Posted by cubbybear on November 24, 2004, at 5:14:28
In reply to Frontal Lobe Tumor causes Pedophilia in a Man, posted by lostforwards on November 23, 2004, at 16:35:04
> This is burnt out.
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> The title of this thread could easily pass for a headline in the National Enquirer. I was hoping that the meaning of the slang phrase "burnt out" (with which I was unfamiliar) would mean inaccurate, illogical, fallacious and irresponsible (yellow) journalism. These days, sex hysteria has been so ingrained in the population at large that it doesn't surprise me one bit that some individual would compose an article of some fully untested, irresponsible supposition linking a brain tumor to what most people would call sexual deviance. It would then follow that all people who display paedophiliiac tendencies should be hauled off to the operating room to have their frontal lobes checked. This was just the sort of thinking that went on around the turn of the century when surgeons performed routine operations on the brain when insanity was suspected.. During the Middle Ages, holes were drilled into people's heads to let the evil spirits out.
With the current climate of intolerance and knee-jerk labeling as it is, those who might be diagnosed with a paraphilia or other sexual abnormality through DSM-IV had better be careful--they might next be suspected of having a growth on the brain. . Oh excuse me, Sorry for the long rant. . .
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