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Sex abuse is the latest expression of absolutism
Salivating over paedophilia
Brian Rothery
The excellent journalist Mike Hume, editor of Spiked. has an interesting article about how we salivate over child sex abuse in the Timesonline. While I normally agree with most of what Mike Hume writes, I don’t agree with this particular assessment of the paedophilia obsession.
He begins it with an amusing summary of the day’s headline news, where a ‘celebrity-paedophile’ is released from prison, while a not yet named as a ‘paedophile celebrity’ is on trial for putting his fingers into a boy’s underpants. Following these
leading stories are an earthquake and a general election.
He goes on to say that our culture appears more obsessed with paedophilia than with football and celebrity, which explains why there is no bigger story than Michael Jackson’s celebrity plus child abuse story. During the week that Hume wrote this, another big story in the UK was the release from prison of Jonathan King, convicted of molesting boys. Hume wrote: “All of the gross salivating over the King and Jackson cases is a symptom of a deeper malaise. There are a few perverts with an unhealthy interest in our children. But many more normal people seem to have a morbid fascination with child abuse these days.”
I believe that even the bravest journalists turn away from the truth at this stage. He goes on to question the reason for the ‘malaise’ of the morbid fascination, and this is what he suggests: “There is nothing to suggest that paedophilia has become more commonplace. Instead, it is as if the spectre of the paedophile has been turned into a focus for all of our fears and anxieties.”
I agree with the second half, but only on the basis that it, in turn, is only part of the reason. As for the first part, I believe that there is a huge increase in the public interest in child sexuality, certainly in ‘under-the-legal-age’ child sexuality, without this necessarily being translated into any significant increase in overt actions with underaged persons. For example, the criminalization and prohibition of images of child nudity and child erotica have increased their value enormously, and fuelled the interest in the genre. Even women have begun to publish books on the subject that challenge current perceptions. See our Bookstore.
Coming now to Hume’s second assumption that ‘it is as if the spectre of the paedophile has been turned into a focus for all of our fears and anxieties’, there is little doubt in my mind that the paedophile has in the words of US writer David Steinberg become the ‘designated pervert’ and the child the holy object. The paedophile, who incidentally is a modern creation that will not be found in older dictionaries, has no doubt taken over from the Jew, the Commie and the witch, but is not just a focus for all our fears and anxieties. Thanks to the child activists and the other opportunists and alarmists whom Hume rightfully attacks, he, the pervert, is actually now within us. Already a few journalists are noting with distress how we are all seeing the world through the eyes of the paedophile. The distress may be less to do with a focus for all our fears than with the need to transform into hatred of another any thought that we may indeed find some aspects of child sexuality fascinating. Mike Hume can hardly use the expression ‘salivating’ in connection with our fascination with these cases and not go on to examine what we might be salivating about.
It goes further. Child sexuality, in the form of the expression of sexual inclinations between children, is still being resisted by child rights activists and social workers and branded as ‘inappropriate touching’, ironically criminalizing the very children that those professions are claiming to protect. But with a new increase in state care in some Western countries, including state control of the fostering industry, itself fuelled by the fear of false allegations stopping normal families from fostering troublesome children, the reality of sexual activity between certain institutionalized children is becoming too obvious to ignore, especially in some US states and in Sweden. If the Swedish model of the state control of human sexuality, based in turn on the Nazi model, continues to develop or is widely copied, the ‘proper control’ of child sexuality itself will be next. It will not be in the hands of so-called paedophiles but in those of trained social workers. Some of us may then start salivating over what the social workers are allowed to do.
Sex abuse
Age of consent - Gerald's story.
A 21st century tragedy
'Speed assaults’ on children
Parents, your children are now truly at risk
The Australian inquiry
Death penalty for sex acts in Georgia
The atrocities of consensual sex
Jessie and Tyler - did the dog do it?
His art became his life
Reflections on Thomas O’Carroll
Salivating over paedophilia
Another front is opening up
God help human sexuality!
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