{"id":1192,"date":"2014-08-20T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2014-08-19T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:36:49","slug":"pedophilia-pederasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/08\/pedophilia-pederasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedophilia, pederasty and homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/c7f2d217745227a0b98930f00f9f8d99\/tumblr_nakxmxS4SH1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Religionists intend to morally equate homosexuality with pedophilia, they say both are examples of bestiality and, therefore, should be banned. As usual, they&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Homosexuality is a sexual preference<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s as morally valid as heterosexual and bisexual preferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedophilia\">Pedophilia<\/a> is a paraphilia<\/strong> and a  psychological disorder \u2014 sexual attraction towards prepubescent children. It is a fantasy of some individuals, which is stuck in their heads and, as long as it remains there, it does not affect anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pederasty\">pederasty<\/a> is a crime<\/strong>, as is any kind of sex with individuals who have not given their informed consent \u2014 and <em>therein<\/em> lies its wrongfulness.<\/p>\n<p>The state has no business telling people what they should like or dislike \u2014 <strong>there are no thought crimes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On many atheist outlets, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of child abuse being called pedophilia (even <strong>Richard Dawkins<\/strong> talks about <a href=\"https:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/2014\/07\/response-to-a-bizarre-twitter-storm\/\">&#8216;mild pedophilia&#8217; and &#8216;violent pedophilia&#8217;<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of clarity, I think we should start calling things by their names. <strong>Not all pedophiles have commited crimes<\/strong> and I guess <strong>some of them fight their urges and know they should not abuse children<\/strong>, and they won&#8217;t. We can find revolting such paraphilia (I certainly do), but that doesn&#8217;t justify lumping people who hasn&#8217;t hurt anyone else with criminals.<\/p>\n<p>(Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oberazzi\/318947873\/\">Oberazzi<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religionists intend to morally equate homosexuality with pedophilia, they say both are examples of bestiality and, therefore, should be banned.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[69,194,191],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-child-abuse","tag-pederasty","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}