to reduce unneces- sary and possibly damaging professional bias, this paper suggests three simple terminology changes that can easily be implemented to help professionals, and ultimately society at large, to reconceptualize the phenomenon in its entirety.
DD: The author divides adult participants of child-adult sexuality in the pathological (because of psychological problems), pedophilic (having an actual preference for children) and visionary (ideological proponents of child-adult sex) categories. Pedophiles are further subdivided in eroticizing (have sex with children) and non-eroticizing (no sex because of greater self-control). Children are divided in powerless and precocious children.
Negative sexual socialization is often the genesis of adult sexual problems. This can be caused by molestation and exploitation, social disapproval of exploratory sex play with peers and adults and/or cultural desexualization and denial of children's normal sexual thoughts and feelings.
Several examples are given of studies that showed non-negative or even positive sexual contacts of children with adults. On the other hand there are also negative contacts, but claims by some researchers that such contacts are negative by definition are wrong. One should also take caution that negative effects need not be caused by the experience itself, but can also be caused by the societal response or the need for secrecy?
The author proposes to use words that do not include value judgments (such as 'intergenerational sexuality', 'sexual experience' and 'participant'.
An exploratory, descriptive study of 37 male and 26 female subjects reporting childhood or adolescent intergenerational sexual contacts about which subjects maintained, at least in part, "positive" feelings is reported. An informal comparison group of 7 female victims of sexual abuse also participated. Subjects were administered a 21-page, 130-item questionnaire designed to explore and evaluate childhood functioning and development, the nature of the sexual experience, and its possible impact on adult life. Eight subjects also participated in subsequent in-depth telephone interviews. A wide range of characteristics and possible effects of the experiences were reported, suggesting that intergenerational sexual contacts may represent a continuum of experience rather than a unitary and discrete pathological phenomenon.
PRD: A scholarly review of the research literature by the Institute Of Psychiatry. Concludes that in incidents where no force or violence is used, there is very little evidence that the child will be psychologically disturbed or damaged by either the emotional or sexual aspects of the relationship.
München: A longitudinal study of nine cases in reported where the adolescent male was engaged after puberty in sexual activity with an adult male. Observations are reported in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th decades after the teenage years in these cases. The subjects were drawn from a pool of 200 similar cases and are the cases where the most data are available. Implications for professionals dealing with adolescent sexuality are made. Gaps between what is legally permitted and what is actual practice are pointed out. Need for further research and the areas for that research are implied. A case against premature labeling is made. München: A longitudinal study of nine cases covering a span of over thirty years which finds the sexual relationships to be non-harmful, with positive benefits in some cases.