Archive of news articles (2014)

This page contains lists of news articles that have appeared on Portal:Boylove News Channel

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2014

• Why you shouldn’t talk to your children about sexual abuse - The NSPCC certainly seems to be ahead of all other charities in grabbing headline news. Barely a day goes by without one of its press releases being turned, uncritically, into a shocking news story. (Jane Sandeman - spiked, UK)

2013

• Azov Films Prosecutions Starting in 2012, some US customers of Azov Films have been arrested and charged with receipt and possession of child pornography: some of the nude visual material has been construed as illegal by US Law Enforcement Officers ("LEO's"), including agents of the United States Postal Inspection Service.

• 2013 Free Spirits fundraiser - BoyWiki is hosted by Free Spirits and is in danger of being shut down along with all Free Spirits resources due to money problems.

• BoyWiki Annual Report (december 2012) Since the English BoyWiki's reopening, the Recent Changes pages has been very active, listing new entries and updates. It documents a wide-ranging effort of sorting out, categorizing, tagging entries, updating, adapting and new creating templates.

• The Moral Structure of Pedophilia - In contemporary America, condemnation of pedophilia rests on sentiment and not on moral reasoning. Nobody can simultaneously explain why pedophilia is so vile and uphold the first commandment of the sexual revolution: Fulfill thy desires. (The Witherspoon Institute)

• Restricted Group Speaks Up, Saying Sex Crime Measures Go Too Far - As local and state governments have imposed tough penalties for sex crimes in recent years, including restrictions on where sex offenders can live or even set foot, members of this highly stigmatized group have begun to fight back. (New York Times)

• What Can Be Done About Pedophilia? - Interview with James Cantor, Ph.D. (The Atlantic)

• Dawkins is blasted over ‘mild’ paedophilia claims - FORMER Oxford University lecturer Richard Dawkins has come under fire after suggesting recent child sex abuse scandals have been overblown. ( OXFORD MAIL, UK)

• No justice system for old men - Recent prosecutions involving decades-old sexual abuse are not delivering justice, they are undermining it - for everyone. (Rosamund Cuckston - spiked, UK)

• These child-abuse stats are PANTS - The NSPCC’s new campaign is built on the dubious claim that five per cent of people were sexually assaulted as children. (Ken McLaughlin - spiked, UK)

• Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue - Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader. (The Daily Beast)

• ‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’ - Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse. (spiked UK)

• Artist Graham Ovenden jailed after 'unduly lenient' sentence - Internationally-renowned artist Graham Ovenden has been jailed after his suspended sentence for child sex offences was found by the Court of Appeal to be "unduly lenient". (BBC, UK)

• 4 dead in triple-murder suicide pact linked to child porn probe, police say - Three men and a woman were found dead of shotgun blasts in north Alabama after two of them were targeted in a Tennessee child pornography investigation. (CNN)

• Jeremy Forrest: schoolgirl says she 'groomed' teacher who abducted her - Schoolgirl says she instigated relationship with her maths teacher and hopes to marry him when he is released from jail. (The Guardian, UK)

• Teen Commits Suicide One Week After Arrest For Streaking During Football Game - Christian Adamek 15, kills himself after 'facing expulsion and being put on sex offender registry' for streaking prank at high school football game (Youtube)

• Porn’s negative effect on teen sexuality exaggerated, study says - In spite of widespread warnings that pornography is warping young people’s sex lives, new research suggests parents have no need to panic: It may not be as influential on teens’ sexual behaviour as we may think. (The Globe and Mail)

• Restricted Group Speaks Up, Saying Sex Crime Measures Go Too Far - As local and state governments have imposed tough penalties for sex crimes in recent years, including restrictions on where sex offenders can live or even set foot, members of this highly stigmatized group have begun to fight back. (New York Times)

• Manufacturing Fear: Halloween Laws for Sex Offenders - Why worry about sex offenders on Halloween? Research shows no evidence of increased child sex abuse on Halloween and no evidence that a child was ever a victim of sexual abuse by a stranger while out trick-or-treating. ( The Huffington Post)

• Convicted pedophile writes a tell-all book, but publishers aren’t interested - When police arrested David Goldberg in his N.D.G. home 18 months ago on child pornography charges, his first thoughts weren’t that his days as a baseball coach and community newspaper editor abruptly ended in shame, but rather that he’d like to write a book. (Montreal Gazette, Ca)

• 4 dead in triple-murder suicide pact linked to child porn probe, police say - Three men and a woman were found dead of shotgun blasts in north Alabama after two of them were targeted in a Tennessee child pornography investigation. (CNN)

• Not All Pedophiles Have Mental Disorder, American Psychiatric Association Says In New DSM - In a move toward destigmatizing pedophilia, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), distinguishes between pedophiles who desire sex with children, and those who act on those desires. ( The Huffington Post)

• APA says making pedophilia a sexual orientation was a mistake - A mainstream Christian news site and a number of smaller, right-wing blogs published stories this week alleging that the American Psychiatric Association, or APA, had classified pedophilia as a sexual orientation. ( The Huffington Post)

• Former BBC driver David Smith found dead after failing to show in court - A former driver for BBC personalities was found dead at his home on Monday after failing to appear in court, where he was due to stand trial for allegedly abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1984. (The Guardian, UK)