A Johns Hopkins-affiliated public research center is facing backlash after hiring an instructor who was forced to resign from their University after defending the “dignity” of “minor attracted people,” and entertaining theories about giving pedophiles “high quality child pornography.”
On May 12, the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse announced that disgraced Old Dominion University instructor Allyn Walker would be joining the Center as a postdoctoral fellow.
Walker, a female-to-male transgender who identifies as non-binary, was the subject of widespread controversy last year after she sat down for an interview with Prostasia – a registered 503c which many have called “pro-pedophile” for their stances on legalizing child-like sex dolls and routinely comparing pedophilia to a sexuality.
Walker was an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and had interviewed with Prostasia’s now-defunct podcast in November to promote her book titled “A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.”
In the interview, Walker stated she used the term “minor attracted people” out of consideration for pedophile’s feelings, noting “… I think it’s important to use terminology for groups that members of that group want others to use for them.”
She also stated that “MAP advocacy groups like B4U-Act have advocated for use of the term, and they’ve advocated for it primarily because it’s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile.”
While Walker initially noted in the interview that she was not seeking to answer the question of whether or not she considered pedophilia a sexual orientation, her later comments suggest she did place it on a similar spectrum.
“… on one hand, just because someone has attractions to children, doesn’t mean that they will never experience attraction to adults as well, or even that their attractions to children will persist for their entire lives.” She said, “Sexuality can be fluid, and there are many MAPs who have a range of attractions to both children and adults.”
Word of Walker’s interview with Prostasia spread like wildfire, with many expressing outrage that a University instructor was portraying pedophilia in a sympathetic light.
Copies of Walker’s PhD dissertation quickly began to circulate, showing Walker had entertained theories regarding allowing pedophiles to access “high quality child pornography” in belief it may reduce offending.
The backlash was so severe that Old Dominion University President Brian O. Hemphill was forced to issue a statement just days after the interview was released, and soon after placed Walker on administrative leave.
On November 26, a joint statement issued by ODU announced that Walker was resigning from ODU. In it, Walker blamed media as well as transphobia for “mischaracterizing” her work.
Dr. Naudé is a Professor focused on social sciences and linguistics at Suwon University in South Korea. In February, he had his research on Prostasia removed from The British Journal of Sociology and History just 24 hours after it was first published after the organization pushed the Journal to remove it.
The article, titled A Case Study via Sociolinguistic Analysis of [a] Covert Pro-Pedophilia Organization Registered as a Child Protection Charity, focused on how Prostasia claimed to be for child protection but built a narrative framing pedophiles as victims of “an oppressive social structure.”
Dr. Naudé found that many organizations “claiming to want to protect children” had “linguistic markers [denoting] that something else was their intention.”
“The example of Dr. Walker being welcomed along with her ideology to the Moore Center is a piece of a puzzle. The parts of the puzzle continue to come together to give us a clearer picture of the pro-pedophilia agenda being pushed by an unholy triad of academia, psychology associations and pseudo-child protection groups,” Dr. Naudé asserted.
“The façade of safe guarding and child protection that fosters pedophilia as a sexuality is now becoming a perverse parody which if left will eventually result in pedophiles becoming a protected group. This will be a disaster for decades of work attempting to eradicate the pestilence of child abuse in society,” Dr. Naudé said.
Last fall, while Walker’s views were being lambasted by the media, director of the Moore Center Elizabeth Letourneau published an op-ed in The Washington Post defending her. In the op-ed, Letourneau states she also prefers ‘minor attracted person’ to ‘pedophile.’
The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse is affiliated with the John Hopkins medical establishment, which has a long history of endorsing theories related to child sexuality in addition to promoting transsexual surgeries.
John Money, who coined the term “gender identity,” was a sexologist and psychologist who founded the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and started an extensive research program on the medical treatment of sexual paraphilias and on “sex reassignment” procedures.
Dr. Fred Berlin, a controversial psychiatrist who was mentored by Money, had a clinic within Johns Hopkins until the mid-1990s. Berlin is infamously known for protesting against a law that required mental health professionals to alert police when they were aware a client was actively sexually abusing a child.
Berlin managed to gain an exemption to that mandatory reporting law for his clients for a period of time, something which sparked outrage amongst child safeguarding groups.
Michael Salter, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia and president-elect of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, wrote on Twitter of the Moore Center's announcement: 'To retain its ethical foundation, child sexual abuse prevention work has to be victim-centred.'
因為替戀童癖洗刷汙名而遭抗議離職的前ODU教授Allyn Walker，獲兒童性侵防治中心雇用。
一早就看到好幾個不同的消息來源在講這件事，其實我個人認為這個議題跟跨性別議題關聯度很低，不過Allyn Walker教授本人是主張反對他的人都是基於恐跨，因為他是女跨男。
稱戀童癖為「受未成年吸引的人」的不名譽講師獲兒童安全中心雇用
註：括號內是我補充的。
註：行政休假就是帶薪假。
-只要提供戀童癖高品質的兒童色情（就不會有實質的犯罪行為）-
又註：John Money就是做了那個著名的雙胞胎實驗，嚴重虐待兒童，導致研究對象最後都自殺的學者。
右派小報紐約郵報
這跟壓迫跨性別的自我認同是一樣的你們怎麼都看不出來呢！
（試圖了解卻只覺得越來越荒謬的我
「你甚麼貨色啊約翰霍普金斯大學你考得上嗎！竟然敢質疑這麼權威的機構！」
重點是這種「看色情片／刊物／使用色情商品就能減少性犯罪」的概念真的很好笑欸
這種東西從來沒有少過
甚至很多是真人遭受性侵的紀錄，並沒有根除性犯罪
我前兩天有看到這個消息，但看了那篇 Walker在Prostasia的採訪之後我感覺她說的東西(起碼單就那篇採訪)和酷兒理論是比較無關的，所以我就沒有更新在那一噗裡了。在我看來，酷兒理論在戀童癖的應用上更多是被拿來辯稱：兒童可以同意性行為、兒童可以被性化(sexualized)、兒童有情慾、成人與兒童的分界不明確…等等，而她看起來沒有做這方面的論述，她的意思看起來更近似於「不是所有戀童癖都是兒童性侵犯，所以我們應該把兩者分開看，將戀童癖去汙名，因為他們不能選擇他們的偏好」。尚未看到她企圖合理化與兒童的性接觸或企圖性化兒童的論述。
1. 根本不知道她說的那種「有道德的戀童癖」是否真的存在，也不知道他們跟兒童性犯罪確切有多少重疊。他們有可能對自己過去的歷史說謊。並且，戀童癖常常有種妄想，認為自己是在示愛或追求伴侶，所以可能連他們自己都不知道自己其實越過界。
2. 如果「有道德的戀童癖」確實存在，他們自然會去尋求幫助。相反地，去汙名之後會有多少戀童癖認為自己的性慾指向正常又健康不必採取任何行動？
3. 承上，他們為什麼會需要被去汙名？一個戀童癖唯一會被發現他是戀童癖的場合是當他已經做了什麼錯事的時候。如果他有道德，什麼事也不做，根本不會有人知道他是戀童癖，那他何必管大眾如何痛罵戀童癖，尤其是他知道大眾罵的戀童癖是那些犯罪者？
然後雖然我試圖有一說一，但老實說我也有點懷疑動機。應該也有些天生有暴力傾向的人會積極尋求幫助、讓自己不要真的揍人吧，但至少我沒聽說過有人要幫暴力傾向去汙名。樓上的暱稱好好吃....那退一步說，如果目的是幫更生人擺脫污名的話呢？但是哪個更生人不會被自己過去犯的罪所累？為何我們要特別關注兒童性侵犯這個群體？也不合理
同哥殺所說對「好的哥布林戀童癖」而言，最好的作法就是不要出現在世人面前，因為現行法律就這麼規範而且兒童的行為能力就是與成人不同所以即使兩情相悅也還是有妨礙性自主這個罪名。如果這樣的人存在而且發現這樣的想法會影響生活，我們當然同意該訴諸諮詢和治療而這也沒有什麼錯，但這位教授確定這些人會想要高調說自己對兒童會產生性慾嗎？
嗯不是跨運支持戀童癖，是反過來
竟然還是主修犯罪研究的
這些人說出來的話充滿破綻，還有人可以贊同而且這種人還受到法律保障？？？滿滿的無力感耶……
不管他們最後要諮詢的是良民還是罪犯，這個機構的目的是抑制兒童犯罪吧？怎麼突然站在受害者的對立面了？
這樣的意思吧(？
當初同婚就是在講「性向無法改變」，如果可以改變就不是性向，要求同性戀改變性向甚至會被譴責是不尊重他們的野蠻舉動。而這個教授完全是在打同運的臉，我真不懂怎麼歐美還能夠有人認同他
但答案只有一個