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November 9, 2017

Rethinking the Link between Sexual Repression and Sexual Abuse

Deprived, or depraved?

During the pedophilia scandals within the Catholic Church, serious experts and peddlers of pop psychoanalysis alike claimed that the fault lay with Christian sexual ethics. Without healthy outlets for their libidos, the argument went, priests directed their passions toward children. Thus, a report published this summer by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology described the perpetrators as “psychosexually immature, psychosexually maldeveloped, sexually deprived, and deeply frustrated.” In light of the recent scandals emerging from Hollywood, Naomi Schaefer Riley argues that these explanations can no longer be taken seriously:

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November 9, 2017

  1. Only Israel Can Preserve Jerusalem as a Holy City for Three Faiths

    The historical record is clear.

  2. Why Israel Vowed to Protect a Pro-Assad Syrian Village, and Why That’s Risky

    Jerusalem must maintain its covenant with the Druze while staying out of the Syrian civil war.

  3. Being Anti-Nazi in 2017 Doesn’t Require Courage or Conviction

    It doesn’t even require refraining from anti-Semitism.

  4. How Halakhah Differs from Philosophy in Solving the Trolley Problem

    Balancing law and intuition.

  5. Rethinking the Link between Sexual Repression and Sexual Abuse

    Deprived, or depraved?