Vanessa succeeds in awakening guilt in French society for its complicity with the pedophilia defended by many of its left-wing intellectuals.
The sexuality in humans it follows a evolutionary pattern Just like other areas, such as language, motor development, bowel and bladder control, cognition, etc., children gradually become aware of the differences between... sexual organs between boys and girls, such as the fact that touching their genitals gives them pleasure. This is not new to parents, nor to all of us who work with children. childhood "masturbation"Not only is it not something to be ashamed of, but it's a normal part of sexual development. Hence the need for children to learn about their bodies and to experience this discovery of their sexual organs and their potential to provide pleasure naturally. Ultimately, it's nothing more than a self-exploratory activity absolutely necessary for harmonious psychosexual development.
However, treating childhood sexual experience as if it were adult sexuality is a serious mistake that can cause serious disorders, including promiscuityespecially during the most turbulent stage of human development: puberty/adolescenceSexuality education involves teaching children to experience it responsibly. Sexuality goes beyond mere genital pleasure, as it is integrated into the personality, into the whole person, mediates our socio-emotional life, and facilitates our coexistence with others. Healthy sexuality involves knowing how to manage, with freedom and emotional autonomy, the positive and negative consequences of experiencing it with others and with oneself. The sexual act is fully and humanly satisfying if it forms part of a plot built on desire, positive emotion towards the other and the certainty of a correspondence of complicity and feelingsWe like to be treated as human beings and are frustrated by feeling like mere objects of pleasure. Therefore, sexual intercourse is nothing more than the release of sexual desire; it is in no way love. The act of sex without positive feelings differs from what animals do only in that human beings will almost certainly experience an existential void and personal dissatisfaction within a relatively short period. This would partly explain the high frequency of sexual encounters with multiple partners, without the person feeling truly satisfied or valued from an experiential perspective.
Within this evolving framework of sexuality and affection lie the greatest possibilities for a child to be victimized by pedophiles. Children who grow up with emotional deprivation, whether due to family or social circumstances, those who suffer from emotional disorders and/or cognitive difficulties, are especially vulnerable to the sexual demands of manipulative, seductive, narcissistic, and unscrupulous adults.
We must distinguish between pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophiliaThe first refers to sexual attraction to minors who do not yet show signs of puberty; hebephilia occurs when the minor shows signs of pubertal development (also known as Lolita complex), and ephebophilia from 13-15 years old (early stages of adolescence). The DSM-5 It does not make these types of subdivisions, although they were discussed during its development by the Committee of Experts.
In a time when there is so much talk about the autonomy of the minorRegarding respect for their freedom, it is not difficult to find some suspicious and self-serving spokespeople who defend consent and the absence of violence as the only barriers to sexual relations between minors and adults. In fact, the age of consent It varies from country to country. In Spain, the legal age for the age of majority is 16, although until 2015 it was 13, one of the lowest. This increase was ultimately decided against the wishes of the PSOE and UPyD parties. The aim was to bring Spain in line with other European countries: Ireland, 17; the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Norway, 16; and France and the Netherlands, 15. "Surprisingly," the Vatican had the lowest age at 12.
Vanessa Springora and her book "Consent".
Vanessa grew up in a family environment with significant emotional deprivation. At the age of 13, she accompanied her mother to a luncheon with writers and artists. There she met the pedophile writer. Gabriel MatzneffHe showered her with attention and feigned affection. For the first time, she felt loved and important, yielding to the desires of the pedophile and promiscuous Gabriel Matzneff, when she was 14 and he was 50. It was a wonderful idyll as long as the lie remained as if it were the truth. She discovers Gabriel's multiple infidelities with other teenagers younger than herself. She realizes that she has an expiration date as she grows older. She discovers this when she grooms herself like any other teenager her age and Gabriel reacts harshly, criticizing this behavior because she looks older. Age is the only attraction, or the great impediment, to maintaining a sexual relationship with a pedophile. Finally, taking advantage of a trip Gabriel makes to the Philippines, one of those trips he takes to abuse vulnerable minors, she leaves him.
Finally, after an emotionally tumultuous existence that included hospitalization due to a psychotic episode, she found a man to lean on. Her relationship with Gabriel negatively impacted her life. When she had begun to heal from her traumas, she found the strength to put into writing many of the unanswered questions that had haunted her. How was it possible that no one realized that sexual relations between a 14-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man suffer from such a psychological and emotional imbalance that they cannot necessarily be healthy? How was it possible that in the 80s and 90s, not only ephebophilic relationships, but pedophilic ones, enjoyed such social and media acceptance? How deeply had the pedophile movement penetrated the structures of political power that even the President of the Republic... Francois Mitterand had to interview the Canadian journalist Denise Bombardier to "distance themselves" from the pedophile Gabriel Matzneff?
The publication of Vanessa Springora's book has awakened the bad conscience and guilt of the French, with numerous radio and television interviews appearing as a form of collective reparation for a history fundamentally linked to their left-wing intellectuals.
Reading it helps us to penetrate the mind of a teenager who, like all teenagers, is rebellious, prone to mythomania, and breaks with what they learned during childhood; they want to be themselves, stubbornly pursuing autonomy, which makes them especially vulnerable. “A vulnerable adolescent will always seek love before sexual satisfaction. By exchanging tokens of affection (or the money his family lacks) that he longs for, he will accept being an object of pleasure, thus relinquishing for a long time his role as subject, actor, and manager of his sexuality.” Vanessa Springora
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