Years ago I was watching South Park when I first heard of NAMBLA (Click here for the episode), but I didn’t think it was real. Certainly a group of male pedophiles wouldn’t be stupid enough to start a group to try to make it legal for them to sexually abuse little boys. But I’ll be god damned, I was wrong.

Searching for them and finding their website was a very weird thing. Before finding them I had heard Rush Limbaugh talking about them and mentioning some study that suggested that sex between an adult and a child when done in a loving relationship isn’t damaging to the child. On their website they actually have a book listed that talks about this study.

Another thing I have seen written in the comments of a YouTube video and also said by Limbaugh, was that they expected that this was going to become an accepted thing and that it was going to become okay for these guys to do this. It was described as a slippery slope starting with gay marriage being accepted and ending with pedophiles being accepted.

The only thing I found for a basis for this was info found on Wikipedia. It said “In 1994 NAMBLA was expelled from the International Lesbian and Gay Association, having been the first US based organization to be a member.”

Now, I know that Wiki is written by people who can say whatever they want, and it’s not necessarily accurate. So I don’t know how truthful this statement is. They evidently got their info from Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2. I would hate to think any group would associate themselves with NAMBLA once they knew what they were. If you read the book preview linked above, it would appear NAMBLA wasn’t expelled from the International Lesbian and Gay Association until members got busted having sex with minors.

Even so, it is a terrible basis for the claim that gay marriage being accepted will lead to pedophiles being accepted. While I do consider myself more of a conservative than a liberal I am intelligent enough to know that one does not lead to the other. It’s truly an absurd statement or assumption.

But I want to talk more about this study that claims that such things are not damaging to the child if done under the right circumstances. Now I am sure that many of these people think they love the children they are abusing, and don’t see it as abuse. You can even make an argument that there have been previous societies such as the Romans who allowed adults to use children as sexual partners or sex slaves. This does not mean it wasn’t damaging to the children.

A child simply does not have the ability to truly understand what is being done to them. When they are in a relationship where they are being exploited by an adult, either they’re threatened to keep silent or they don’t know that this is not normal. But later on, when they find out that not everyone is touched the way they were, you start to see behaviors that end in the abuser getting caught.

When I talk about behaviors that get an abuser caught, I am talking about things a child does to try to understand what was done. Some kids will start abusing others in the way they were abused. Such as in a case I know of where a boy at a young age was able to watch porn with his father. As a means of trying to understand what he saw, he then went on to molest or rape his cousins. Another case I know of is one where a guy was molested by two older girls when he was young, and he then went on to sexually abuse his brothers and sisters. This may have been an attempt at trying to understand the feelings evoked from what was done to him, but he continued for years, even after finally getting caught and arrested.

This does not mean that all sexual abuse victims go on to become abusers. That's not far off from saying that because one person who killed people watched violent movies, all people who watch violent movies will kill people. This is not a cause and effect, but a link to certain behaviors of some people. Not everyone reacts the same way to the same things.

I would say that perhaps after a certain age, when the mental and emotional maturity has gotten to a certain point, maybe sexual contact with an adult would not be emotionally or mentally damaging. But sexual predators of children have a self-serving nature, and they don’t care about this. Just like a rapist doesn’t care what the victim they attack wants. They only care about what they want.

Personally, I think the person who did the study suggesting sexual contact with minors is not damaging if the adult is “nice” is probably someone who is sexually abusing kids or wants to. I suspect this person ignored facts to further their own desires, and to come up with some argument to twist the results to support their own desires. It’s the most likely reason why a person would make an argument for something so damaging to become -legal. It’s part of the self-serving nature that this kind of person would have.

I don’t see much of a likelihood that child sex abuse will ever be looked at as a good thing with the everything we've learned about sexual predators. If you want further evidence of my argument as to the nature of sexual predators watch the documentary Deliver Us From Evil. The priest featured exhibits the self serving-behavior I am talking about. He’s one of the creepiest people I’ve ever seen.