Sins of the Fathers - Is child molestation a sickness or a crime?

by limbic on July 31, 2002

“American law defines sexual congress between an adult and a child as a crime. The American Psychiatric Association defines it as a disease called “pedophilia.”

Crimes are acts we commit. Diseases are biological processes that happen to our bodies. Mixing these two concepts by defining behaviors we disapprove of as diseases is a bottomless source of confusion and corruption.”

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