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Masturbation in kindergarten................................................................... 05
Sexual transgressions............................................................................ 05
Just a game.......................................................................................... 09
Pedagogical dilettantism......................................................................... 10
Wave of indignation.............................................................................. 12
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By means of the brochure "Body, Love and Playing Doctor", edited by the
German Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), the Child Protection
Switzerland encouraged parents, relatives, and child care workers to
perform sex acts on children. After a heated public debate, the Child
Protection Switzerland reacted and announced the withdrawal of the
booklet.
genitals can "sometimes trigger feelings of arousal in the adults." (p. 27)
"So it is only a sign of healthy development of your child, when he makes
an extensive use of the opportunity to procure himself pleasure and
satisfaction." (p. 25) When girls from 1-3 years "prefer using objects for
this purpose", one should not "use this as a pretext to prevent
masturbation." (p. 25) The guide would "appreciate if fathers,
grandmothers, uncles, or nannies also looked into this publication and felt
encouraged – please do all feel called upon!"
What is good for the parents must also be good for national child care. On
21 February 2005, a symposium was held in Hamburg on the subject
"Cuddling, Feeling, Playing Doctor". This conference was organized by the
Ministry of Science and Health (BWG) in cooperation with the Hamburg
Association for Health Promotion (HAG). Over 200 educators and
multipliers from the health and education sector took part in the
conference. Much applause and approval was given to Ina-Maria Philipps
from the Institute for Sexual Education (ISP) and to Prof. Uwe Sielert from
the University of Kiel and the scientific advisory board of the ISP. There
were speakers from various organizations, including Pro Familia, the Child
Protection Center Hamburg, the Family Planning Center Hamburg, the
Federal Center for Health Education, and the Ministry of Science and
Health. The goal is to introduce early childhood sex education to the three
million children in the existing 50,000 day care centers, with the help of
373,000 skilled workers. A good early childhood sex education, it is
argued, contributes to the healthy growing up of children and promotes
the development of a healthy personality, while day care has an
educational mandate which implies sexual education from the very
beginning!
According to the ISP, day care centers and kindergartens are responsible
for early childhood sex education. For this purpose, sexual activities are to
be actively promoted among the children with the help of games. Like and
dislike should be experienced and acted out physically. "Playing doctor",
"masturbation", "playing sexual intercourse", "tongue kissing" and "nude
dancing" are a permanent part of instruction. (p. 27) [According to the
ISP,] There is no need to worry. After all, the children would be
supervised by professionally trained staff, who know perfectly well what is
in the interest of the children: "Children imitating sexual intercourse easily
produce some disconcertment among adults. In my opinion, this
excitement is usually not appropriate, provided that both children like to
take part in this game; because presumably it is an enjoyable rubbing for
the boy, whereas for the girl it is sort of a trial action, similar to giving a
baby doll the breast." (p. 11) According to the concept of Silke Moritz and
Sven Vöth from the Pro Familia Landesverband Hamburg e.V., sex
education means "to make a space/room available to the children within
which they can collect and share information about sexuality and also
experience it, quite naturally and free from fear or inhibition." (p. 26)
best inform the parents that the children's sexual experiences are
important for those young persons?" (p. 26)
Masturbation in kindergarten
This refers to the preschool teacher and director of the kindergarten, Ms.
Pia Friis. In a journal she wrote about how the stuff should handle
children's sex games, gave advice how to deal with that, and pointed to
the example of her kindergarten, where "all types of sex games" were
allowed. The left-wing Telegraph said: "They can look at and explore their
bodies, play doctor or father and mother, masturbate, or dance around
naked." And supported by other experts, she had requested not to impede
those games, but rather promote them. If the staff meets children who
masturbate or are engaged in other sexual activities, they should
encourage them with a "Well, is that beautiful, what you are doing?" or
"Does this feel good?" Pia Friis gets support from experts. Thore Langfeldt,
a renowned psychologist, says: "Only when children know what sexuality
is, they can also say no to it. Children find it easier to report assaults if
they already have a relationship to sexuality, and they can set limits
better." So children should already gain comprehensive sexual experience
in earliest childhood to be able to recognize and fend off sexual abuse
better.
Sexual transgressions
The author of the guide "Body, Love, and Playing Doctor", Ina-Maria
Philipps, was also present at the Hamburg conference. She remarked that
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Parents, close relatives, and nannies, are invited to give the children a
positive body feeling by fondling and kissing their genitals. The child sees
himself as a sexual being: "The chance of a satisfying sexual life lies in
recognizing and experiencing one's own pleasure. An education that is
friendly to sexuality allows the child a positive body awareness, curiosity,
and fun of himself and of other kids. (p. 33) Children learn to understand
their need for individual satisfaction as a fundamental right against society
and their social environment.
So, if the child feels good, this is in his best interests. And as long as all
children feel fun and joy in experiencing sexual practices together, there is
nothing to object. Even the well-known educational brochure against the
sexual abuse of children, "My body belongs to me!" conveys the same
message. Sexual exploitation is only present when "an adult or older
youth abuses his power to satisfy his own needs". "Exploitation only
occurs when a person of age abuses a child specifically for his own sexual
arousal or satisfaction," says a treatise written at the HFS Zentralschweiz
[College for Social Work, Central Switzerland]. This means that any abuse
takes place only if the initiative does not come from the child. But if,
during the child's "search for maximal pleasure gain", it comes to sexual
acts, a misuse must consequently be excluded. In fact, it is little
astonishing that the information brochure of the Child Protection
Switzerland, wrapped in soothing words, represents essentially no other
ideology than the guide "Body, Love and Playing Doctor". "A good body
awareness and an age-appropriate sex education are the basis for the
development of a healthy self-confidence and important aspects of
prevention. If children have a holistic knowledge of their bodies and have
a language for sexuality, it is easier for them to recognize sexual abuse
and violence and to talk about it. By promoting a positive body
awareness, we enable the girls and boys to experience themselves as
unique and valuable and to be proud of their bodies. [...] It is important
that girls and boys become familiar with the variety of feelings, and to
encourage them to take their feelings seriously and to express them."
Children should therefore recognize and fulfill their sexual needs, so that
they are able to recognize abuse. Let's repeat: according to the brochure
"My body belongs to me!", there is only abuse when the child does not
feel good any more. "Children have the right to decide how, when, where,
and by whom they want to be touched." A distinction is made between
"good, bad, and strange touches. "It is important that children are
expressly permitted to reject unpleasant or strange touches." So the child
has to determine himself which touches he likes and which not. He should
have the right to decide for himself how, when, where, and by whom he
wants to experience "maximal pleasure." Certainly, it is important to be
able to trust one's feelings and to correctly assess an abuse situation.
However, the claim that effective prevention presupposes an early
childhood sexual exploration trip, is positively absurd.
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That sexualized children claim the right to live out their sexual desires -
whatever that may involve – is also well-known to pedophiles. After all,
they argue, children's sexuality must not be put at a disadvantage in
comparison with adult sexuality. Should we restrain a child who, in his
eagerness to experiment and in his search for maximal pleasure gain,
feels like having sex with older children, adolescents or with adults or
persons of the same sex? The latter is already promoted in kindergarten
as part of early childhood sex education. [...] In order to avoid
unnecessary limitation for the children, abolishment of the age limit for
children in sexual relations with older people will be discussed again in a
not too distant future. The age should be abolished in the child's interest.
Of course with the focus on the child's needs. "Children are as different as
their desires," the pedophile lobby working in the background will argue.
The "right of the child and of the adult to maintain relations with persons
of their choice" must be respected. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
It is not surprising that the sex pedagogues' demand for early childhood
sex education and experience is in line with the demands of the pedophile
lobby. End of May 2006, it became known that pedophiles in the
Netherlands wanted to found a "Party for Charity, Freedom and Diversity"
(NVD). Among the demands of the new party are the sex education of
young children, the legal possession of child pornography, and the
legalization of sexual intercourse with only twelve-year-olds. The longer-
term goal is to abolish the age limit for sexual relations with minors.
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For the scandalous work "The Pedosexual Complex", the German Green
Party politician and gay activist Volker Beck authored a chapter "Change
the criminal law?". In it one can find Beck's infamous statement that the
struggle for equality between homosexuality and heterosexuality "can
prevent the consolidation of a sexually repressive climate," which is a
prerequisite for "being able some day to take up the fight for an - at least
partial - decriminalization of pedosexuality". This strategic vision reveals
the actual plans of the pedophile movement. Today the establishment of
equal rights for homosexuals is well advanced; now the topic of equal
rights for pedophiles is insinuated into public debate – in a well-
camouflaged manner. [However, Volker Beck now clearly distances
himself from those former ambitions!]
Just a game...
masturbate - and particularly suitable for that, it is said, are the photos by
Will McBride, the editor of "Show me!" (p. 64) The illustrated book "Show
me!", which will be mentioned later on, is explicitly recommended. (p. 79)
If any of the children do not want to join in the respective sex games, the
educator – according to Beate Martin – feels that "with these children
there must be something wrong!" (p. 46 ff)
Furthermore, Beate Martin of Pro Familia complains in her book that there
is rarely any difference in the reactions of educators and parents, "when
children of kindergarten age play sexual intercourse." "When a boy and a
girl are trying to introduce the penis into the vagina, this is blocked on the
spot, regardless of whether the children are having fun or not." (p. 45)
Pedagogical dilettantism
In the information brochure "Show me!" that was published in 1974 and in
which there are pornographic illustrations of children's sexuality, Helmut
Kentler wrote the foreword. The 196-page book was commented by the
Basel child psychologist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt. The book shows,
among other things, two naked children play around with their bodies and
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nestle to one another their genitals, or a child who has his finger in his
butt. In 1978 already, the German magazine "Zeit" labelled this as
"educational transgression". In the 90s, those illustrations led to violent
protests. Since then, the book is in some U.S. states under the offense of
possession of child pornography publications. In 1977, an editor in chief
was sentenced to a fine by the Federal Court of Switzerland for publishing
immoral pictures that were harmful to young people: in June 1976, an
article on youth sexuality, co-authored by him and titled "More ignorant
than they appear...", had come out that was illustrated with pictures from
"Show me!".
The author of the guide "Body, Love, and Playing Doctor", Ms. Ina-Maria
Philipps, as well as Prof. Uwe Sielert from the Kiel University, and also the
author of the book "Love - Cuddle - Smooch", Ms. Beate Martin, are active
workers for the Dortmund Institute for Sexual Education [ISP]. Sielert is
also the Managing Director of the Association for Sex Education (GSP) for
the variety of sexualities and lifestyles. They all take an active influence
on the German educational system, through publications, through the
Hamburg Conference, or through Pro Familia. The ISP is in close contact
with the German Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) and other
organizations such as child protection centers, family planning centers, the
Office for Science and Health, and the High School of Social Work (HAS) in
Lucerne [Switzerland]. Occasionally, their brochures have also been
distributed in Switzerland, with the aim of making parents - but also the
educational system – more sensitive to early childhood sex education.
Considering the demands of the Institute, it becomes clear that the ISP is
a playground for pedophile thought. It reveals itself as a religious center
with the belief in an early childhood sexual freedom. The Institute aspires
to fulfill a mission, i.e. to sexualize children from early childhood, [which is
also the aim of] the pedophile lobby. Hidden from the public, it pulls the
strings and takes an active influence on political decisions in the
educational system, and on sex education. There is hardly any scope left
[for other concepts]. Parents who take a critical view of this "freedom"
that is forced upon their children by the State, are suspected of acting
against the children's interests. Children who do not join the particular sex
games thus signal that something is wrong with them.
[...]
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Wave of indignation
There were several critical articles in the German daily press. Experts had
their say in the KÖLNER EXPRESS article "Should we educate our children
like that?" by Jasper Juckel. According to Juckel, the brochure propagated
"unsettling sex tips" for parents. Prof. Thomas Schirrmacher assumes that
the stroking of the clitoris and the giving of pet names for female genitals
by the fathers will be judged by any court as "abuse of minors". The
brochure is designated "unrealistic and hazardous". Irene Johns from the
Kinderschutzbund [Child Protection Association] in Schleswig-Holstein
expresses her concern that "pedophiles can use such official guidance as a
justification". "Children who are to explore their parents' genitals – that is
not acceptable," said the chief of the Hannover Institute for Child
Psychology, Wolfgang Bergmann. The demand for mutual sexual
stimulation of the parents' and children's genitals encountered fairly
unanimous rejection and caused numerous protests by German citizens.
As a result, the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) was forced to
withdraw the brochure from circulation and put the PDF documents offline.
The Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen rejected any
responsibility: she referred to the red-green legacy, for it was not possible
for her to read everything. [It was Dr. von der Leyen who finally had the
brochure withdrawn!]
[...]
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Source:
http://www.staatsgewalt.ch/dokumente/artikel/home/sexualerziehung_080
515.pdf