Tavistock Gender Clinic Lead Psychologist Supports Ageplay, Furries
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"Dr. Christina Richards, the Lead Psychologist and Head of Psychology at the heavily criticized London Gender Identity Clinic, is responsible for a number of publications which seek to rebrand extreme fetishes as “further sexualities."
In 2013, Richards, a male who identifies as a woman, co-authored a professional guide on sexuality and gender, in collaboration with Meg John Barker, a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University. In the writing, Richards places extreme and violent sexual practices on the same spectrum as heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.
In the guide Richards introduces ageplay, which involves “an adult identifying as a baby or young child, and is also known as adult baby/diaper lover (ABDL) or infantilism. There may be a sexual aspect… associated with humiliation.”
Richards goes on to describe how adults who engage in ‘ageplay’ accumulate various objects and apparel associated with childhood, including children’s clothing. Often one adult will roleplay as being any age from infancy to teenage years, while another adult participates in a dominant sexual role...
"Richards’ nonchalant attitude towards the ageplay fetish betrays the fact it is sometimes associated with pedophilia. According to Kevin Hsu and J. Michael Bailey, autopedophilia is a phenomenon in which a person becomes aroused at the thought of themselves as a child.
Their 2016 research on the phenomenon published in Psychological Science found that “autopedophilia was common among pedohebephilic participants: 49.1% reported feeling at least mildly sexually aroused when they imagine being a child or having a child’s body.”"