The Adult Victim of Pedophilia and Sex Ed

 

By Rabbi David Eidensohn

 

A study recently published by the National Center of Disease Controls (from the American Journal of Public Health (02.01.02)) showed that  "men with a history of unwanted
sexual activity during childhood were significantly more likely than men without such history to report risky sexual behaviors, alcohol problems and drug use. Men who reported unwanted sexual activity during childhood were 6.79 times as likely as other men
to report unwanted sexual activity since age 13."

Why is this so? If a child has unwanted sex, or any unwanted experience, he should grow up fearing it, and protecting himself from it. Why then do people with unwanted sex as children grow up having even more unwanted sex? The report also found that "unwanted sexual activity during childhood were associated with a significant amount of the variation in frequency of unprotected sexual acts and number of partners." In other words, a person who has unwanted sex as a child grows up to risk his life with sex, and to have many partners; he does not protect himself from the multitude of partners, even though he knows he may die for his lack of caution. The research was done on 2,676 mostly Black and Latino men, and 25% of them reported unwanted sexual activity as children. What is the significance of this?

The paper did not go into the significance of this, but used the findings to promote counseling for those at risk for HIV, especially since one fourth of the men in these communities have unwanted sexual experiences as children. There is, however, a very important lesson in this study. Pedophilia destroys people. An adult who engages in unsafe sex knows that he, by having multiple sexual partners and engaging in unsafe sex, may very well contract terrible disease including HIV and AIDS. Nonetheless, he continues to do so. This proves that pedophilia destroys the mental immune system, the natural ability in all living things to seek protection from danger. Pedophilia even seems to produce in a person the need for self-destruction, the need to drink until function is impaired, and to have sex until the worst happens. Indeed, multiple partner sex is not an act of love; in a way it is also an act of self-negation.

The "safe schools" educators want all children to study homosexuality so that those who are inclined to homosexuality will not commit suicide. Will these same people now insist that children be taught about pedophilia? Not only are the secular forces that work for homosexual education in public schools not teaching the ills of pedophilia, the American Psychological Association is fighting the perception that pedophilia is wrong. Of course, there is a difference between unwanted sex and wanted pedophilia, but an adult who befriends a child and wants sex creates an ambivalent situation in the child, and it is hard to know how much sex is willing and how much is not. Those of us who feel that adult men should not sexually penetrate little children even if it is willing should surely do our part to make sure that public schools teach about pedophilia.

Another aspect of this study is the terrible wounding and destruction that takes place in a child's mind when confronted with unwanted sex. Many children have unpleasant things happen to them in their youth, such as divorced parents, dying parents, illnesses and accidents. Do all of these traumas produce drinking and suicidal behavior in adults? We would like a study on this, but intuitively, we would assume that sexuality is, for a child, a special form of trauma, especially as it affects future sexuality. Who knows what the impact of teaching a little child about sex is? Who knows what damage we produce in a tender child's sexual modality because of a class on fisting and penetration by another male. Those parents who allow their children to be led to the slaughter by the gay lobby should be reminded of this study, and that we will not really know the results of such education for years. When we find out, it will be too late for many people.

There is uproar in the world over genetically altered soybeans and other staples, even though there is no proof that it is unsafe. People instinctively fear tampering with nature. When it comes to their children, however, they allow the gays to teach perversities to growing children without fearing the consequences.

 

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