[Graybeard]

Originally Posted by RascalPuff The KGO broadcast word being that the pro pedophile lobby is pressuring the American Psychiatric Association as well as congressional and senatorial lawmakers, to amend the existing laws, so as to categorize pedophilia as a disease rather than a crime.

Rascal .... What is a Pro-Pedophile Lobby?

eg: If a group of convicted and unreformed criminals formed a lobby group to make crime legal this would hardly carry weight and could not be defined as a 'Lobby'

If the lobby only consists of pedophiles the same applies ??

Organised Warfare, Organised pedophila ?? I am not much into conspiracy theories ... we all serve our own ends. I cannot imagine who would be in a lobby group such as you describe other than pedophiles ?

As well, individual case histories are a form of distortion, hi-lighting repugnant issues that play on emotion. These lead to knee jerk reactions that are not in the best interests of true reform in this area.

I am not competant, nor in any way qualified to make any judgements. But it does seem to me that these people take enormous risks to gratify themselves, risks of being detected that any other type of criminal would draw back from as being far too great.

This would seem to indicate that there are some driven abberrant underlying issues here. Perhaps mental development issues from childhood ? Nature or Nuture ?? I don't think this is too far fetched.

In Egypt, during the reign of the Pharoahs many judicial records exist of these crimes. Counselling seems to have formed their main line of rehabilitation.

I have no real understanding of these issues whatsoever, so any opinion formed by reading this post must be qualified on that understanding.

cool bananas ... greg