Pat Califia
Pat Califia is an American "LGBT" activist and pornographic writer. Born a woman in 1952, she became a lesbian and then a "transsexual" and now calls herself “Patrick”. She wrote a long-running column in the homosexual magazine The Advocate, giving advice on relationship and family matters, from the perspective of somebody who advocates pedophilia and sado-masochism (BDSM). While a lot of the feminist movement tried to disassociate itself from those two pursuits, Califia enthusiastically embraced them. She provides one more example of the inextricable connection of homosexuality and pedophilia.
Connections with Pedophilia
In a 2-part article in The Advocate in 1980, Califia attacked age of consent laws and demanded to "liberate children and adolescents". In a later article “Feminism, Pedophilia and Children’s Rights”, written in 1991 for Paidika, she upheld these views and insisted that there was something called “the sexual rights of young people”. She ridicules attempts to stamp out child pornography and insists that it is innocuous: “When most people think of child pornography, they imagine full-color movies and magazines that show adults raping prepubescent children. In fact, most of the material consisted of black and white photo magazines. The bulk of the imagery was of nude children or teens. A minority of images showed young people being sexual with each other, and a very tiny proportion of it showed adults engaged in sexual conduct with minors.” In this and many respects, her article is inaccurate. Police and others investigating child pornography report that huge amounts of videos are now being made, using real children, some aged two or less, in scenes of violence, torture and degradation.
Califia ridicules investigations into pedophile rings and allegations of ritual abuse, both of which she dismisses as fantasy caused by “panic” and “hysteria”. In fact, a 1993 survey by the American Bar Association's Center on Children and Family Law determined that 26% of prosecutors nationwide have handled cases involving ‘ritualistic sexual abuse.’ The ABA website lists dozens of cases in every state of the USA and abroad during the past thirty years. Many resulted in the deaths of victims, about half of whom are boys. It adds, “Many ritual child abuse cases never are prosecuted due to the disbelief of authorities or the unlikelihood that young, severely traumatized children will be able to withstand cross-examination.” [1]
Califia even suggests that the idea of children being molested by carers is invented to discourage women from trusting their children to nurseries at all, and is meant to trap women in the home. She writes, “adults need to accept the reality of youth sexuality and give young people the information they need to cope with it, including access to birth control and abortion.” She soon lapses into leftwing jargon according to which any defense of the age of consent is “rabidly phobic” and pedophilia is “cross-generational relationships.” She uses the specious argument that opposing pedophilia is analogous to “racism, classism, able-bodyism, looksism, coupleism and… ageism,” and concludes that the same judgments can simply be cut and pasted from one issue to another without any consideration of the widely differing factors involved. [2] [3]
