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Article: Critics Assail Study Affirming Pedophilia.(controversy over a report that claims sex between minors and adults need not be a negative experience)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- May 3, 1999
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Sex between adults and minors can be described in positive terms, claim the authors of a study published by the American Psychological Association. Nuts, responds John Q. Public.
A study on pedophilia that claims child sexual abuse does not cause lasting psychological harm to its victims has set off a furor on the Internet and talk radio. The angry public reaction, fueled by conservative activists, comes nine months after the report was released by the influential American Psychological Association, or APA.
The study, titled "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," suggests sex between adults and ...