Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman: Politically Incorrect—scientifically Correct

Oellerich, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s12119-000-1027-3

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“…Little appears to have changed since then, although there has been a relatively recent review of such scientific studies of normal childhood sexual behaviour as have been conducted (de Graaf and Rademakers 2011). What we do have evidence for in abundance is that research into child sexuality has become so controversial that it is almost impossible to conduct, and that this work tends to be marginalised or actively censored (Hubbard and Verstraete 2013;Lilienfeld 2002;Oellerich 2000;Rind et al 2000). Indeed, the very concept of "child sexuality" is increasingly presented as an oxymoron (Angelides 2004).…”

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Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

O’Carroll

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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Malón (Arch Sexual Behav 44(4): [1071][1072][1073][1074][1075][1076][1077][1078][1079][1080][1081][1082][1083] 2015) concluded that the usual arguments against sexual relationships between adults and prepubertal children are inadequate to rule out the moral permissibility of such behaviour in all circumstances. Malón (Sex Cult 21(1):247-269, 2017) applied virtue ethics in an attempt to remedy the postulated deficiency. The present paper challenges the virtue ethics approach taken in the second of Malón's articles by: (1) contesting the view that sex is an exceptional aspect of morality, to which a virtue approach needs to be applied; (2) contesting the view that virtue ethics succeed, where other arguments fail, against the moral admissibility of child-adult sexual relations; (3) proposing that such relations can be seen as virtuous in the context of an alternative view of what constitutes virtue.

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Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

O’Carroll

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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“…To question this hypothesis is heretical anathema, it has evolved into more of a quasi-religious dogma than a scientific hypothesis subject to revision. The case of Rind et al, where for the first time the U.S. Congress condemned a scientific investigation, is illustrative of this assumed omnipotence in the Western world and most especially in the United States (Lilienfeld, 2002a, b;Mirkin, 2000;Oellerich, 2000;Rind, Bauserman, & Tromovitch, 2000;Wakefield, 2006a). These actions suggest that the CSA hypothesis, like the hypothesis of masturbation that preceded it, is largely a question of social and moral perception (Furedi, 2002;Malón, 2004), whose definitive resolution will not so much depend exclusively on scientific data, but on a major change in cultural paradigms regarding the erotic dimensions of human nature.…”

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Onanism and Child Sexual Abuse: A Comparative Study of Two Hypotheses

Malón

2009

Arch Sex Behav

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For some decades now in the West, there has been a growing social anxiety with regard to a phenomenon which has become known as child sexual abuse (CSA). This anxiety is fed by scientific theories whose cornerstone is the assessment of these experiences as necessarily harmful, due to their presumed serious consequences for the present and future lives of the minors involved in them. This principle, widely held by experts and laypersons alike, was also part and parcel of the danger presumably posed by Onanism, a phenomenon which occupied a similar position in society and medical science in the West during the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. The present work is a comparative review of these two hypotheses and the central objective was to compare the evolution and fundamental elements of the two hypotheses in light of what history tells us about Onanism theory. This comparative analysis will allow a critical look at the assumptions of the CSA hypothesis in order to make evident the similarities to the conceptual model that enabled the Onanism hypothesis in the past.

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“…To reiterate, to recognize and study the possible participation of the child, even if it includes active collaboration or even initiation, in no way suggests that the child is responsible for what has happened. But questioning what might be the evasion of any moral implications does not mean having to renounce studying the experiences of children where there is clearly voluntary participation from the child and a relationship that he feels is positive, as was demanded by the U.S. congressional ''denunciation'' of Rind et al (1998), a political incursion into science which created a firestorm of controversy (Lilienfeld, 2002;Mirkin, 2000;Oellerich, 2000;Rind, Bauserman, & Tromovitch, 2000; for opposing views, see Ondersma et al, 2001;Spiegel 2000). This does not necessarily mean, from this author's point of view, that these relationships should be legitimized or legalized; there are many elements in this complex question that have not been addressed adequately beyond questionable dogmas of universal ''trauma,'' ''innocence,'' and ''passivity'' on the part of the minors involved.…”

Section: A Different Concept Of Childhoodmentioning

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The “Participating Victim” in the Study of Erotic Experiences Between Children and Adults: An Historical Analysis

Malón

2009

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During the 20th century, erotic experiences between minors and adults occupied a position of increasing interest, both public as well as scientific. In this area of research, one of the most notable evolutions in how these experiences are treated has been the progressive disappearance and/or the intense redefinition of what earlier researchers called "participating victims," i.e., minors apparently interested in accepting and/or sustaining these relationships. The present work, through a comparative analysis of the literature, seeks to substantiate this transformation during the second third of the 20th century. It will also argue that this evolution can be fundamentally explained in terms of the intense emotional, moral, and ideological importance that is ascribed to these experiences in the rise of the current victimological paradigm. Finally, this study endeavors to contribute to the understanding of childhood and the scientific study of child sexuality as well as of these experiences with adults.

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Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman: Politically Incorrect—scientifically Correct

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

Onanism and Child Sexual Abuse: A Comparative Study of Two Hypotheses

The “Participating Victim” in the Study of Erotic Experiences Between Children and Adults: An Historical Analysis

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