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AFA JournalCULTUREProf Says Don't Use "Emotionally Laden" Terms Like PedophiliaAFA Journal, January 2001 Edition Our school systems seem to be increasingly populated by teachers and professors who are more and more liberal in their views regarding everything from homosexuality to pedophilia. It seems it's no longer "in" to call a spade a spade. In Sexual Liberation's Last Frontier, Julia A. Ericksen, associate professor of sociology at Temple University, says the term "child-adult sex" should always be used to describe sexual encounters involving both adults and children. Such a term should be used rather than "emotionally laden terms like ‘pedophilia' or ‘child sexual abuse,'" she said. Her reasoning? Most researchers attempt "to measure the harm brought about by such activity," rather than questioning the "supposed long-term effects of such activity on the children involved." Ericksen continued by saying, "It is appropriate to undertake such research if only to wrest the terms of the debate from conservatives who have used pedophilia as a way to silence all attempts at sexual tolerance." When asked where pressure to change attitudes regarding pedophilia comes from, she said that gay liberation activists had "targeted the homophobia of sexologists" like herself in recent years. Ericksen also disagrees with stiff punishment for pedophiles. "As with the sodomite in the nineteenth century, so in the twentieth century the pedophile's punishments are so severe that most people guilty of the offense remain unpunished, protected by families which rightly fear the consequences of exposure," she said. LSN, 6/29/00 |
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