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SanDiegoAtheist · 04-03-2002, 02:10 PM

Yes, it's true...the religious right now wants to have a secular public university fire it's officials who approved for publishing a researched, peer-reviewed work on problems with how we, as a society, educate our children on sexuality.

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"The action is so grievous and so irresponsible that I felt they relinquished their right to academic freedom," said Knight, who has described the book as "very evil."

Full article here:

<a href="http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_1n3youth.html" target="_blank">New book on child sexuality denounced as 'evil' by some</a>

Hum ho...I wonder how much of the OT these loons have actually read.

Cheers,

The San Diego Atheist

(edited before the grammar police come a knockin)

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hezekiah jones · 04-03-2002, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by SanDiegoAtheist:
Hum ho...I wonder how much of the OT these loons have actually read.

I wonder how much of Levine's book they've read - it hasn't been published!

What's even worse, that manifestly evil Clinton appointee, Joceylyn Elders, <a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/levine_harmful.html" target="_blank">wrote the forward</a>.

Toto · 04-03-2002, 05:25 PM

<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/daily/02/sex_book.htm" target="_blank">Here's why they're upset</a>:

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Levine said much of the furor over her book stems from an interview she gave last month to Newhouse News Service, amid the Roman Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal. Newhouse quoted her as saying a sexual relationship between a priest and a youth "conceivably" could be positive.

Levine said this week that she disapproves of any sexual relationship between a youth and an authority figure, whether a parent, teacher or priest. However, she believes teen-agers deserve more respect for the choices they make in consensual affairs, and suggests that America's age-of-consent laws can sometimes lead to excessive punishment.

She cites the Dutch age-of-consent law as a "good model" -- it permits sex between an adult and a young person between 12 and 16 if the young person consents. Prosecutions for coercive sex may be sought by the young person or the youth's parents.

"Teens often seek out sex with older people, and they do so for understandable reasons: an older person makes them feel sexy and grown-up, protected and special," writes Levine, who had an affair with an adult when she was a minor

<a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/384/2126968.html" target="_blank">Newhouse interview: Some in mainstream contend certain cases of adult-minor sex should be acceptable</a>

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In an interview, the book's author, journalist Judith Levine, praised the Rind study as evidence that "doesn't line up with the ideology that it's always harmful for kids to have sexual relationships with adults."

She said the pedophilia among Roman Catholic priests is complicated to analyze, because it's almost always secret, considered forbidden and involves an authority figure.

She added, however, that, "yes, conceivably, absolutely" a boy's sexual experience with a priest could be positive.

"When I was a minor, I had sex with an adult," she said. "He was one of my first lovers. My heart was broken, but my heart was broken by a lot of boys, too. I'd say on balance that it was a perfectly good experience."

But I read about teenagers who claim to have been traumatized by even consensual sex with an adult. Is this just puritanical religious right propaganda?

crackrabbit · 04-03-2002, 06:58 PM

Eidited because I just wasn't able to articulate what I was trying to say.

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crackrabbit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cambridge, MA Posts: 79	Eidited because I just wasn't able to articulate what I was trying to say. [ April 03, 2002: Message edited by: Melly ]</p>

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