Krivacska had the audacity to submit to the Journal of the Institute for Psychological Therapies, here in the US. Just the fact that they would publish this paper and write a biased disclaimer which in no way represents the truth of the matter (the victims' ages and the comment that these were allegations--they were convictions!!) throws into question, for me, anything this group publishes. Maybe we need to take a look at their list of authors. Did Ayres write for them? Here's some info about them:
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/about.htm
The articles and authors:
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/index.htm
Please spend a little time here as you'll start to see a very strong bias. Do we doubt that Ayres subscribed to this journal? In so many ways, many of his contemporaries were fanning his flames.
And the disclaimer I mentioned above:
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume11/j11_1_2.htm
Editor's Note:
Dr. James Krivacska has been convicted of child sexual abuse based upon allegations by two mentally retarded men who were students at the special school. Dr. Krivacska was the school's psychologist. He maintains his innocence and the conviction is on appeal. He wrote this article while an inmate at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center at Avenel, New Jersey, the facility for sexual offenders. He has previously conducted research and written journal articles and a book about sexual abuse prevention programs. With Dr. John Money he edited the 1994 edition of The Handbook of Forensic Sexology: Biomedical & Criminological Perspectives."
You'll notice that a Ralph Underwager was editor for quite a while. Here's a 1991 interview with him about pedophilia--in the Netherlands. Check back and compare this with the work of Dr. Floyd Martinson. A lot of similarities, event the connection with the Lutheran Church. OK, fair warning, hold onto your lunch. Here's a statement from Dr. Underwager speaking as a psychiatrist and a theologian:
"....They [pedophiles] can say that what they want is to find the best way to love.
I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people. A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I've made."
Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, "You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it's no good. You're putting me in prison, you're doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit."
What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will."
Mercy--I'm starting to think that our sociology/sexology/child psychiatry textbooks are crammed full of works by these "false prophets". Do professors check out the backgrounds of these guys before they teach this garbage? You'll note that the this journal must still be up and running as there's one for 2009.