> Court: Texas wrongly seized sect children
> Appeals court ruling applies to 48 mothers from polygamist sect
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24777095/
>
> MSNBC News Services
> updated 13 minutes ago
> SAN ANGELO, Texas - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that child
> welfare officials had no right to seize hundreds of children from a
> polygamist sect's ranch on April 3.

> This is rediculous! This girl clearly wants to be with this boy and
> have sex with him. She isn't THAT much younger than he is. What and
> idiot this sheriff is!!!
>

> The Dangers of Sex Abuse Therapy
>
> http://newgon.com/blog/?p=65
>
> April 28th, 2008 by Stephen James
>
> The standard ‘therapy’ for ‘sexually abused’ children and adolescents is
> not only pointless, but positively harmful when applied to those who have
> been involved in consensual relationships.

> How much more conducive to the psychological well-being of the young people
> concerned if a therapist could say to them something like this: ‘Lots of
> kids do what you did and enjoy it. You consented to it–so there’s no
> problem.’ Unlike the orthodox strategy, this wouldn’t involve denying
> something that the youngster knows very well to be true–her own complicity
> in the sexual activity. And, provided she trusts the therapist and is able
> to accept his point of view, its potential to relieve guilt will be
> enormous. It might even save lives.

>
> The Dangers of Sex Abuse Therapy
>
> http://newgon.com/blog/?p=65
>
> April 28th, 2008 by Stephen James
>
> The standard ‘therapy’ for ‘sexually abused’ children and adolescents is
> not only pointless, but positively harmful when applied to those who have
> been involved in consensual relationships.
>
> Try to put yourself into the mind of a child or adolescent who has been
> willingly involved in sex acts with an adult. You may already have been
> worrying about the taboo nature of what you were involved in. At the same
> time you are conscious of the fact that you could have said no, but didnÂ’t.
> The relationship is discovered and you find yourself in therapy. The
> therapist tries to make you feel better about what happened by telling you
> that you were not responsible for it–it was all the adult’s fault. The
> unstated implication of this is that if you had been responsible you would ...

>
> Our Collective Trauma
>
> http://newgon.com/blog/?p=47
>
> January 4th, 2008 by Raza
>
> Today, participating in another debate on child sexuality, responding for
> the so-manieth time to the ‘argument’ that children cannot consent to sex
> because they do not understand it as adults do, I was struck with an
> insight that, while not strictly new, I had so far not realised the full
> significance of.
>
> Quoted here is the most relevant part of my response:
>
> “…What we have over children in this area isn’t some superior
> qualification, itÂ’s a bothersome and persistent superstition. And if
> anything, weÂ’d be far better off collectively forgetting it.
> ...