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god is deader than dead
PEDOPHILING INNOCENCE
by
ROBERT J. LEWIS
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The violence in the world right now
tells me that men are afraid of women . . .
the male is more insecure than ever.
Richard Rodriguez
Sex
is more exciting on the screen
and between the pages
than between the sheets.
Andy Warhol
There’s no precedent for it in the animal world:
mature males forcing themselves sexually on immature members
of the species. That it has been documented does not make
it any less anomalous, meaning all exculpatory efforts
to take an exceptionally isolated incident and extrapolate
it into a precedent or predictor of the human behaviour
will fall spectacularly short of minimum requirement.
In those exceptionally rare instances in the animal world
where pedophilia has been documnted, it is due to mistaken
identity, where an adult misperceives the sexually immature
as adult.
Homo sapiens
is the only species on the planet that sexually preys
upon members of the same species who are not sexually
mature. From the Latin paedo, signifying child,
and phile, meaning love, we get paedophile or
pedophile (American spelling). Ninety six percent of pedophiles
are male.
Since Homo
sapiens is the only life form that includes pedophiles
among its numbers, and is sentient (self-conscious), we
must conclude that among certain members of the species
there is a very particular linkage between being self-conscious
and the impulse to engage in sex with unselfconscious
forms of life, such as children and animals.
Of the human
condition and its constants, there is perhaps none as
unnerving as having to deal with self-consciousness, which
is why all cultures, without exception, encourage the
regular ingestion of substances that numb or partially
disable the neocortical functions of the brain. Freud
went so far to suggest that all humans harbour a secret
death wish, or longing to return to the inanimate (unselfconscious
being). Being self-aware before the gaze of the other
is a source of angst for which there is no cure other
than sleep or escaping the public domain, which is why
we comport ourselves one way in public and another in
private.
When it comes
to smoothing out the rough edges of self-consciousness,
most men make do with a spliff or a couple of doubles
at the end of the day, but for others (the hermit, the
monk), a life of solitude is the only practical response
to the anxiety produced by any kind of social contact
– a withdrawal doubtlessly blessed by every mother
of a small child. The ascetic life, however, is a high-minded,
discipline-heavy state of affairs that will not appeal
to the majority of sexually disabled pedophiles for whom
sexual gratification is a recurring appetite that must
be satisfied at all costs. These types quite naturally
gravitate to environments where they will be free from
the apprehension and paralysis produced by self-consciousness.
THE BLAME
GAME
Brain scans
now confirm that homosexuality isn’t learned but
is innate. And now pedophiles, between kiddie stalking
and plea bargaining sessions, are looking to hitch a ride
on the “I was born that way” bandwagon. Appealing
to science without any consideration of moral correctness,
they would have us believe that their predatory predilections
are as DNA-ordained as hetero- or homosexuality.
Studies indicate
that pedophiles are disproportionately left-handed, have
lower IQs by 10 points and are an inch shorter than normal.
And while outcomes vary considerably from one study to
the next, a significant percentage of sexually abused
children become sexually abusive adults. We also know
that there is a cause and effect relationship between
pedophilia and the pathological displacement of erotic
excitement (fetish), where sexual imprinting is linked
to an object or exceptional event. An adolescent who experiences
his first ejaculation in and around a slipper may become
dependent on the slipper for his sexual pleasure, and
if he experiences the same playing with a small boy (a
younger brother, a cousin) he risks becoming dependent
on the presence of a child for sexual gratification. But
all of these facts and arguments in their aggregate do
not explain or predict the prevalence of pedophilia.
Irrespective
of pedophilia's complex and multi-faceted etiology, what
all pedophiles have in common is their sexual attraction
to persons (children) who do not possess critical faculties
of judgment. Closely related to pedophilia is bestiality
(animal sex), preying on the mentally challenged or women
who have been rendered unconscious by drugs (date rape)
and/or alcohol, and necrophilia (sex with the deceased)
– sexual environments where men do not have to fear
being judged on their sexual performance.
Unlike women,
men have to perform sexually when they engage in sex;
they are judged and just as importantly judge themselves
on their performance, and a small percentage of men, for
whatever reasons (physiological, psychological) who are
not up to scratch, who are sexually disabled, are only
able to perform sexually in the presence of or in conjunction
with persons (children) lacking critical faculties of
judgment. It should be noted that mature men are not attracted
to children like they are attracted to a Playboy
centerfold: they are attracted to the judgment-free zone
that only children can provide. These people are not born
pedophile; their perversion, their sickness of being is
not innate like heterosexuality. Pedophilia is the last
resort of the sexually disabled.
Not all sexually
disabled men are pedophiles. The majority, for whom conscience
and morality still count for something -- in this, the
Age of Decadence -- choose to address their sexual needs
through more acceptable outlets: from abstinence to masturbation
and even bestiality. The latter, however disconcerting
and theologically problematic, is by far and away more
acceptable than pedophilia since the presumably orifice
capable beast is neither harmed by the visit nor is consent
an issue. There is a moral case to be made that -- one
to which most mothers of small children would surely subscribe
-- what happens in the OK Corral after midnight is more
than OK if it results in one less pedophiled 5-year-old.
Performance
anxieties preclude pedophile-sex worker relationships.
And while the vast majority of sex workers have no expectation
beyond the business transaction, simply being in the same
room as someone in possession of faculties of judgment
creates an environment which is a non-starter for the
pedophile. Some men, with the exceptional ability to confuse
fantasy for reality, are able to perform after they have
dressed up their surrogates like children or dolls: ersatz
pedophilia. That they are stigmatized and ridiculed for
their left of center proclivities is unfortunate since
they are harmlessly displacing desires that might otherwise
require the presence of an innocent child.
Related to
pedophilia and the sexually disabled man is the staggering
suicide differential between men and women. In Canada,
according to 2001 figures, men are almost four times more
likely than women to commit suicide. In all walks of life
men have to perform in a variety of competitive circumstances,
and that includes the sexual arena where there is no circumventing
the judgment (self-consciousness) that attaches itself
to sexual performance. However tough is a woman’s
lot, especially for the luckless at the bottom end of
the looks scale and those systematically beaten down by
misogynist culture, the disproportionate male to female
suicide ratio forces the conclusion that it is existentially
much more difficult self-actualizing as a man than a woman.
One of the
unintended effects of women’s liberation movements,
the speed of which has taken many men by unpleasant surprise,
is that more and more men are becoming sexually disabled.
It is surely not a coincidence that since the 1960s, the
beginning of the sexual revolution, the teenage suicide
rate has spiked along with ‘reported’ incidences
of pedophilia.
With the advent
of the Internet and computer simulated life (VR=virtual
reality), there is considerable anecdotal evidence that
youngsters who are regularly exposed to on-line pornography
develop unrealistic expectations as it concerns performance.
It wasn’t so long ago an adolescent’s first
exposure to sex was via the brassiere section of a Sears
catalog or Gauguin’s nudes. Nowadays, just after
being tucked into bed by his mother, 8-year-old, iConnected
Billie turns on his cell phone, clicks www.everythingispermitted.com,
and seconds later is watching Fatima giving head to a
camel. Surely, we should be curious, if not concerned
about what kind of sexual inclinations Billie the adult
will be bringing to the bedroom or dungeon. And small
wonder that our culture is producing more and more dysfunctional
males, and by extension, dysfunctional societies.
If the writing
is on the wall -- not enough of it on prison walls --
we, as a society, are in denial. Like a proliferating
virus gone viral, the Internet is an expanding lawless
universe that has been subverted by its own insatiable,
self-perpetuating appetites, while the erstwhile link
between freedom and responsibility, the bedrock of every
civilization, has been co-opted by the one-size-fits-all
Internet link. God is dead and we’re dying right
along with him to the effect that our way of life is producing
more and more perverts who don’t care about anything,
especially themselves, and of course the children they
hi-jack, abuse and sometimes murder.
With the 21st
century unwell on its way, man’s once set-in-stone,
precious androcentric view of the world is crumbling all
around him, and the gender war casualities, the new nihilists
on the block, can no longer be ignored. The pressure on
men to be men has never been so onerous and uncompromising,
resulting in more male suicides and deviant sexuality,
of which pedophilia is but one symptom of an emerging
social pathology painted in black. If this trend is to
be reversed, if men are to find their way out of this
ever widening gyre of a black hole, it must begin with
the young, which makes it both a pedagogical and deontological
challenge.
Education
should have as its first priority the goal of turning
impressionable young boys into healthy and wholesome adult
men, naturally accepting of the growing number of keen
and confident women in their midst. Only when men come
to accept that women hold up half the sky will there be
fewer disabled men on the loose, and by extension fewer
pedophiles and damaged children, most of whom will become
damaged and delinquent adults.
Not unrelated
to this colossal challenge is the obscenely easy access
to Internet porn and its effects on the young in shaping
their views of women and sexuality. Since the 18-years
and older restriction has zero purchase on the Internet,
censorship is a surely question whose time has come.
Best said
by André Malraux: “A man becomes truly Man
only when in quest of what is most exalted in him.”
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