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Dr James Cantor - anti-transing children, pro-paedophilia as valid sexuality

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OrchidInTheSun · 23/09/2019 17:39

Cantor is a psychologist who specialises in paraphilias. He is fiercely against transing children and has co- authored with Blanchard. So far so good.

However, he also believes that paedophilia is caused by a neurological developmental disorder and that it is unethical if we don't add the P to the LGBT as a valid sexuality.

I think this is a deeply dodgy strategy for dealing with paedophiles as a society because any attempt to frame it within the bounds of normal sexual development legitimises it. It will be leveraged by queer theorists who want to teach children that sex between children and adults is fine and dandy.

This is his tweet from earlier today

Dr James Cantor - anti-transing children, pro-paedophilia as valid sexuality
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hooowl · 23/09/2019 18:22

I studied paedophilia many years ago. Iirc there is some truth in it having similarities to the other sexual orientations, and I'm not sure it's something that they have much choice over. This IN NO WAY means it should be accepted as legal or permissible in any way whatsoever.

BeMoreMagdalen · 23/09/2019 18:18

Fucking fuck off. Growing up knowing I was sexually attracted to other females was damned hard in a society that is based around male/female pairings. It's made me aware that what we call 'normal' is not a face value thing.

But we understand the power differential between adult and child is nothing like the balance between two consenting adults, be they the same or different sexes. It is always abuse, and I will never, ever, ever consider paedophilia as anything other than the most disgusting perversion, and I don't care how 'anti trans ideology' a pro-paedophile campaigner is, that is my fucking red line. Big fat fucking no way.

HandsOffMyRights · 23/09/2019 18:10

A deeply dodgy strategy indeed.

ErrolTheDragon · 23/09/2019 18:05

However, he also believes that paedophilia is caused by a neurological developmental disorder and that it is unethical if we don't add the P to the LGBT as a valid sexuality.

Maybe a tendency to paedophilia can be caused in that way. Maybe tendencies to being a serial killer or rapist are too. That doesn't mean acting on those tendencies can ever be legal.

Children can't give consent. So whether the P 'sexuality' is deemed 'valid' by a few academics, it's never going to be legal or acceptable.

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