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2016-06-10T03:39:04Z

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2016 (MMXVI) is the current year and a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter CB), the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
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===January===
*In the beginning of January 2016, a number of groups came forward including [[Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc]] and [[California Reform Sex Offender Laws Organization]] to oppose the bill H.R.515 <ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/515</ref> known as the [[International Megan's Law]]. In an editoral in the Washington Post, David Post compared the law to Nathaniel Hawthorne's, ''The Scarlet Letter'' <ref>https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/summary.html</ref> and "Hitler and the Holocaust" and the roundup of the Jews and the infamous “yellow star,” <ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/06/the-yellow-star-the-scarlet-letter-and-international-megans-law/ The yellow star, the scarlet letter, and ‘International Megan’s Law’]</ref> (See also: [[Portal:Boylove News Channel/Reform Sex Offender Laws|Reform Sex Offender Laws news]])

*Starting around January 22 and continuing into February, [[Free Spirits]] was subjected to a number of [[DDoS]] attacks. So far, no person or group has come forward to take credit for these attacks.

*[[January 22]], the vicious heterosexual murderer Sarah Sands had her sentence increased to seven-and-a-half years from her original three-and-a-half year prison sentence for stabbing eight times the 77-year-old boylover Michael Pleasted on the 28th of November, 2014, killing him in cold blood. The British court ruled that her original sentence was “unduly lenient” <ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/22/woman-killed-paedophile-london-sentence-doubled Vicious heterosexual murderer has her sentence more than doubled]</ref>

*[[January 28]] - in what Police are calling [[Operation Malaise]], 13 people throughout Quebec and in Toronto were arrested, who they described as a [[Pedophile ring]], on trumped-up charges steming from "'''allegedly''' exchanging advice on ways to sexually abuse children without raising suspicion", simply for their association in real life and in internet [[Message board|support forums]]. <ref>[http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/6250573-police-bust-quebec-pedophile-ring/ Police bust Quebec pedophile ring]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news-crime-punishment/2016/01/28/accused-in-child-sex-exploitation-case-appear-in-court Accused in child sex exploitation case appear in court]</ref> <ref>[http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/6250573-police-bust-quebec-pedophile-ring/ Police bust Quebec pedophile ring]</ref> <ref>[http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/01/28/des-animateurs-scouts-parmi-les-presumes-pedophiles Des animateurs scouts parmi les présumés pédophiles]</ref> <ref>[http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/affaires-criminelles/201602/04/01-4947213-club-de-pedophiles-cinq-accuses-liberes-aujourdhui.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_meme_auteur_4945108_article_POS2 Club de pédophiles: cinq accusés libérés aujourd'hui]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-pedophile-ring-pornography-arrest-1.3430455 Another arrest made in alleged Quebec pedophile ring]</ref>

===February===
*[[February 1]] - The U.S. House voted to pass the [[International Megan's Law‎]] (HR 515). It will now go to the President for his signature. <ref>[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/02/international-megans-law-passes-with-no-opposition/ International Megan’s Law passes with no opposition]</ref> <ref>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/house_passes_rep_smiths_international_megans_law.html</ref>

*[[February 8]] - President '''Barack Obama''' signed HR 515, known as the International Megan's Law‎, into law.<ref>[http://californiarsol.org/2016/02/president-signed-hr-515-international-megans-law/ President Signed HR 515, International Megan’s Law]</ref> <ref>[https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/08/statement-press-secretary-hr-515-hr-4188-s-2152-0 Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 515, H.R. 4188, S. 2152]</ref>

*[[February 9]] - A lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District, San Francisco Division, challenging International Megan’s Law. <ref>[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/09/first-lawsuit-challenging-intl-megans-law-filed-in-ca-federal-court/ First lawsuit challenging Int’l Megan’s Law filed in CA federal court]</ref> <ref>http://nationalrsol.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IML-Complaint-CONFORMED-Feb-2016.pdf</ref>

*[[February 16]] - [[Tom O'Carroll]] is suspended from the Labour Party but despite the [[moral panic]] of party officials, he can't be kicked out straight away. Tom O'Carroll, 70, former chairman of the [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (PIE), who once called for the abolition of age-of-consent laws in the UK was suspended from Labour party in a move that appears to be an attempt to embarrass and destabilize the current leadership of the Labour Party by associating the party leader (Jeremy Corbyn) with Mr. O'Carroll. <ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3448932/Paedophile-campaigner-called-sex-children-legalised-joined-Labour-party-Party-figures-said-horrified-criminal-slipped-call-kicked-out.html Paedophile campaigner who called for sex with children to be legalised is suspended from the Labour Party but despite the horror of party officials he can't be kicked out straight away]</ref><ref>[https://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/ An Open Letter to the Labour Party]</ref>

*[[February 18]] - [[Operation_Malaise#Les_Amis_de_Toutes_les_Minorit.C3.A9s_Sexuelles_.28LATMS.29|Les Amis de Toutes les Minorités Sexuelles (LATMS)]], a non-profit organization whose website offered services to sexual minorities including pedophiles in [[Canada]], a Quebec superior court judge ruled should not legally be allowed to operate in the province citing that LATMS promoted "the idea that their sexual orientation is normal and worthy of respect.” <ref>[http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-pro-pedophile-group-loses-status Quebec pro-pedophile group loses status]</ref>

===March===
*[[March]] - BoyWiki became a sponsor of [[WEIRD Radio]]. On March 26, [[WEIRD_Radio#Etenne.27s_interview_on_WEIRD_Radio_about_BoyWiki|Etenne's interview]] about [[BoyWiki]] was aired on WEIRD Radio.
*[[March 21]] - [[Operation midland|Operation Midland]] which cost the British government over £1.8 million was reported to have come to an end by the BBC on March 21, 2016 and no further action will be brought over claims. <ref>[http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35863580 Operation Midland: Child abuse inquiry ends with no charges brought]</ref>

*[[March 30]] - The Injunction to stop implementation of the [[International Megan's Law]] was heard in federal court in California before U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton. No decision was reached and Hamilton did not indicate how or when she expects to rule. <ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/passport-mark-sex-offenders-law-challenged-court-38022381 Attorney: Sex Offender Passport Marker Would Be Dangerous]</ref> <ref>[http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/03/30/judge-asked-to-halt-sex-offenders-passport-marks.htm Judge Asked to Halt Sex Offenders' Passport Marks]</ref>

===April===
*On [[April 6]], '''Faith''' which was name of the [[Free Spirits]] old internet server which had been in operation 24/7 for over 10 years was finally decommissioned and replaced. RIP Faith.

*On [[April 8]], we learned that The United States Postal Inspection Service represented by US Postal Inspector Wylie Christopher is now using the [[Azov Films]] customer database to compile targets for a sting operation, sending e-mails to invite targets to download child pornography on a USPIS-controlled undercover website similar to their ''[[Insider_Video_Club#2006_IVC_Raid|Operation Insider]]'' with the [[IVC|Insider Video Club/Award Films International]] costumer database. These defendants are listed under the new sub-heading [[Azov_Films_Prosecutions#Phase_Two_Defendants|Phase Two Defendants]] on the Boywiki [[Azov Films Prosecutions]] page.<ref>[https://www.boychat.org/messages/1470630.htm PHASE TWO of Operation Spade has begun]</ref> <ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9hyw3-Boc65Q3B4a0h4RzM3bUU/view United States of America v. ROBERT RAYMOND NELSON]</ref> <ref>[http://www.themorningsun.com/article/MS/20160407/NEWS/160409761 Mt. Pleasant man faces federal child porn charge]</ref>

*[[April 13]] - U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton rejects request for International Megan’s Law Injunction. <ref>[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f46200a8ec8749e197bbb1632e1e76bb/judge-wont-block-passport-marker-law-involving-sex-crimes Judge (U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton) rejects request to block passport marker law]</ref>

*[[April 27]] - Former U.S. House Speaker [[Dennis Hastert]] was given a sentence of 15 months in prison for banking violations, which far exceeded the zero to six months recommended by federal sentencing guidelines and the maximum sentence of six months for which prosecutors had agreed. <ref>[http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/02/serial-child-molester-dennis-hastert-get 'Serial Child Molester' Dennis Hastert Gets 15 Months for Something That Shouldn't Be Illegal]</ref> During his sentencing, the Judge (District Judge Thomas M. Durkin) called Hastert a 'serial child molester,' due to Hastert's involvement with several young men while he was working as wrestling coach during the 1960s and 1970s. <ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-dennis-hastert-sentencing-20160427-story.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Dennis Hastert, former U.S. House speaker, sentenced to 15 months in prison]</ref>

===May===
*[[May 10]] - Robert Rhodes of [[NAMBLA]] passed away May 10, 2016, in Clarksville, Arkansas, at the age of 70. He was an Adjudicator for the Veterans Administration; taught ESL at Inter American University of Puerto Rico in San Germán; received a Law Degree from the State of Massachusetts and a Master’s Degree in English as a Second Language; was an Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and a lifetime member of the DAV.<ref Name =obituarie> >[https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?CFID=29b629fa-a584-4847-aad6-ed0ba587e157&CFTOKEN=0&o_id=3718024&fh_id=14856 Obituaries for Robert James Rhodes]</ref> <ref name=BCpost>[https://www.boychat.org/messages/1475920.htm Bob Rhodes]</ref>

*[[May 27]] - Glee’ Star Mark Salling Indicted for Child Pornography. <ref>[http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/mark-salling-child-porn-glee-1201784653/ ‘Glee’ Star Mark Salling Indicted for Child Pornography]</ref><ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3396012/Mark-Salling-attempts-maintain-sense-normalcy-wake-child-porn-arrest-hits-gym-Los-Angeles.html Disgraced actor Mark Salling attempts to maintain a sense of normalcy in wake of child porn arrest as he hits the gym in Los Angeles]</ref>

===June===
*[[June 5]] - The first annual [[BL choice awards 2016|BL Choice Awards Show]] was broadcast on [[WEIRD Radio]].

==Events==
* [[BoyWiki:Current events | Current events]]
* [[International Boylove Day]] Dates: [[June 25]], 2016 and [[December 17]], 2016
* [[Archive of news articles‎ (2016)|Archive of news articles‎]] from 2016

== Births ==
See [[:Category:Births]]

==Deaths==
See [[21st-century deaths]]

*[[May 10]] - Robert Rhodes of [[NAMBLA]].<ref Name =obituarie /> <ref name=BCpost />

*[[January 1]] - An unidentified 15-year-old [[loved boy]] was murdered by the Islamic State (Isis) in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor. <ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/isis-15-old-thrown-roof-205019320.html Isis: 15-year-old thrown from roof for being gay while Daesh chief he's caught with is spared]</ref>

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Billy Byars, Sr.

2016-04-21T02:32:56Z

Samwise12345:

'''Billy Byars, Sr.''' (1901-1965) was the adoptive father of [[Billy Byars, Jr.]], owner of prominent naturist publisher [[Lyric International]], and producer of the feature film ''[[The Genesis Children]]''.

The elder Byars was a Texas oil man, sometimes referred to as "Humble Oil millionaire Billy Byars.”[Anthony Summers, ''Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover''. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993, p. 329]. A history through 1948 of Humble Oil (which changed its name to Exxon in 1973) lists not a single Byars among the founders, officers, or executives. [Larson, Henrietta M. and Porter, Kenneth Wiggins. ''History of Humble Oil & Refining Company; a study in industrial growth'', New York, Harper, 1959]. Whatever his Humble connection, there is no question that Byars was a prominent oilman, and even a small part of Exxon is a very large thing. There is a Northeast Byars Oil Field in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, latitude 34.93222 Longitude: -96.98639.[[http://www.brainygeography.com/features/OK.oilfield/northeastbyarsoilfield.html]]

In an interview, Byars, Jr. the interviewer described his late father as "a Tyler, Texas wildcatter" and a friend of presidents and of Pancho Villa. She says "Starting with nothing, Byars, Sr. became a millionaire at twenty, went broke at twenty-one and hit millionaire status again by age twenty-five."[[Viola Hegyi Swisher, Generating "''The Genesis Children''" , ''After Dark'' September 1972, p. 18]]. Mr Byars adopted his son Billy, Jr, in 1936 and the next year, in the midst of the Depression, built a very substantial house in Tyler, Texas, where he was to live until his death in 1965 [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004]. He also owned a the Byars Royal Oaks Farm in Tyler, where he raised Black Angus cattle. [Eisenhower papers, infra]. The ''NY Times'' index lists no obituary.

Billy Byars, Sr. was a friend of J. Edgar Hoover. Summers says,
:"Byars was close to Edgar. They used adjacent bungalows at [Texas oilman Cliff] Murchison's California hotel each summer. The phone log for the Director’s office shows that, aside from calls to Robert Kennedy and the head of the Secret Service, Hoover called only one man on the afternoon the President was shot – Billy Byars."

Byars had also met Jack Ruby, who would kill Lee Harvey Oswald. [Summers, ''supra'', p. 329]

Byars was one of Lyndon Johnson’s financial backers when the Texas Senator sought the Presidential nomination in 1960. [Summers, ''ibid'', p 263]

Byars was also on close terms with President Eisenhower. The Eisenhower family was also from Tyler, Texas. A letter from Eisenhower begins,
:“Dear Mr. Byars: For the past several days I have seen a great deal of George and Mary Allen, who are visiting in Denver. George has told me so much about you and your venture in the raising of fine Black Angus cattle that although I am a stranger to you, I am tempted to write you a short note.”

:“My feeling is that some day I should like a chance to sit down and talk to you for an hour or so about the matter, because when once I get out of public life I hope to indulge in a modest way in the raising of Angus cattle.”

:“It is my habit during the fall and winter months to have periodic stag dinners at the White House. I wonder if you might be interested in coming to one of them during this season. If so, I could write to you later after my schedules are made out.”

[Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Billy G. Byars, 7 October 1954. In ''The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower'', ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1101. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996][[http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1101.cfm]]

Even in the era when the Presidency was less imperial than at present, notes of this nature cannot have been commonplace. Byars did attend the White House stag dinner on November 22.[''ibid'']

Billy Goebel Byars, Sr. was born October 6, 1901 and died on the same date in 1965.[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=Byars&firstname=Billy&nt=exact] Mr. Byars tends to appear on the Internet in connection with Kennedy assassination theories.

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Boy moment (dictionary)

2016-04-01T21:06:59Z

Samwise12345:

''This is the dictionary page for "boy moment." For the [[online message board]] of similar name, see [[BoyMoment.com]].''

{{Info box/dictionary|name=Boy moment
|pos= ''n.'' (boi) (mō′mənt)
|1= A short story about a boy.
|2= A memorable or pleasant brief encounter with a boy.
}}
A '''boy moment''', or '''BM''', is a moment taking place between a [[young friend]] and an [[adult friend]], or even between any adult and a [[boy]], that is memorable and has a positive effect on the outlook of the [[boylover]] or works to brighten up his day. The boy moment is an observation of a boy's behavior that may be either adorable or striking to the boylover, and is usually of an uplifting and positive manner.

For a boylover with intense spiritual and aesthetic appreciation for boys' behaviors and mannerisms, a boy moment can have an enormous impact on the boylover's outlook and will reinforce the very reasons why a boylover finds a boy so appealing and pleasant to be around.

==See also==
* [[Boy (relationship)]]

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Pedophiles on Parade:The Monster in the Media (Vol.1) (book)

2016-03-30T01:27:35Z

Samwise12345: Amazon.in

Pedophiles on Parade, Volume 1, is the first volume of a two-volume set, which is an excellent series on pedophilia. As such, ''it has been banned from all major on-line book-seller sites!'' But see http://www.amazon.in/Pedophiles-Parade-The-Monster-Media/dp/0915289008

Cover image: https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/2685603-M.jpg

==Book info==
*Paperback
*Publisher: David Sonenschein (1 September 1998)
*Language: English
*ISBN-10: 0915289008
*ISBN-13: 978-0915289004
*Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.5 cm

==Reviews==

:“Though Sonenschein focuses on American twentieth-century popular culture, he covers a great deal of historical ground. His may be the most detailed examination ever of the child molester. For this reason alone, it is an important contribution.” –- ''Journal of Homosexuality''

:“Pedophiles on Parade is probably the most in-depth look ever of adults who would have sex with children. It’s also the best. ...the most in-depth look ever... rich with thought-provoking observations. ...His is a biting, at times savage, critique informed by an historical perspective that brooks no interference from the surrounding culture. The result is must reading for those who wonder why individuals may now be stigmatized for life as ‘sexual predators,’ and given a life sentence for one or two instances of casual sex with a teenager.” -- ''Alternative Press Review''

:The best book on this subject!
:This unique book (actually there are two parts of this book) explains the phenomenon of pedophilia, its origins, history, the use of it in literature, movies, the changes of the meaning of pedophilia and of how society saw it before and how it sees it now... Really, if you are looking for a book to tells you a lot about people who are attracted to children this is the one. And even you can find inside one chapter that talks about children and their sexuality, something which is very hard to find. I would give much more than five stars for this book if I could. Thanks! -- Anonymous

==Author description==
Source: http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=David_Sonenschein

A sex researcher since 1961, anthropologist David Sonenschein has published or presented numerous papers in social science journals and before professional organizations, and has taught undergraduate and community courses in American culture and human sexualities. Best known for pioneering work on homosexuality and pornography, he was also a staff researcher at the Institute for Sex Research (founded by Alfred C. Kinsey) at Indiana University. He lives in Texas.

==Table of Contents==
''Pedophiles on Parade'', Volume I
*'''I. Introduction''' -- 1
*'''II. Part One: Popular Fiction'''
*Chapter 1: The Pedophile in Fiction -- 5
*Chapter 2: The Social Pedophile -- 23
*Chapter 3: The Fictional Victim -- 37
*Chapter 4: The Fictional Hero -- 58
*'''III. Part Two: Popular Fact'''
*Chapter 5: The Factual Pedophile -- 75
*Chapter 6: The Factual Victim -- 101
*Chapter 7: The Factual Hero -- 126
*Chapter 8: The Hero in Society -- 148
*'''IV. Afterword''' -- 182
*Notes -- 183
*References -- 220
*Filmography -- 238
*Index -- 240

From the author's website: http://davidsonenschein.com/pop1.html
<blockquote>
Using data collected over a decade, this volume documents popular ideas of adult-youth sexual relations from the mid-1970s into the 1990s, a period now known as the child sexual abuse hysteria. Looking critically at both fiction (including film) and journalism, core elements of villains, victims, and heroes are drawn out and shown to be interconnected. Sources widely distributed as well as those inaccessible to others are examined and tied to a variety of products and processes of American culture to yield the most complete and in-depth study yet available of this crucial period and issue.

'''During the 1980s, conceptions of the child molester and the child victim were based on simplistic or incorrect assumptions, incomplete or skewed data, and distorted by personal and institutional biases. The result has been an irrational panic extracting high costs financially, personally, and socially.'''

==INTRODUCTION==

It has been known for quite some time that there is a considerable variety of sexual relationships and events that occur between adults and non-adults. The consequences of those contacts and affairs are also known to cover a wide range, and the specific cultural and historical points at which they occur are of significant influence. But the associations commonly have been looked down upon, and despite clear evidence of variance, actual descriptive research has been quite rare. Professional views, at least initially, usually encode popular ethnocentric superstitions; consequently, the relationships and the individuals involved in them have long been defined and governed by agents whose intents have more to do with discipline and dominance than with empirical investigation and open access to information.

Beginning roughly in the mid-1970s, with seeming suddenness youth-adult sex became vehemently condemned, its varieties homogenized into a single image of horrendous abuse and exploitation. Participants became subjected to increasingly savage punishment, supporters were stigmatized, and those interested in critical research were ignored or censured.

The apparent explosion of condemnation actually had firm historical precursors coming from three cultural domains. One was the professional culture, a historically specific interrelated system of values, meanings, and socioeconomic relations that formed career paths for journalists, mental health and social workers, researchers, and legal and medical personnel. Drawing upon templates already in place, construction and punishment of “The Pedophile” followed all the same steps that had been used on other deliberately stigmatized sexual interests and behaviors in the past. The tools, methods, and assumptions of investigation, the styles of representation, the intentions of rehabilitation and elimination—all contained elements that predetermined the characterization of pedophiles and children. Theory and method were linear, causal, and object obsessed. The drive theory of sexuality, after a brief replacement by more complex and realistic explanations, reemerged to dominate with a new vehemence.

Another source was the political culture. The long present tension in America between reaction and liberalism became intensified by a fervid resurgence of religious and political fundamentalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some old antagonisms (such as feminism and patriarchal interests) found effective commonalities with an ease and rapidity surprising to those unaware of historical precedents. Classic liberalism continued its collapse begun several decades before the 1980s, leftist radicalism continued to splinter, and military wings of the right continued to gain members and armaments. Major segments of gay and lesbian movements were co-opted by mainstream and conservative mentalities. Feminism became professionalized and trivialized by academics, but more significantly, the movement fractured, attracting and encouraging totalitarian personalities who insisted on essentialist dogmas of belief and behavior. The children's liberation movement was suffocated by legal discourse and failed to replace itself over time. Old and new hostilities escalated into literal combat. War was explicitly declared, and rhetoric and imagery were major weapons.

The third domain helping construct the phenomenon was the popular culture, the subject of this study. It was here that traditional images and genre were drawn upon to characterize youth-adult sexual relationships. Adult-youth sex is overlaid by a number of themes, motifs, and narrative devices clustering around three essential elements of what constitutes a singular conception of “child molesting.” The three foci—the pedophile as villain, the juvenile as victim, and an adult as hero—require interdependent descriptions, settings, and plottings. These relatively stable connections have maintained historical consistency and ensured the popularity of the images for both the general public and professionals.

The emphasis of 1980s mainstream popular culture was on the highly emotional and aggressive presentation of villainy, victimage, and heroism. Assisted by professional and political cultures, the popular culture machine mass produced and marketed the three character types for universal consumption via familiar theatrical genre. Each was paraded before the society as an actor in a drama of cosmic proportions. Apocalyptic imagery was routed by moral hierarchies into sensational expositions from nearly all of the culture's information institutions. This made for good, often excellent and exciting entertainment, so much so that the high human and social costs were nicely hidden.

The approach used here to study this period is what has been called “culture history.” Its primary obligation is documentation. This data-oriented survey is on its most basic level a descriptive one, and I spend some time citing exemplary texts. These present the exact language used during the period—shrill and garbled language and contradictory imagery that both reflected and contributed to the era's reaction to youth-adult sex. When I began in 1984, no critical record was available of events constituting the abuse hysteria. Some have now begun to appear on selected events or issues, such as the McMartin case, Satanism, or “recovered memories;” these studies provide more detail and I am pleased to refer to the critical work of other researchers for additional data, though errors or misunderstandings are corrected in the present study.

Central to the language of the period are the labels “pedophile” and “pedophilia.” Like the words “homosexual,” “heterosexual,” or “pornography,” these are not empirical terms that describe stable, eternal, inherent, and universal forms or contents. They are the names of culturally grounded Western 19th century anxieties and aspirations for power, disturbances that still distort thinking and behavior well past the point of buffoonery. Rather than continually place these terms within quotation marks as they ought to be, it should be remembered that their use here refers to the limited and varied meanings of the time. Despite all of the near-fanatical efforts to instill an idea of “The Pedophile,” the concept remains specious. Since the objectivist or categorical approach has proven to be as embarrassing as it is destructive (it is ludicrous to try to speak of “The Heterosexual” or of any of the other old homogeneous simplicities as a unified and distinct configuration of motives and behaviors), the continued forced use of such language is based in other concerns, usually psychological, economic, or political.

Because they are symbolic rather than empirical, the use of such terms and ideas is also due to an uncritical acceptance of cultural inertia. The terms make references beyond themselves across cultural horizons and link themselves to historical traditions. Moreover, their importance is added to by their use, that is, their performance. Youth-adult sex was presented to the culture as theater, and actors, often backed by suitable soundtracks, enacted villainy, victimage, or heroism for (briefly) enthralled audiences, often on interactive bases: villains were booed or killed, victims were given a shoulder to cry on or were jailed, and heroes were cheered and allowed to escape prosecution for their abuses and crimes.

To add more depth to the documentation, when possible I try to trace certain images back as far as they may be recognizable to the contemporary reader, showing what meanings were intended or were found to be useful. Where I have enough data, I have tried to specify time spans and contexts a little more exactly. For some time I used to rail against facile expressions like “The Sixties,” but I now enjoy the simple-mindedness of it all, and the phrase is certainly fitting for the period's conception and treatment of history and individuals. “The period” as used here refers mostly to the 1980s, but covers a range from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.

I have avoided disciplinary theoretical discussions because the emphasis is upon description, and for other reasons. Although I make reference to such concerns when it seems appropriate, there is little citation of the professional literature. Such work should be done in the context of a separate study of the professional cultures that helped generate the panic. Almost all of the research on adult-non-adult sex is so badly flawed that little can be done to salvage what remains of the lives of its subjects, an expensive characteristic of sexology over a variety of topics since its inception.

The first four chapters of this volume are devoted to themes of adult-youth sex in popular genre fiction, in either textual or visual media. Most appeared in crime novels and film, though they were also seen in horror, science fiction, and domestic drama. The image of the child molester has long been a negative one, though the intensity has varied from bemusement to homicidal hatred. I am after the more generally accepted view as it developed and maintained itself in the popular culture—how it was used, from whence it came, its relation to other symbolic sets, and how it related to historical events and actions. Tied to the image of the molester are the images of victims and heroes and these are examined along the same lines. I have generally omitted works, usually with more artistic non-genre pretensions, that try for a balanced, understanding, or positive view of sex between adults and non-adults. I have also avoided the very rare novels about sexual children and the many coming-of-age narratives, and I have not included the growing number of novels about adults and youth who have sexual interests in each other, such as those found in the rich and rapidly developing boy-love subculture.

In Part II, the focus for non-fiction is on print and broadcast journalism. It is here that the professional and the political cultures have important and explicit links. While sometimes present in fiction, it is in non-fiction that the expert, via the journalist, is automatically and repeatedly brought to the fore to authorize the images and assertions of fact for mass markets. Further, many of these experts aligned themselves with particular political or religious interests because such commitments purported to solve what were presented as individual and social problems. As in Part I, where possible I try to indicate some of the historical movement of images within the period. Immediately noticeable will be the reappearance of several of the same images and devices that were seen in fiction. It is precisely that repetition that I want to strike the reader. The period was characterized by cultural separation and fragmentation; for the images to be effective in that structural context, pervasiveness and mere duplication had to substitute for unity. The message of the monstrous pedophile and the ravaged victim was generally consistent despite coming from a variety of sources, though each had its special emphasis and justification. No matter where one turned during that time, images of the threatening molester and the threatened child saturated the cultural environment.

In volume 2, the second part of this study moves to a more interpretive level first by providing historical data on the persistence of key images and themes and by noting events in the 1980s that supported the particular conception of the pedophile and the social behaviors that derived from that image. Secondly, the analysis comments upon the consequences of America's use of these images as it relates to what have been basic social and political meanings of a relatively young democracy.

==AFTERWORD==

From this descriptive overview, the data clearly show that the 1980s child sexual abuse hysteria was media-driven, offering documentation, once again, that journalism largely continues to fail as a source of reliable information. Exceptions did appear, but they were late in coming and had minimal effect, particularly at the local level of media practice. Further, the treatment of this issue was different only in degree, not in kind, from the journalistic construction of other issues and individuals.

Beyond that, the data also reveal the inability or unwillingness of other institutions to correspond to their public myths, either because of corruption or incompetence. The criminal justice system is the most obvious example, but just as pervasively, professional cultures also exposed their prior, sometimes exclusive, allegiances to careerism, a necessary commitment in the absence of advertised critical intellectual abilities. Across the board, stupidity and viciousness, protected from challenge by the obliviousness and cowardice of any opposition, ruled. It was one of the best expressions of a culture based economically, politically, and morally, on consumption and waste.

But it was fun. It was entertaining, pleasurable to many, and to not just a few, erotic. Here was a chance to publicly and privately enjoy forbidden, and for not just a few, unacknowledged desires.

While satisfying on an elementary level, the analysis of cultural images can also tell us much about the personal and social relations upon which a culture operates. Part myth, part reality, the images must be matched against behavior to distill that which seems to matter, that is, what meanings, professed or unprofessed, become translated into concrete action and enforced law. For this period, the images assumed their own reality, moving their consumers, unconscious or uncaring of their source, to connect to their objects by electrified reeducation or, just as commonly, by spittle, a fist, or a bullet.

This has been so for a long, long time. Broader and older streams of perception and belief helped reduce what happened in the 1980s to a mere repetition, its histories readily accessible but conveniently forgotten, its negations deliberately ignored. Recurrences continue to accumulate, making Foucault’s “archaeology of knowledge” a wistful optimism. Autopsy becomes the necessary analytic approach, continued in Volume 2.

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=="Child-saver's assumptions" (a quote)==
<blockquote>"Indeed, the justifying assumption of child savers is that children are by definition incapable of taking care of or managing themselves, either by thought or deed. It was also commonly said children have been 'conditioned' to obey adults - all adults. This unquestioning obedience combined with the pedophile's need for domination, makes any child susceptible to 'idolatry' of the abuser. ... Kee MacFarlane, then a heroine of the anti-abuse movement [wrote]: '[Children] are easily intimidated. You can convince them of almost anything, and if you can't, you can trick them or bribe them.'"</blockquote>

=See also=
[[Pedophiles on Parade: Popular Imagery of Moral Hysteria (Vol.2) (book)]]

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