SUNY professor under review after ‘reprehensible’ video emerges of him supporting pedophilia

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[–]FlippyKing 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

His second premise is invalid on the face of it. When he says "imagine she consented" can not be because she is not able to at 12. It is like dividing by zero. That he is unaware of this is frightening, that anyone takes his class is disappointing, but that he is not teaching middle school is a blessing I guess. He might disagree with that last part though.

[–]Lehman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

she is not able to at 12

This is not necessarily true, as even mainstream opinion on older prepubescent children now holds that they can give informed consent to life-changing medical procedures. Informed consent will always be an arbitrary legal concept. With regard to sex, even assuming present taboos, simple (yes/no) consent is sufficient enough to predict that outcomes will likely be positive or neutral.

In a study entitled “Assessing competency to consent to sexual activity in the cognitively impaired population”, by Carrie Hill Kennedy, a “Sexual Consent and Education Assessment” instrument was used, with two dimensions, “sexual knowledge” and “safety practices”, indicating the capacity to make safe decisions. Those judged competent had, on average, an IQ of 65 and an adaptive behaviour age of 9.4 years.

If an adult with a mental age of nine has the capacity to consent to sex, it is not obvious why an average child of nine would be lacking in that capacity, especially if provided with the requisite information through sex education.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If an adult with a mental age of nine has the capacity to consent to sex

The mentally handicapped also have the desires of an adult, and they're going to do it anyways. An adult with a child's mind is one thing, a child with a child's mind is another.

[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, you found a study. "The" science is not established on one or 3 studies, but on clear establishment reproducible results. The majority of studies today across many fields are not reproducible. They are BS. The vast majority of studies are worthless, and ones that are not must be reproduced by independent researchers before any truth they might point to can be narrowed down and found. There's nothing "mainstream" about one study that is in crisis. Have you heard about the crisis of irreproducibility and how psych is the most effected field? One study from that fields says more about your hopes than it does about anything else.

Kennedy is a psychologist and the problem of irreproducibility in psych is called a crisis, it might be where the problem is the worst. A study in a field that is overflowing with bad studies to the point where the field is in crisis and some question if it can rightly be called a science anymore should mean nothing unless you are holding out hope that it is right.

Well, thanks for outing yourself as a pervert and a threat to children, "Lehman". At least there's that.