Anonymous
ID: WjwsUeKe
7/9/2025, 7:39:55 AM No.509897112
This whole Epstein scandal got me thinking... why does society even hate pedophiles so much?
There was a famous meta-analysis conducted in the late 90s, by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch, and Philip Bauserman, which concluded that the widespread notion that sexual contact between adults and children is correlated with serious psychological harm is incorrect.
The study found that a representative sample of people who report experiencing 'child sexual abuse' did not exhibit any serious effects when compared to unrepresentative clinical and psychiatric samples, and that experiencing CSA was consistently confounded with coming from a poor home environment, i.e. most people who experienced sexual abuse came from shitty, dysgenic families, and their poor functioning in later life was likely not related to sexual abuse.
The authors critiqued other studies for relying on unrepresentative psychiatric and clinical samples, not controlling for confounding variables, and most egregiously, not even taking into account whether or not these relationships were consensual or not. It's a contentious issue, so honest studies are rare, but there are a few studies which do take into account whether or not the "victim" was consenting which find no association whatsoever with harm.
The study was unprecedentedly condemned by congress, because they didn't like the outcome of the study, leading to congressman Brian Baird, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, to state "of the 535 members of the House and Senate, fewer than 10 had actually read the study, and even fewer were qualified to evaluate it based on its merit".
The results of the studies have largely been accepted by psychologists, and the study has been independently replicated.
Sure, nobody wants to let their kids have sex with pedophiles, but the harm they supposedly cause is massively overstated, so why are pedophiles the number one boogeyman in society?
There was a famous meta-analysis conducted in the late 90s, by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch, and Philip Bauserman, which concluded that the widespread notion that sexual contact between adults and children is correlated with serious psychological harm is incorrect.
The study found that a representative sample of people who report experiencing 'child sexual abuse' did not exhibit any serious effects when compared to unrepresentative clinical and psychiatric samples, and that experiencing CSA was consistently confounded with coming from a poor home environment, i.e. most people who experienced sexual abuse came from shitty, dysgenic families, and their poor functioning in later life was likely not related to sexual abuse.
The authors critiqued other studies for relying on unrepresentative psychiatric and clinical samples, not controlling for confounding variables, and most egregiously, not even taking into account whether or not these relationships were consensual or not. It's a contentious issue, so honest studies are rare, but there are a few studies which do take into account whether or not the "victim" was consenting which find no association whatsoever with harm.
The study was unprecedentedly condemned by congress, because they didn't like the outcome of the study, leading to congressman Brian Baird, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, to state "of the 535 members of the House and Senate, fewer than 10 had actually read the study, and even fewer were qualified to evaluate it based on its merit".
The results of the studies have largely been accepted by psychologists, and the study has been independently replicated.
Sure, nobody wants to let their kids have sex with pedophiles, but the harm they supposedly cause is massively overstated, so why are pedophiles the number one boogeyman in society?
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