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85% of Australian men are lying liars, study shows

Posted by kit on 2023-November-20 03:25:21, Monday
In reply to New Study Australia sexual feelings for 'children' posted by Filip30 on 2023-November-20 02:35:55, Monday

This study is fascinating - not for its substantive findings (which are about as boring and predictable as any such statistical psycho-garbage), but for the way in which it exposes the creeping pathologisation of male sexuality.

Look, for instance, at the statement on p.12 that "around one-in-six (15.1%) men ... were indicated as having sexual feelings towards children."

What this means, according to the terms of the study, is that 15.1% of men admitted to having some sexual attraction to people under the age of 18.

Now maybe I'm just an incorrigible deviant, but the idea that 84.9% of men have no attraction at all to people under the age of 18 - even in Australia - strikes me as highly suspicious.

Speaking as a layman, I would estimate that the number of non-asexual adults who have some sexual attraction to people under the age of 18 could be rounded up to 100%. If they're honest about it.

This illustrates just how nonsensical all these figures are - they rely on respondents being honest not only with the researchers, but also with themselves.

But the delusion of the respondents is compounded by the dishonesty and confusion of the researchers - not least the inimitable Michael Salter, Sydney's paedo-finder general and self-serving all-purpose hysteric-for-hire.

In this study, Salter conflates contact and non-contact sexual offending (viewing kiddy porn, for instance), and then exploits this confusion to argue that pornography is the root of the problem.

It is regrettable that the moral and political assumptions underlying Salter's work will not be interrogated either in the media (see this typically unctious report in the Guardian) or by his professional colleagues, who form part of the very same interpretive community. Psychologists are very seldom troubled by originality or critical thought.

But some of us might not be quite so easily satisfied. Not for the first time, it occurs to me that if Salter (and his colleagues in the various worthy non-profit institutions that funded this survey) were really interested in preventing child sexual abuse, a good first step might be inviting paedophiles and perverts to come on-board to help achieve this goal. At the very least, we might be able to challenge some of his more absurd leaps of logic.

But this survey, absurdly, cannot even say the word 'paedophile' - it does not occur anywhere in this report (though the Guardian does use 'paedophilia' once). Nor - alas - do we find the newly minted MAPs.

The guilty parties are simply "men who have sexual feelings towards children" - and, as indicated, a child is anyone under the age of 18.

All are guilty; none is guilty. What a strange and perverse world Michael Salter is delivering us into.


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