text: "How does he explain the variety of cultures where the vast majority of men participated in pederasty?"
  Many of these people are anthropologically/historically uninformed. They also will ignore any data which serves to undermine cultural dogmas. They are not truth seekers, but dogma enforcers.
  "proposed replacing the pedophilia diagnosis in DSM-5 with pedohebophilic disorder,[20] adding hebephilia as part of the definition"
  A natural development given that they are moralists.... But make no mistake as attraction to midteens or ephepephilia is culturally problematised it would not be long that by its adjacency (like ped/hebe, lack of sharp distinctions) to hebephilia, it too would be pathologised. Then psychology can be simply an arm of the legal system.
  "(There's some great science in service of social norms!)
  "He has rejected any linkage between homosexuality and pedophilia: "It's quite solidly shown in the scientific literature that there is absolutely no association between being a gay man and being a pedophile."[31]""
  (1) Yes and you'll notice that these people (which I like to characterise as 'midwits', having IQs no greater than 120 at the most) rather conveniently always seem to position themselves firmly within the realm of respectabilty...
  "(He determined which subject is a gay man and which a pedophile by what criteria? By height? By IQ? By brain scans of white matter?)"
  You bring up an important point. Where does homosexuality begin? They'll get slippery on this question. Obviously he wants to extend the definition of pedophilia so he will consider hebephiles as not homosexual. But with attraction to mid-teens onwards you put them in a tough spot...After all, they will look very absurd if they assert that respectable homosexuality begins at 18 (arbitrary age decided on by a legislature and not even the AOC in all countries)....
  Or maybe they'll respond like Ian McFail and say (paraphrasing) "I'm just not interested in this question."
  "Cantor also seems big into self-promotion. He has his own .org web page (not just a faculty blurb provided by a university server) and his "front page" lists media coverage he has had."
  Of course he loves to self-promote! I refer you to (1) above. He wouldn't get far with self-promotion if he landed anywhere other than the realm of respectability.
  With this you can almost start building a psychological profile... I'm a but of an armchair psychologist myself... Do they not have a word for that?
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  You didn't address one issue: - Laarka 2021-July-8 10:29:53, Thursday (1)
  Because I don't care about VirPed... nt. - a-rational-person 2021-July-9 05:29:45, Friday (0)
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