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The Adult Victim of Pedophilia and Sex Ed |
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Rabbi David Eidensohn |
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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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