[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 11, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H2933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MUST NOT BE TOLERATED

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, May is Victims of Pornography Month. Today I 
want to mention an outrage:
  The American Psychological Association recently published a study 
suggesting that sexual relationships between adults and children are 
less harmful than believed and might actually be positive for 
``willing'' children.
  My colleagues heard correctly.
  The authors of this study attacked the term ``child sexual abuse'' in 
favor of the term ``adult-child sex.'' They conclude that child sexual 
abuse is not wrong unless the adult sexual encounter is unwanted by the 
child.
  May I suggest that this outrageous junk science, as Dr. Laura 
Schlessinger calls it, is very offensive? All of us who are parents 
should be offended by this effort to normalize child sexual abuse. 
Child sexual abuse does result in long-term psychological harm, and it 
must not be tolerated.
  Shame on the American Psychological Association for giving a forum 
for such dangerous and unprofessional propaganda for pedophilia.

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