{"id":1208913,"date":"2022-01-11T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208913"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:42","slug":"usa-today-pedophilia-is-merely-inappropriate-among-the-most-misunderstood-conditions-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-pedophilia-is-merely-inappropriate-among-the-most-misunderstood-conditions-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Pedophilia Is Merely \u2018Inappropriate,\u2019 \u2018Among The Most Misunderstood\u2019 Conditions In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-today-pedophilia-is-merely-inappropriate-among-the-most-misunderstood-conditions-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of the nation\u2019s most widely circulated newspapers ran an article on Monday that presented pedophilia as \u201camong the most misunderstood\u201d conditions in American society, diminishing pedophilia as \u201cinappropriate,\u201d while it promoted \u201cdestigmatizing the attraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPedophilia is viewed as among the most horrifying social ills. But scientists who study the sexual disorder say it is also among the most misunderstood,\u201d opens <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/public-keeps-getting-wrong-pedophilia-110208526.html\">the article<\/a>, by Alia E. Dastagir. \u201cResearchers who study pedophilia say the term describes an attraction, not an action, and using it interchangeably with \u2018abuse\u2019 fuels misperceptions\u201d about pedophiles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the experts compares pedophilia to any unguarded sexual impulse upon which society would frown. Anna Salter, a psychologist, says she begins her sessions by asking,&nbsp;\u201cHow many of you have ever had an inappropriate sexual thought?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article then favorably quotes Allyn Walker, formerly of Old Dominion University, who promoted \u201cdestigmatizing pedophilia\u201d and calling pedophiles \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/minor-attracted-person-inside-the-growing-effort-to-destigmatize-pedophilia\">minor-attracted persons<\/a>.\u201d Walker \u2014 a transgender individual who uses the pronouns they\/them \u2014 said the \u201cstigma\u201d against sexual attraction to minors \u201ccan actually lead to harm against children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodaylife\/status\/1480917525907095554\">lengthy thread<\/a> on Twitter by stating, \u201cWe think we know what a pedophile is. There\u2019s a lot we\u2019re misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen most of the public thinks of pedophilia, they assume it\u2019s synonymous with child sexual abuse. A pedophile is an adult who is sexually attracted to children, but not all pedophiles abuse kids, and some people who sexually abuse kids are not pedophiles,\u201d the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodaylife\/status\/1480917533150564366\">told<\/a> its readers via social media.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 20% of all girls and 5% of all boys experience childhood sexual abuse, <a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcrime.org\/child-sexual-abuse-statistics\/\">according<\/a> to the National Center for the Victims of Crime.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper subsequently deleted the Twitter thread. \u201cThe initial thread lacked the context that was within the story and we made the decision the pull down the entire thread,\u201d the paper wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The initial thread lacked the context that was within the story and we made the decision the pull down the entire thread.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA TODAY Life (@usatodaylife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodaylife\/status\/1480989658146213888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USA Today has deleted its entire pedophile apologia thread but don\u2019t let them memory hole this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vVYzdgsAsP\">pic.twitter.com\/vVYzdgsAsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuronMacintyre\/status\/1480973943087456263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Internet is forever a******s good try on the delete tho!\u201d wrote Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter. \u201cTo me (and probably anyone who has been watching) this is nothing more than the first step of trying to normalize this kind of behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Internet is forever assholes good try on the delete tho!<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY TRIES TO \u201cUNDERSTAND\u201d PEDOPHILES!!!<\/p>\n<p>To me (and probably anyone who has been watching) this is nothing more than the first step of trying to normalize this kind of behavior. \ud83e\udd2c\ud83e\udd2c\ud83e\udd2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vbJQUkfspZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/vbJQUkfspZ<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FKGMAvmcui\">pic.twitter.com\/FKGMAvmcui<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1480976148725223424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article, which appeared in USA Today\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2022\/01\/10\/pedophiles-pedophilia-sexual-disorder\/8768423002\/?gnt-cfr=1\">Health and Wellness<\/a>\u201d section, triggered a withering response from bewildered readers. \u201cF***ing what,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DisLikedObject\/status\/1480948182041436165\">asked<\/a> one. \u201cDid your editor approve of you writing this or did you just kind of slip this article in?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gobills_norcal\/status\/1480954003198332929\">inquired<\/a> another.<\/p>\n<p>Social scientists say the effort to erode the social taboo around pedophilia has been underway for years. \u201cI do not misunderstand pedophilia at all,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthinstitute.org\/about\/dr-morse\/\">Jennifer Roback Morse<\/a> \u2014 a former Yale economics professor who founded the pro-family <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthinstitute.org\/\">Ruth Institute<\/a> \u2014 told me. \u201cThe architects of the Sexual Revolution declared, without proof, that all sexual restraints were outmoded taboos that we were well rid of. But the sexual taboos protect the interests of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to eliminate traditional sexual mor\u00e9s, \u201cthe sexual revolutionaries had to redefine childhood. Instead of children being dependent on their parents, parents became the oppressors of children\u2019s sexual liberation. Instead of being innocent, children became sexual beings,\u201d added Morse. \u201cIn this way, pedophilia has been baked into the sexual revolution from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most notorious pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, took a similar tactic of presenting sexual attraction to minors with same-sex attraction. Epstein \u201csaid that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/epstein-compared-homosexuality-pedophilia-amanda-prestigiacomo\">according<\/a> to New York Times reporter James B. Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>As long ago as <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/biblestudy\/pedophilia-chic\">1996<\/a>, Mary Eberstadt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/weekly-standard\/pedophilia-chic-2623\">wrote<\/a> in an article titled \u201cPedophilia Chic\u201d that the \u201csocial consensus against the sexual exploitation of children . . . is apparently eroding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 1990s, feminists prodded colleges nationwide to host performances of Eve Ensler\u2019s play \u201cThe Vagina Monologues.\u201d The original script gives a positive portrayal of a 24-year-old lesbian seducing and statutorily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/02\/obama%E2%80%99s-economic-advisers-international-socialists-union-thugs-nbc-execs-soros-scholars-subprime-lenders-amnesty-shills-and-campaign-cronies\/\">raping a 13-year-old girl<\/a>. Subsequent edits raised the girl\u2019s age to 16.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of pedophilia interjected itself into last year\u2019s Virginia governor\u2019s race, as concerned parents noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joy-reid-asks-for-proof-porn-is-in-high-school-libraries-here-it-is\">books in public school libraries<\/a> depicted acts of homosexual pedophilia and\/or portrayed man-boy sexual interaction in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper that published Dastagir\u2019s article, USA Today, has increasingly blurred the line between reporting and editorializing. Late last year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nation\u2019s most widely circulated newspapers ran an article on Monday that presented pedophilia as \u201camong the most misunderstood\u201d conditions in American society, diminishing pedophilia as \u201cinappropriate,\u201d while it promoted \u201cdestigmatizing the attraction.\u201d \u201cPedophilia is viewed as among the most horrifying social ills. 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