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Here it comes: Globalist Operative: Pedophilia is a ‘Sexual Orientation' and Pedophiles Are ‘Born' That Way
2019-04-21
Wrong. Pedophilia is an unacceptable kink, and pedophiles are made as a result of an accumulation of life experiences. Someone has gone native, as it were.
[BigLeaguePolitics] Psychologist Madeleine van der Bruggen advises law enforcement on sex crimes in the Netherlands and is arguing for pedophiles’ rights.

Psychologist Madeleine van der Bruggen is an adviser to the Dutch National Police, as a supposed expert on sex crimes. She is using her position of authority to lobby on behalf of pedophiles, arguing at TEDxSittard-Geleen that they are "born" with this "sexual orientation."

"We’re talking about biology, we’re talking about sexual orientation," she said. "Something that we simply cannot change, and on top of that, everyday new people are born with the same difficulty, so its not practical to eliminate these people from society."

"They haven’t done anything wrong," van der Bruggen said of individuals who find sexual attraction to children.

The talk was given last year at the TEDxSittardGeleen conference, a spin-off of the popular Ted talks series that is organized independently. It can be seen in full here:

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The Dutch psychologist argued during her speech that more leniency is needed for pedophiles. She built her argument using emotional appeals to the audience.

"In fact, sex offenders aren’t all those violent gruesome men waiting in the bushes for children they can attack," she said.

Van der Bruggen even seemed to imply that because some pedophiles have friends, family and ties to the community that these individuals should be coddled by the system instead of punished for their acts.

Then she took it a step further and had the audacity to suggest to the audience that their fathers, husbands, and sons could very well be pedophiles.

"What if this time the offender is your neighbor, your colleague, your football mate?" she asked the audience. "What if this time the offender is your husband or your son? What if this time the police show up at your doorstep?"

She made note that pedophiles should be jailed if they have "committed a lot of offenses," but seemed okay with letting child sex offenders free if they had only committed a handful of crimes.

"We shouldn’t think about this problem only from a criminal justice perspective... Of course when someone has committed a lot of offenses and doesn’t ever intend to stop, we should punish them, but the criminal justice system is only meant to be a last resort, and we should keep it that way," she said.

After a bizarre non-sequitur about #metoo hysteria, she concluded her speech arguing that society needs to "break the taboo" surrounding pedophilia and sex crimes.

"Let’s stop with hate. Let’s stop with negative vibes in the media, and let’s stop with throwing rocks at offenders’ houses because it’s not going to take us anywhere," van der Bruggen said.

Van der Bruggen’s speech is apart of a global trend to mainstream the sexualization of children and remove social stigma for pedophiles. Drag queens are openly grooming children at public libraries, children as young as eight are being drugged for gender reassignment surgery, states are doling out millions to entities promoting child abuse, and gyrating kids are centerpieces for strip shows at bars.

Modern liberals are enthusiastically sacrificing the innocence of children on the altar of diversity and tolerance. The West will continue down the slippery slope toward Sodom and Gomorrah until progressivism is brought to an end.
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#19  My wife the psychotherapist almost had an aneurysm reading this.
She says you cannot rehabilitate a pedophile they are rabid dogs that should be shot on sight.
She has spent a number of years working with the victims and the mental damage is beyond descriptions
She said she would quit if this crap ever showed up in the DSM
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2019-04-21 23:34  

#18  Another hand-basket weaver.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-04-21 22:37  

#17   "I don't know if this is going to go away." I don't know, it seems one of the many signs of a growing decadence, like Weimar Germany. At some point a big event will shake things up and end the naval gazing that leads to decadence, or we will be replaced by a less decadent society.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-21 16:36  

#16  She doesn't give any consideration to the victims of pedos and the harm they cause in society.

Must be a democrat. Doesn't give a rats ass about the real victims but would rather manufacture 'victims' so they can blame society - or vaguely defined groups.


Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-04-21 14:25  

#15  Likely, TW. Remember this was late sixties, so cashing in the the "Sexual Revolution" was a smart bet.
Posted by: Zorba Bluetooth3490   2019-04-21 14:18  

#14  Nature vs. nuture — precisely. My mother’s professional area of interest, so my childhood was saturated with that approach.

I always assumed those writers did it because it had become fashionable after Stranger in a Strange Land, and their editors thought it would increase sales.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-21 14:08  

#13  I suspect the good psychologist grew up reading Marion Zimmer Bradley and certain other popular science fiction/fantasy authors in her youth.

Interest premise, nurture over nature. Some minor research of mine suggests that the late writings of Heinlein, Asimov, et.al. were sexually charged, not because of psychedelic imagery and social comment as Huxley and Ellison but simple (?) declining years dementia expressing primal systems thinking.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-04-21 13:55  

#12  Pretty dogmatic. Any substantiation?

No substantiation, Skidmark. But it looks like a learnt response rather than intrinsic behaviour. Otherwise the victims would have gloried in and enjoyed it, rather than being afraid and ashamed. And in other mammal species one sees examples of homos3xuality, but not, as far as I am aware, with the immature. I suspect the good psychologist grew up reading Marion Zimmer Bradley and certain other popular science fiction/fantasy authors in her youth.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-21 13:33  

#11  Then she took it a step further and had the audacity to suggest to the audience that their fathers, husbands, and sons could very well be pedophiles.

She seems to confine the behavior of pedos to men; women as well are pedos.

She doesn't give any consideration to the victims of pedos and the harm they cause in society.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-04-21 13:00  

#10  I wonder if they realize that the converse truism to "they're born that way" is "they die that way".
Not that I'm advocating anything in particular...
Posted by: ed in texas   2019-04-21 12:21  

#9  I don't know if this is going to go away. At one time, homosexuality was considered an abomination. The it became more and more acceptable, until today, gays are a protected class. Immediately after gay marriage was established as a "right", trans became the next big thing. Now, pedophilia is seen as an abomination in today's society. Someday, we may see demands for LGBTQP rights as well.
Mind you, I don't support any of this, but given current circumstances in society, I could see it happening.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-04-21 12:12  

#8  "Pedophilia is an unacceptable kink, and pedophiles are made as a result of an accumulation of life experiences."

Pretty dogmatic. Any substantiation?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-04-21 10:59  

#7  First questions for this ‘expert’: would you let your kids alone with a pedophile?
Posted by: Airandee   2019-04-21 10:38  

#6  well if it really is a genetic issue, deal with it eugenically. Eliminate all carriers of the undesirable trait so it doesn't get passed on to the next generation.

That being said, I doubt the bulk of pedophiles result from genetic predisposition. I think they had a sexual experience at an early age with a similarly young person and are trying to recapture the moment. Solution: since psychological treatment is pretty much useless in this instance, see solution #1 above.
Posted by: Jack Clomp4234   2019-04-21 08:35  

#5  The only pedophile offender I"d let free is one that has no offense to their record and keeps their mouth shut o that nobody knows their issues. I'd say that if people are born with the problem even psychiatrists should be forced to report them as a danger to society.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-21 08:13  

#4  I believe gays are born gay and bisexuals are born bisexual so I'm ready to believe pedophilia is also something one is born with.

Having said that, you generally can't 'fix' things we are born with so I'm not sure pedophiles are going to like the prescription to the problem because tolerating the victimization of children is not something an society can do and survive.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-21 08:11  

#3  Then they can die in prison then.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-04-21 05:35  

#2  Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
Napier, William.

Similarly for pedos, even if born that way.
Posted by: rammer   2019-04-21 00:57  

#1  So feeding pedophiles to sharks is not acceptable to the Democratic Party?
Why?
Posted by: 3dc   2019-04-21 00:22  

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