Not All Pedophiles Have Mental Disorder, American Psychiatric Association Says In New DSM

And here we go. The day the liberals shouted from the treetops would NEVER come when they removed homosexuality from being a mental illness despite not having a single scientific paper proving their case when they did. Here comes the other mental disorders all finding cover in the APA which is now as big of a laughing stock as the Nobel peace prize. How long before we have a court case in this country to legalize pedophile marriage?


In a move toward destigmatizing pedophilia, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), distinguishes between pedophiles who desire sex with children, and those who act on those desires.

The former group — those who want to have sex with children but whose desires are not distressing or harmful to themselves or others — is no longer classified as having a psychiatric condition in the updated DSM.

“The difference [from the last edition of the DSM] is, you’re not automatically saying that as soon as someone has a marked, unusual erotic interest that they have a mental disorder,” said Ray Blanchard, who cowrote the chapter on sexual disorders in the new DSM.

The change in the DSM, a kind of Bible among medical professionals, lawmakers, and drug and insurance companies, doesn’t just apply to pedophilia, but to several other deviant sexual desires listed in the manual. It represents “a subtle but crucial difference that makes it possible for an individual to engage in consensual atypical sexual behavior without inappropriately being labeled with a mental disorder,” explains the APA in its DSM-5 Paraphilic Disorders Fact Sheet.

Drip drip drip. All they need next is to find a child who claims they want to be with an adult and that anyone who doesn't agree is a pedophilephobe. Then the APA will have another "stigmatization" removed. Its coming folks just as many of us predicted. Its 1973 all over again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/dsm-pedophilia-mental-disorder-paraphilia_n_4184878.html

 

Not a "pedophobe" (that would be someone scared of children), you mean "pedophilephobe" (someone scared of pedophiles).

But yes, I expect pedophilia will need to find acceptance in a society that truly embraces all forms of sexual deviance, polygamy, incest and bestiality too.

 

Correct. My apologies.

Well said.

 

I am not a psychologist but I have always assumed that a mental disorder always has an associated harm. If one is attracted to kids yet does not act upon said attraction then who is harmed would become the question? I leave such questions to be debated by those more informed than I on the topic of mental health but say that if one acts upon their attraction then they are a clear danger to our society and I am glad that there are laws that penalize such aberrant behavior. Where things become less clear is what harm is caused by an 18 year old having sex with a 17 year old person? Should the 18 year old be labeled a sex offender for life?

 

I disagree with this. Whether you act on it or not, if you still have the attraction, you still have the disorder.

That said, I don't think people, who have the disorder but don't act on it, should be stigmitized from society on the same level as someone who does. I don't think they should be allowed to live/work near kids, but then again, you can't impose thesen restrictions on someone if they aren't open about it.

 

I would imagine if someone was wise enough not to act on their desires (and that includes not downloading or viewing illicit material), then they would be equally wise enough not to openly share their desires.

 

Yeah they've been testing this for years by occasionally publishing "pity and normalization" articles on pedophiles for a while now.

 

Except that's not what this is setting out to do at all. It has NOTHING to do with "liberals" or with your retarded partisan politics. It's a matter of understanding the mental condition of pedophiles from a scientific standpoint.

 

Just consider for a moment, to what extreme some liberals are willing to go for self glorification. Transgender childrens rights to use the WRONG bathroom / locker-room. Trannies represent what, .001% of children? See, SJW's need a cause ... any cause. Pedophillia, and bestiality are a logical progression ... if your an out of work SJW.

 

I remember when I was a teenager, we were all pedophiles then.

 

Well, there was a guy who published an article in Salon about his life and experience with this issue (non-offender). They are out there.

 

So it begins, this is the same route homosexuals used to normalize and garner public acceptance of their mental disorder. First have it stricken off the mental disorder list

 

Progressives are very keen on all things sexual. Overgrown teenagers, driven by the need to posture and snicker.

 

On the contrary, it has everything to do with Progressive Ideology .. wherever that falls on the political spectrum. This is nothing more than the perversity which too much comfort and safety brings. Our energies turn inward.

Edited to add: what I mean by that is that when you no longer have to fight off the wolf at the door, or the tribe next door, your very specific energies (which have evolved over millenia to be most effectively occupied by the aforementioned 'problems') turn bad. It's like a teenager who sits alone in his room for too long. Eventually he'll turn on himself, because there is no other stimulus. It can - and will - be called something grandiose (compassion, fair mindedness, etc etc) but it's all just lack of primary purpose.

 

This is the exact same route and strategy homosexuals used 40 years ago to garner public acceptance and normalization of their sexual perversion
So please don't hand us that bull crap

 

you was sexually attracted to prepubescent children when you was a teenager?

 

Well there is nothing you can do about it

 

Pedophilia is the mental illness that cause you to be sexually attracted to prepubescent children not 16 17 year old teenagers

 

There really isn't anything you can do about it

 

Yes there is rebut discredit and even conceder taking away the medical licenses of these sick liberal Psychiatrist that are arguing to take pedophilia off the list of mental illnesses
because you better nip it in the bud right now because if you don't 40 years from now it will become acceptable and you will be called pedophobic if you fight against it

 

Sex with a post pubescent person is NOT perverted in any way but is commonly seen as such because local societies dislike it.
Pre pubescent sex is clearly weird at best, and absolutely a mental illness or just an evil git who deserves to be hanged, preferably by the balls.
Caveat - the age of puberty ranges dramatically dependent on various factors so age is not much of an issue save for social norms common at the time and in the place you happen to be.
If you disagree, ask the Mosuo.

The Japanese have some very distasteful habits with young girls, but it is aimed at post pubescent kids and is normal in their society, even if I dislike it.

 

No. But we can raise our kids with plenty of practical purpose, so that they avoid the pitfalls of the underutilised mind.

 

Mental illness or not this doesn't mean it's suddenly going to be legal.

 

As I have shown here many times, the far left-leaning APA is working to "normalize" child molestors...

 

Another victory for the homosexual rights hoax; pedophilia is one of their most cherished fetishes; NAMBLA was a beloved member of their 'Rainbow' activist organizations right from the beginning, and now they can join in the Pride Parades again, proudly raping children on their float entries to the applause of their fans as they roll by.