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Lowenthal, Michael; The boy-lover next door The author interviews Bill Andriette, the longtime NAMBLA spokesperson -- and past editor of the NAMBLA Bulletin. ... NAMBLA -- as the only group in America explicitly devoted to the rights of adults sexually attracted to youth -- is a constant target of condemnation. The organization has been under FBI surveillance for years (although it has never been found in violation of any law). Its meetings have been disrupted by death-threat-shouting picketers. ... In 1994, when Jesse Helms learned that NAMBLA was a member of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), which in turn held "consultative status" at the United Nations, he proposed a bill to cut all US funding for the UN unless NAMBLA was expelled ... When the ILGA controversy erupted, the leaders of virtually every gay and lesbian group in the county, as well as gay politicians such as US Representative Barney Frank, publicly called for NAMBLA's ouster. ... The group's m.o. has thus been somewhat schizophrenic: - desperately seeking legitimacy and acceptance, while at the same time - seeming to do everything it can to preclude attainment of these objectives. ... But Bill Andriette -- a generation younger than the gay liberationists who founded the organization -- is quietly trying to change that. ... he is willing to retire some of the loonier manifestos ... Bill Andriette is the new face of NAMBLA. Rather than insisting on the complete abolishment of age-of-consent laws, for example, he focuses on middle-ground positions. ... When Andriette offers these alternatives, NAMBLA's stance seems more palatable: a reality-based approach at reforming an outmoded system of intrusive laws. Radow, Roy; Quotes - What People Are Saying About NAMBLA And Man/Boy Love A selection of positive opinions of 'the public' about NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. ... "If we accepted sexual behaviour between children and adults, we would be far more able to protect our children from abuse and exploitation than we are now." ... ... "Passion for helping the child is so strong in pedophile relations that even the police acknowledge it." ... ... ""Boy-lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers are the only people offering a hand to help young women and men cross the difficult terrain between straight society and the gay community. They are not child molesters." ... ... "If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way." ... Ley, David, & et al; No such thing as porn “addiction,” researchers say, Feb 12 2014 Review article highlights lack of strong research about addictive nature of viewing sexual images: Ley, D. et al. (2014). The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Review of the “Pornography Addiction” Model- in: Current Sexual Health Reports. Journalists and psychologists are quick to describe someone as being a porn “addict,” yet there’s no strong scientific research that shows such addictions actually exists. ... Ley and his team believe that the positive benefits attached to viewing such images do not make it problematic de facto. ... It provides a legal outlet for illegal sexual behaviors or desires, and its consumption or availability has been associated with a decrease in sex offenses, especially child molestation. Jenkins, Henry; The Sensuous Child: Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution; Children's Culture, Oct 26 2005 In this essay, I want to look more closely at the social context which led, for a short while, towards a loosening of the "rules" governing sexual contact between children and adults, a changing understanding of children's erotic life and its place within the home. ... This essay will trace [the] shifting conception of children's minds and bodies through a close examination of pre- and post-war child rearing guides. Specifically, I want to explore how conceptions of childhood sensuality and bodily pleasure emerge as positive forces in the post-war literature. Balance, Counter; North American Rumble - and How to Avoid It On 20 April 1999 two Unites States teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, shot thirteen fellow students and then themselves at their high school in Littleton, Colorado. It was their aim to kill more people, but that did not happen. There have been more school shootings, a sad list - North American rumble. Counter Balance has gathered views on this subject. We pose the questions: [....] Our main source is not what many school principals, police officers or politicians have said about it, but what youngsters themselves have said about this issue. It's not a dangerous subculture, but the suppression of deviant subcultures, which is the problem. Jenkins, Henry; Lessons from Littleton: What Congress does not want to hear about youth and media ... Several weeks after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the United States Senate ... launched a series of hearings ...on the "marketing of violent entertainment to children." ... The senators were feeding a "cultural war" which was more and more focused on teenagers. ... "We need Goth control, not gun control." ... A more careful analysis would read video games as one cultural influence among many, as having different degrees of impact on different children, and as not sufficient in and of themselves to provoke an otherwise healthy and well-adjusted child to engage in acts of violence. ... Most children are not at risk from the media they consume. Parents, not governments, are in the best position to know what kinds of culture their children should consume. ... Media effects research has had little to say about why children are drawn towards violent entertainment, ... Humanistic research, on the other hand, offers useful tools for understanding why children find media violence attractive and meaningful. ... The author suggests a more constructive response to these issues. (https site) Library 4. [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]