‘Gawker’ runs pedophilia sympathy piece

A popular online magazine ran an editorial today which is getting a lot of attention. The article was published on Gawker under the science category, titled “Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children”.

The article seeks to look at pedophilia objectively, asking the philosophical and scientific question — is pedophilia an act of evil or merely a sexual orientation and preference? Shockingly, the article makes the case for the latter. It presents pedophilia as benign and uncontrollable as liking brunettes, tall men or athletic builds. It also makes the highly controversial and perhaps, highly dangerous suggestion that pedophilia and pedophiles are unfairly persecuted.

For many years, pedophile advocates have organized in such a way that they have their own unique lobbyist groups who work to minimize pedophilic behavior as benign while organizing public relations campaigns to mitigate the seriousness of prepubescent attraction.

From the Gawker article:

“Imagine a world in which admitting your attraction to busty women or tall men led to alienation, jail time, or your murder. Older gay men can probably remember such an era, but nowadays most sexual appetites have been mainstreamed to the point of banality. Pedophiles, for obvious reasons, don’t enjoy the same kind of tolerance, and thus it seems as if they may be locked forever in a sexual prison from the moment they’re born.”

The article goes on to validate pedophilia as a sort of physical or mental disability, much like early onset dementia. Much of this research has been done in Canada, where researchers are trying to to pinpoint its origin, pathology and potential treatment of symptoms. Gawker cites Dr. James Cantor, Head of Research in the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada, whom they say has been trying to better “understand” pedophiles for the last 12 years.

Cantor’s research so far has led him to believe that pedophilia is a brain disorder, affecting the frontol temporal lobes. Also of note, a much higher amount of pedophiles are left handed compared to the general population. Cantor says, ”The only other groups that have rates of non-right-handedness that are that high are schizophrenics, people with bipolar disorder, people with autism.”

Again, the information provided in the article has a gentle persuasion towards sympathy instead of what most Americans think of pedophilia, as something completely awful, heinous and WRONG.

Further illustrations of a pedophiles trials and tribulations in life, Gawker quotes Dan Savage, a sex advice columnists who tells the story of a pedophile who never acted on his urges and how lonely of a place that is for people (mostly men) who can’t help but be attracted to children. One such pedophile said while people always say to other people, there is somebody out there for you — for the pedophile, “I walk around every awful day of my life knowing that there is no one out there for me.”

The author, Cord Jefferson, claims to be a progressive looking to welcome pedophiles into the ranks and protections of other minorities.

Jefferson says:

“The old adage is that the true mark of a society is how it treats the weakest in its ranks. Blacks, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, and others are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they’re also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to Earth, he’d embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers, and, yes, the pedophiles. As a self-professed “progressive,” when I think of the world I’d like to live in, I like to imagine that one day I’d be OK with a man like Terry moving next door to me and my children.”

Terry was a gentlemen Cord started out saying was a meth head who initiated sexual contact with his young 7-year-old niece, played porn videos for her and masturbated in front of her but apparently was a good guy because he chose not to have intercourse with her or something like that.

While Cord has responded to comments saying that nobody is saying that pedophiles should be allowed to have sex with children, it’s hard to argue that the editorial piece doesn’t have an agenda — to normalize and legitmize pedophilia as a sexual orientation and disability rather than a perversion and crime.

Pedophiles are on a mission to normalize their behavior, decriminalize it and get the word out that they are not monsters but burdened with a no-fault preference they were born with,  similar to any other sexual orientation. They want you to believe its just like being gay or straight, only they like babies, toddler and children. They believe the more they say it, the more Americans will become desensitized to such a suggestion and the tide will turn in their favor. Pedophiles systematically try to get into positions of authority and spread the word through pop culture and gentle propaganda, to get Americans to view them differently.

Where will your compassion lie? Will it be at the hands of grown man who wants to have sex with an innocent child or the children themselves?

Who are the real victims here?

A civilized society should be ashamed to have to ask the question. We are only as good of a society as how we treat our children.

You can go here to read the piece for yourself.

Furthermore, there is no evidence that therapy or drugs help to curb child sex predatory behavior.

This piece needs to be taken down. They won’t offend anybody by doing so, except pedophiles, or should I say, those with pedophilia desires? We wouldn’t want those who dig “pedophilia” to feel bad, right?