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• 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 was in danger of being shut down along with all Free Spirits resources due to money problems.

• APA decision (2013) – Overview of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association decision to remove "sexual orientation" from the DSM-5 entry on Pedophilia.

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• 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)

• Jailed Canadian alleged to be at centre of international child-porn crackdown - Toronto resident Brian Way, 42, of Azov Films faces two dozen charges, including multiple counts of making and distributing child pornography. (Yahoo News)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

In Other News

• 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)

• 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)

• Glasgow teacher Peter McGinniss jailed for grooming boy - Teacher jailed 2 yrs for taking a boy on trips during the school holidays and took the boy on overnight stays to a hotel and a log cabin. (BBC, 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)

• 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)

Art and Entertainment

Coming Soon from Noel Films - They Returned

They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened. No clues or signs are left, other than the fact that, as we discover later, two of them were mutilated...

New on DVD

• The Way, Way Back (2013) - (Available on DVD: Oct 22, 2013) - Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

• North Sea Texas (2011) - A teenage boy's search for love finds him infatuated with an older boy who lives nearby.

• Cache Cash (1994) (film) - (Just released on DVD) Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.