thread: risk or risk factor?

thread: risk or risk factor?

15 July 2020    
from twitter and bluesky threads

bly 

 

Does the distinction matter? Yes, so much that it could be the difference between child abuse and no crime.

 


People think of pedophiles as being "at risk of committing sexual crimes against children".

But pedophilia is just a risk *factor* for sexual crime (just as heterosexuality is also a risk factor for committing other kinds of sexual crimes).

Not only that but we also know >


> that [...] many [...] of those who commit sexual crimes against children are *not* pedophiles (surprising but true).

To me this means that sexual abuse prevention programmes shpuld be targeted at pedophiles *with multiple risk factors* AS WELL AS others at risk of offending. >


> This is separate from support efforts for those disclosing pedophile attraction only.

Those programmes are not predicated on crime prevention but on supporting people impacted by unfair stigma around presumed criminal intent. If policymakers could see >


> how these things are, and need to be different then there can be hope of a comprehensive and humane solution for situations like the current Menlo Church scandal and others like it. #MAPsAgainstAbuse




This thread has been edited to remove a factual claim (that more sexual offenders against children are non-pedophilic than are pedophilic). This claim, which has some support in the evidence base, nonetheless depends on a specific taxonomy of non-pedophiles and pedophiles. Other valid taxonomies could show a different picture.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

sex-repulsed, but attracted to children

 

critique of a podcast: the worst epidemic

 

the tragedy of child sex dolls and artificial cp

   

py

I sat with my mum. I asked if she loved me, no matter what. She said of course. I told her that what I was about to say could change that.

 

ethan edwards

It's as if you said, Lawbreakers! Disgusting people! An epidemic of vast proportions! Some of them murder and torture people! That's true. But there are other lawbreakers who park in no parking zones or let the time expire on their meters.

 

brett daywalker

No children have been harmed, and there is no evidence that the people viewing such media have or will harm children, but they have been made criminals anyway.

 
 
 
sex-repulsed, but attracted to children
py

I sat with my mum. I asked if she loved me, no matter what. She said of course. I told her that what I was about to say could change that.

 
 
 
critique of a podcast: the worst epidemic
ethan edwards

It's as if you said, Lawbreakers! Disgusting people! An epidemic of vast proportions! Some of them murder and torture people! That's true. But there are other lawbreakers who park in no parking zones or let the time expire on their meters.

 
 
 
the tragedy of child sex dolls and artificial cp
brett daywalker

No children have been harmed, and there is no evidence that the people viewing such media have or will harm children, but they have been made criminals anyway.