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"When you are constantly moving forward, searching for the cutting edge, everyone behind you always believe you have gone too far. The further back from the cutting edge they are, the more extreme and, indeed, insane, you appear, to them, to be. In this way, one person's "madness" can be another's commonsense." ~ - David Icke -
Pedophilia a growing problem
throughout Europe
From Correspondent Bill Delaney
BERLIN (CNN) -- A profoundly disturbing child-sex case unfolding in Belgium has drawn the world's attention to the problem of child molestation.
In turn, that attention has increased interest in an upcoming international child exploitation conference to begin Tuesday in Stockholm, Sweden. Officials and journalists from 130 countries will attend the conference.
While the problem of pedophilia has so far been studied mostly in Asia, it is a growing problem in a number of European countries as well, including Germany.
CNN met with one German, an apparently mild-mannered, intelligent man in his mid-30s. He is a pedophile who throughout his adult life has had sexual relationships with boys as young as 11.
"Years ago, I had the illusion I could do something to stop it," he said. "Now I know it can't be stopped."
In Germany, sex with anyone under 14 is illegal. Nonetheless, experts say, pedophilia is on the increase, in part because as traditional male-female roles have broken down, more men seek relationships in which they are unquestionably in charge.
"Sexuality always has something to do with power," said sex counselor Christian Spoden. "The major difference between grown-ups and children is that children cannot give informed consent."
In Germany, as in most other places, pedophilia is handled mainly as a crime rather than an illness. Cutting down sex tourism, especially in Asian countries like Thailand, has become a new focus for law enforcement. Last year, more Germans than ever before were arrested for having sex with children outside of Germany.
The problem with the strategy of just arresting pedophiles, experts say, is that putting police pressure on sex offenders, whether in or out of Germany, doesn't change much.
In a society with so few taboos left, many pedophiles end up feeling that they are being victimized by society for having questionable sexual inclinations.
The German man CNN met says he considers pedophilia a curse that led to his suicide attempt in jail. At the same time, he firmly believes boys as young as eight years old want sex, and he says he has never forced a child to do anything.
His attitude is typical among pedophiles, experts say, and is evidence that Germany needs more programs to treat pedophilia, not punish it.
Some believe that Germany and other countries should also stop sending mixed signals to pedophiles -- for example, in Germany, magazines with photos of nude children are readily available on news stands.
Although publishers insist that the photos are simply a portrayal of innocent naturism, their detractors say that such publications promote the sexual abuse of children.
Do the children pictured know that they get published in such a magazine? we asked Spoden. "I very strongly believe they don't know that they are in this context, of this magazine, which is of course used pornographically," he said. "For pedophiles. We know that."
In Germany, it is difficult to define acceptable social values in a society that many say long ago lost its innocence.
Related Research:
Half the House : A Memoir
by Richard HoffmanThe celebrated book that led to the arrest of a pedophile with a forty year history of molesting children. Against the backdrop of postwar, blue collar America, Half the House depicts a family's struggles to care for two teminally ill children, recounts the sexual abuse to which the author at age ten was subjected by his coach, and explores the ways in which grief and rage estrange those who need each other most.
The personal story of Richard Hoffman describes his childhood in blue-collar, postwar Allentown; life in a family with two terminally ill children; struggle with and recovery from alcoholism; and confrontation with his father.
Too Scared to Cry : Psychic Trauma in Childhood
by Lenore TerrWhen children witness or experience sudden, shocking events, how do they assimilate the horror? Terr found they don't simply forget and grow up unscathed. Evidence proves the trauma is recorded and repeatedly replayed by the mind. That these recurring images manifest themselves in different guises is especially intriguing in light of her speculation about repressed trauma in the work of Hitchcock, Stephen King and others. The stories here will break your heart, but Terr's advice for aiding traumatized children can help counter the blows of a violent world.
Winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma, clinical professor of psychiatry Terr examines the many ways that trauma has changed not only the children she's treated, but all of us. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world.
Secret, Don't Tell : The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism
by Carla Emery
The Author:
One night in 1989 I dreamed I reached out and grabbed a hair from the tail of a running, disappearing donkey as it melted back into a tangled, dense, dark, convoluted forest. I managed to grab only one hair of the tail before it was gone. As in that dream, again and again, I have captured another single strand of this long, complex, and tragic tale, the history and technology of criminal hypnotism. Working with each single hair, I have struggled to create the form and essence of the original donkey. I wrote this book out of a fierce desire to provide true facts about mind-control technologies. By quoting from many sources (many rare and difficult-to-find), I have tried to provide an honest print dialogue on the stifled topic of mind-control technologies. Here, the good guys warn of potential misuses of hypnosis. Mind-controllers talk to one another in assumed privary, as in CIA memos. And voices of the mind-controlled cry out - wounded, confused, angry, pleading for help. Here it is.
The publisher
From corrupt therapists to unethical researchers to secretive government agencies, Svengalis have victimized the unsuspecting and the imprudent. SECRET, DON'T TELL is a good read about this too-long closed subject, exposing the darker side of hypnotism throughout history - a world where real-life Svengalis abuse their hapless Trilbys. Born from the author's own painful experience with criminal hypnotism, SECRET, DON'T TELL is the product of over a decade of interviews and diligent scholarly research. It is a true encyclopedia in the field of hypnosis and modern mind-control technologies, indispensable for anyone interested in trance phenomena, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counseling, or related fields of law. Yet Carla Emery's writing is far from stuffy or academic. This book is intensely readable, with the pace of an excellent suspense novel. It is both compelling and terrifying - and every word is true.
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