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

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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

This is from a 2018 Commons Select Committee paper on the future of Policing.
I have just c and p this relevant bit-will try and link to doc.

83.The distribution, dissemination and downloading of indecent images of children (IIOC) accounts for a significant proportion of the police and NCA workload from CSA, and has been described by the NPSCC as a “social emergency”.126 The UK is reportedly the third-largest global consumer of child abuse images, behind the USA and Canada,127 and Chief Constable Bailey told us that the police are “arresting getting on towards 450 men every month and safeguarding almost 700 children” in relation to IIOC alone.128 Between December 2010 and 2017, there was an 1,239% increase in the total number of industry referrals received by the NCA (for example, IIOC found by internet companies on their platforms), and a 102% increase in the number of public reports. This includes criminal behaviour online, as well as indecent images.129

84.As part of our data collection exercise, we asked forces for figures on the number of IIOC incidents recorded locally in the year ending March 2018, as well as the four years previously. When City of London Police’s nominal figures were eliminated, the other forces reported an average increase of 508% between 2013–14 and 2017–18, including notable increases of 1,544% in Durham, 1,954% in Northamptonshire (increasing from 13 to 267), and 916% in Cleveland. Across all forces, the total number of recorded IIOC incidents increased by 424%.

85.Very little is known about the characteristics of online CSA offenders—or about child sex offenders more broadly—but research suggests that between 16% and 50% will go on to commit contact offences,130,131 raising serious questions about the risk to children if CSA offenders continue to have contact with children, either in the family, at work, or as a result of roles within the community. Even these figures may not be reliable, however: Cassandra Harrison told us that research on the relationship between IIOC and contact offending had been contested.132 Regardless of subsequent offending behaviour, it is clear that IIOC offences are serious forms of child abuse in their own right.

Police units who are charged with catching abusers take prosecuting them pretty seriously AFAIK. Don't forget, the police see this shit first hand. They are under no illusions about who these scumbags are.

So be the change you want to see

Excellent point. Thank you.

Or c. this bloke doesn't know what 'sexual orientation' means.

He mentions "using causes-no-harm to distinguish right from wrong."

And who gets to determine whether harm has been caused? Will it be the child victims who are taught that their abuser's sexuality is healthy and valid? Thought not.

Compulsory heterosexuality training causes harm. Normalising and celebrating paedophiles causes harm.

Breaking the taboos around sexual activity with children causes harm.

Cantor could do to look at his own behaviour here. He's causing harm by championing the rights of males who have a sexual interest in prepubescent females. Which means his behaviour is wrong.

Even if a pedophile never crosses the line into forms of sexual abuse of the kind that are in theory able to be prosecuted I'd argue that the grooming behavior they exhibit is a harm in itself. Both in terms of any children unfortunate enough to be around them and of the adults that they may groom into displaying the sort of attitudes that Cantor is showing here.