Yes, I'll continue. Thank you very much.
The conference themes were that:
Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society
“Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult
An adult's desire to have sex with children is “normative”
—according to one of the topics of this convention—
pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another
“The majority of pedophiles are gentle and [normal]
The [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] DSM should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile, and should have “a minimal focus on social control,” rather than obsessing about “the need to protect children”.
The specific objective of this conference was to present papers normalizing pedophilia in order to bring pressure on the American Psychological Association to reclassify pedophilia so as to reduce the stigma attached to the practitioners. According to B4U-ACT:
No one chooses to be emotionally and sexually attracted to children or adolescents. The cause is unknown; in fact, the development of attraction to adults is not understood.
The group goes on to say that it does not advocate treatment to change feelings of attraction to children or adolescents. This is the same type of reasoning that was used to bring other disorders into acceptance by the American Psychological Association, and this concerns us greatly, so we're very interested in having a very tightly phrased definition, if you're going to define anything that would specifically exclude pedophiles.
This isn't made public in the general media, but this is information that the committee should be aware of. This is not an unknown conspiracy. This has been going on for quite a while, so there's an objective to have wide-open definitions so that we can progress, supposedly, to this end.