Reduxx can reveal that a founding member of the organization now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) was in correspondence with and defended a leading figure behind a notorious pro-pedophile lobby group. American sexologist Vern L. Bullough was a pioneering academic involved with the US-based Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, later renamed to WPATH, and served on the editorial team for a pro-pedophile academic publication which advocated for the normalization of adult-child sexual relations.
Despite repeatedly arguing that his interest in the topic of pedophilia, or “intergenerational sex,” as he referred to it, was purely academic, Bullough revealed during the Paidika interview that he believed there was a “hysteria” surrounding the topic of child sexual abuse, and blamed “feminists” for the widespread opposition to pedophilia.
“Paedophiles have become the scapegoat for everything that seems to be wrong with American society and the family,” Bullough continued. “We have institutionalized the hysteria… Paedophiles are so excluded from mainstream American society that they cannot really say what they do or what they believe in.”
But perhaps most disturbingly, Bullough kept regular correspondences with a top member of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a lobby group that advocates for the normalization of sexual relationships between adult men and young boys.
Bullough was also a main organizer of the World Pornography Conference, with the first event taking place in 1998 at the Center for Sex Research at Cal State Northridge, with the financial backing of the pornography industry’s lobby group, the Free Speech Coalition.
Well there’s a surprise.
“Despite repeatedly arguing that his interest in the topic of pedophilia, or “intergenerational sex,” as he referred to it, was purely academic”
If you are going to research this area you’d really want to reach out for a supervisor who can help you deal with the emotional trauma that comes with this.
I have worked with pedophiles in mental health. The last one was a man who was in hospital for psychosis and after he was well I had to take him to his police interview where he explained in detail how he had shown various young boys how to masturbate.
My role was to sit there with him and not say anything as his mental health worker.
When I went home that night I showered for longer than normal and still felt dirty.
I have no idea how the police who track down the child sex offenders on line handle this work. It just makes me feel like absolute sh..
I know we hear the term ‘vicarious trauma’ thrown about all over the place but I can tell you that this work really causes it. You really need decent supervision to do it.