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Levine's Study on Children and Sex A few years back, I reported that the American Psychological Association published an article which claimed in some cases adult-child sex wasn't harmful...After intense criticism, the American Psychological Association came out, and denied that their research does support the idea of adult-child sex... Unlike the denial of the American Psychological Association, a new book openly promotes the idea, it's called, "Not Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Kids from Sex" written by Judith Levine, a feminist writer... Ms Levine's book drew sharp criticism, more so than she expected...In a desperate attempt to explain herself in light of the criticism, she states and I quote, "My book is not about intergenerational sex," I am not endorsing sex abuse of children. Quite the contrary. It was my hope that the book would allow parents and other adults to talk realistically about issues of kids and sexuality. Instead, there is an effort to suppress the book and stop that conversation." The criticism didn't stop there, Ms Levine came under fire from an article published last March in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune which quoted her as saying a boy's sexual experience with a Priest conceivably could be good...Again, Ms Levine went on the defense in light of the criticism, claiming she was misunderstood, and said that she didn't believe in priests having sex with boys...But in a telephone interview Ms Levine advocates some research has shown it to be positive in some cases... So basically Ms Levine is pointing the finger at certain research not herself...She claims to have written this book which favors adult-child sex, in an attempt to get parents talking about sex to their children...Not only that, but Ms Levine claims her book would save lives, because she believes abstinence-only sex education and a reluctance by parents to recognize their children's sexuality leave youths vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease such as AIDS and to sexual abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth...Ms Levine is clearly using this very research which promotes legitimization of adult-child sex, for profit reasons only, while attempting to teach parents to give credit to their children when they do engage in the sinful act. What she fails to tell people in her book, and I want to make this as clear to you, as I possibly can because it's obvious Ms Levine, has no concern for this issue, and that is, children can still obtain Aids, and die, or still can obtain other sexually transmitted diseases using the safe sex method...It's not 100 percent effective. That's from a medical standpoint, but from a Biblical standpoint, no child should engage in sexual activity especially with other adults. If Ms Levine was truly concerned for the children, certainly she would be worried about the weakness of her version of sex education... This book also
endorses
a 1990 Dutch law which lowered the age of consent to 12...Former
Surgeon General
of the Clinton administration, Dr. Joycelyn Elders also
endorsed the Dutch
law...and is featured in the book. Joycelyn Elders appeared on
FOX News Channel�s �Hannity and Colmes� and the �O�Reilly Factor� to discuss the
foreword she wrote for Judith Levine�s controversial book and also on the
O�Reilly factor...On those two shows, Joycelyn Elders claimed adult touching a
child in a sexual way shouldn't be considered pedophilia, in every case. She
told Alan Colmes that children having sexual encounters with adults may not have
harmful effects. Ms Levine wasn't the only one who came under fire for this study, the publishers came under fire as well but this didn't discourage the printing of this particular book...The University of Minnesota Press on April 10, 2002, ordered 10,000 more copies of the book as Ms Levine's book became 26th in amazon.com best seller list... Oh what a wicked world in which we live as there are people in this world, who are trying to legitimize a sin, and trying to make a profit doing it...May we pray for people like Ms Levine and Joycelyn Elders who are misguided, and ask the Lord to open up her heart according to His Will for true guidance which is the Gospel of Christ...
Feedback 2002
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