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November 1--Dr. Mogul informed us at the rally what the American Psychiatric Association says about pedophilia, but she was wrong.

It was impossible to know what the panelists meant when they kept saying, "We all hate pedophilia." It’s very reassuring to hear that; but in order to have an intelligent discussion, they would have to define the term.

Dr. Mogul’s primary reason to be at the rally was to protect the American Psychiatric Association of which she is a Trustee.

Under their definition of pedophilia, only children who are 13 years and younger are protected. Any teenager who is 14 years or older is not protected.

Therefore, if a 50-year-old man has sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy, that is not pedophilia under the rules of the psychiatrists as to what is a mental disorder. However, the psychiatrists do not write the law. They only decide if a person is mentally ill.

Dr. Mogul took great pride in the fact that the law is very strict about pedophilia, but the psychiatrists cannot take credit for that because they have nothing to do with it. It is the role of the legislature to define sexual molestation. (In Massachusetts, any sexual relations with a child under 16 years is statutory rape, regardless of whether or not it is consensual.) 

Psychiatrists are also Normalizing Pedophilia

The doctor was upset because in addition to reporting the news about the psychologists, we reported that the American Psychiatric Association may also be normalizing pedophilia.

No one disputes that they have said for years that sexual relations with a 14-year-old is not pedophilia. Therefore, it would be difficult for them to mount any strenuous objection to lowering the age of consent to that age or lower.

How about below that age? We reported in our mailing that the psychiatrists have also changed the rules about pedophilia for children who are 13 years or younger. That is what upset Dr. Mogul. She had to defend her organization. We had written in the mailing:

"Their association, the American Psychiatric Association, very quietly changed its diagnostic manual a few years back so that a person no longer has a ‘disorder’ simply because he molests children (who are 13 years or younger).

"To be diagnosed as ‘disordered,’ the psychiatrists will look to the psyche of the adult. If the adult does not feel anxious about the relationship with the child or if he is not impaired in his work or social relationships, then he has no ‘disorder.’" We then continued:

"The psychiatrists have attempted to backtrack and to confuse journalists. They have prepared a ‘Fact Sheet’ for journalists which presents an entirely different picture from the official manual. They tell journalists that any adult who has sex with children is ‘by definition’ considered to be a pedophile. But that is not what the official manual says. In order for any journalist to understand the truth behind this ‘Fact Sheet,’ he will have to be very sophisticated. It is a very professional attempt at obfuscation."

We are still unable to determine what they mean when they say that such a person is a pedophile "by definition." If Dr. Mogul will advise where that "definition" can be found, we would like to refer to it. The truth is that there is no such "definition" anywhere except in their imagination. They’re trying to "cover" themselves. The purpose of the manual of disorders is to provide the official ‘definition.’

It is apparent that Dr. Mogul was not happy with us, and she sent a letter to the editor of the Newton Tab in which she said our mailing was "outrageous" and "scurrilous." She said, "Most adults who have sexual encounters with children meet all three criteria for the diagnosis of pedophilia." That is clearly not true because most of them do not feel remorse nor they are hampered in their functions.

This is all spelled out very clearly in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition on page 527.

At the rally, Dr. Mogul attempted to explain the change in their manual by saying that all of the sexual disorders in the entire manual had been changed to require that the person have remorse or be dysfunctional. But what does that prove? Nobody made them change all or any of them. It was entirely their decision to do so.

Dr. Mogul Was Wrong On Almost Everything

Dr. Mogul was the only one on the panel who talked at all about pedophilia, and she was incorrect on almost everything she said.

The highlight of the evening was her assurance that homosexuals are not involved in pedophilia. She stated:

"There is no evidence as far as I know that pedophilia is at all more common among men who have homosexual sexual preference than it is among heterosexual men.

And she reiterated later:

"There have been some studies of that, and none of them have shown a greater prevalence among homosexuals than among heterosexuals, so misinformation is a good way to stir up fear… they’re certainly at no greater risk from gays as from heterosexuals."

She was totally stunned when a citizen asked her to explain that if homosexuals are only 3% of the population and commit 30% of the molestation, doesn’t that mean that a homosexual is ten times more likely to be a pedophile?

She was stunned into total silence for about eight seconds until Rev. Malmberg finally broke in and started talking about something else.

She never did answer the question.

Nothing Wrong with Mailing

When answering a resident’s question, "Is the truth hate mail?" she replied that she couldn’t point to anything in the mailing that was incorrect, but if you looked at it as a whole it was wrong.

"My main objection to it was that it strung together some things that each in itself may not be wrong, but if you string it together the way it’s strung together in this, it’s totally wrong." 

She also said that the majority of pedophilia is father-daughter incest, which was inaccurate. The experts say that 80% of pedophilia is adult males on boys inasmuch as pedophiles who are homosexuals interact with many more children than do heterosexual pedophiles."
 

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