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    TED Talk Organization Under Fire for Bizarre ‘Pedophilia’ Lecture

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    TEDx 22 Jun 2018437 A recent TEDx Talk at the University of Würzburg has come under fire for its unusual stance on pedophilia.

    On May 5, medical student Mirjam Heine spoke at an independently organized TEDx Talk event at the University of Würzburg in Germany. In a description of the event, the TED Talk website explained that Heine’s would focus on her belief that pedophilia is a natural, unchangeable sexual orientation.
    Ms. Heine “believes that no one is responsible for their sexual orientation, for their feelings, but that everyone is responsible for acting upon this sexual orientation,” the website reads. “She also inquires how all of us can gain if we distinguish clearly between our feelings and our actions. Since pedophiles can’t change their sexual desires, they must learn to control them to not act upon them.”
    “Let me be clear here, abusing children is wrong without any doubt. But a pedophile who does not abuse children has not done anything wrong,” Heine said in her lecture.
    Heine’s lecture suffers from her own confusion on the topic. “Scientific studies indicate that one of the strongest indicators of child sex abuse committed pedophiles is social isolation. People who can’t tell anyone that they are pedophiles can’t get any help,” she states. “For example, they can’t tell their friends that they can’t go the beach because children will be there as well.”
    The TED Talk organization immediately took down the video in response to a massive online backlash against the talk.
    If we embrace the notion that pedophilia is a fixed and unchangeable sexual orientation, how does that explain why a pedophile couldn’t be around children on the beach? Straight and gay people are often around people they find attractive. Heine seems to suggest that pedophilia, to her, is not just a sexual orientation. It’s a mindset that involves the inability to resist one’s own sexual urges, even at the expense of a child’s basic right to not be violated.
    In a statement, the organization suggested that they weren’t aware of Heine’s lecture prior to the independently organized event. The TED Talk organization claims they are working to take down any “illegal” copies of the talk that have been posted online.
    An independently organized TEDx event recently posted, and subsequently removed, a talk from the TEDx YouTube channel that the event organizer titled: “Why our perception of pedophilia has to change.”
    In the TEDx talk, a speaker described pedophilia as a condition some people are born with, and suggested that if we recognize it as such, we can do more to prevent those people from acting on their instincts.
    TEDx events are organized independently from the main annual TED conference, with some 3,500 events held every year in more than 100 countries. Our nonprofit TED organization does not control TEDx events’ content.
    This talk and its removal was recently brought to our attention. After reviewing the talk, we believe it cites research in ways that are open to serious misinterpretation. This led some viewers to interpret the talk as an argument in favor of an illegal and harmful practice.
    Furthermore, after contacting the organizer to understand why it had been taken down, we learned that the speaker herself requested it be removed from the internet because she had serious concerns about her own safety in its wake.
    Our policy is and always has been to remove speakers’ talks when they request we do so. That is why we support this TEDx organizer’s decision to respect this speaker’s wishes and keep the talk offline.
    We will continue to take down any illegal copies of the talk posted on the Internet.
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    Planned Parenthood Sues to Keep Access to Young Children in Sex Ed

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    AP/Marco Ugarte 23 Jun 2018565 Planned Parenthood affiliates from around the country are suing the Trump administration for its efforts to promote sex education programs in public schools that teach young people to make healthy lifestyle decisions rather than topics such as masturbation, anal sex, LGBT sex, the morning-after pill, and abortion.

    The lawsuits were filed in federal courts by Planned Parenthood affiliates in New York City, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, and Washington.
    Planned Parenthood claims the Trump administration wants to force an “abstinence-only agenda” on young people.
    “Young people have the right to the information and skills they need to protect their health,” Dawn Laguens, vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said, according to the Associated Press. “The Trump-Pence administration is trying to impose their abstinence-only agenda on young people across the country.”
    The Trump administration cut millions of dollars in grants from Obama-era Teen Pregnancy Programs (TPP) to Planned Parenthood after data revealed the programs were not effective.
    The Obama administration had eliminated all funding for sex education programs that stress abstinence, favoring, instead, comprehensive sex education (CSE) programs, promoted by Planned Parenthood and LGBT rights groups, that assume most adolescents are sexually active and that also normalize all teen sexual behavior:
    In an interview with Breitbart News in 2017, a top Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official said 37 evaluations of TPP programs were performed for grant applications to fund the programs.
    “Overall, of the 37 funded and evaluated projects, 73% either had no impact or had a negative impact on teen behavior, with some teens more likely to begin having sex, to engage in unprotected sex, or to become pregnant,” the official stated. “Very few positive results were sustained over time.”
    Yet – despite the negative results – HHS observed the same curricula “remained on the TPP approved curricula list for the second round of replication grants, begun in 2015.”
    “Given the strong evidence of negative impact or no impact for these programs, continuing the TPP Program in its current state is not a reasonable option,” the Trump HHS Department concluded. “The evidence stands in stark contrast to the promised results, jeopardizing the youth who were served, while also proving to be a poor use of more than $800 million in taxpayer dollars.”
    HHS also noted CDC’s report that, while teen sex and pregnancy rates are at record lows, sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases are at record highs. Consequently, the agency says sex education “should be centered on science in the promotion of optimal health outcomes.”
    The sex ed programs provided by Planned Parenthood have drawn the ire of parents around the country and abroad. In April, parents in cities across the U.S. and in Canada, Australia, and the U.K. participated in a “Sex Ed Sit-Out” to protest what they say is “pornographic, gender-bending” sex ed curricula taught by the taxpayer-funded abortion chain.
    Earlier in June, Christian evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham also condemned the graphic sex ed curricula pushed in public schools and urged parents to take action against those with an “agenda to lure” children “into promiscuity.”

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    Kidnapped model hits back at abduction doubters, says she was willing to have sex with kidnapper to stay alive

    By Amy Jones | The Sun







    Model Chloe Ayling travelled to Milan for what “she believed was a photoshoot before the ordeal.” (Instagram)



    She was drugged, kidnapped, told she would be sold as a sex slave and threatened with death.





    Then, when she finally made it to safety, many cast doubt on her shocking story.

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    Now at last Chloe Ayling has the vindication she deserves, with the conviction of her abductor Lukasz Herba and a court’s public acknowledgement that she was telling the truth.


    Speaking for the first time since Herba, 30, was jailed in Italy for 16 years for the kidnap, Chloe, 21, from Coulsdon, South London, told The Sun of her joy that he has been put behind bars — and that she is no longer considered a liar.

    British model Chloe Ayling speaks out for the first time about her kidnapping ordeal as her abductor Lukasz Herba is convicted. (Instagram)


    She said: “It’s a huge relief because I feel like my life has been on hold.
    “It was six days of hell — and then I had to deal with all the disbelief once I got home. I feel happy now that everyone knows I was telling the truth.”


    Chloe also revealed how in a bid to stay alive, she told herself she had to be willing to sleep with her kidnapper to keep him on her side.
    The nightmare began in July last year, when the glamour model travelled to Milan for what she believed was a photoshoot.
    Instead, at the photo studio she was injected with horse tranquillizer ketamine by a man in a ski mask, stuffed into a suitcase and smuggled to a remote Italian farmhouse.
    Kidnapper Herba later claimed Chloe was an accomplice to the abduction, and had gone along with it to boost her profile.
    But Chloe hit back: “The media were quoting this crazy guy in the headlines and people were reading it as the truth. They had no idea how crazy this guy is.”

    Chloe Ayling told herself she had to be willing to sleep with her kidnapper to keep him on her side. (Facebook)


    Recalling the moment she was snatched, she said: “Suddenly this man has his hand on my mouth — covering my nose.
    “And then another man ran in front of me with a mask on. I saw he had a syringe.
    “When I woke up I was so drugged. Slowly as I regained consciousness, I realized I was in the back of a car.
    “I had no idea why they were taking me. Everything went through my head — are they going to rape me? Are they going to kill me?”
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    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    More Than 2300 Alleged Pedophiles Arrested Nationwide; MSM (And Peter Fonda) Silent
    Last week, the Department of Justice released a statement detailing the arrests of an thousands of pedophiles in a nationwide sweep that lasted for three months.
    “The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces,” the release says. “The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.”
    Despite the massively successful operation, press coverage has been noticeably thin. A search for the generic term “pedophile” on the websites for CNN, NBC, and CBS turns up a grand total of zero results on the story, despite the fact that it has been nearly a week since DOJ’s announcement.
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    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    >KOREATOWN (CBSLA) — A nearly 30-year veteran of the county agency charged with keeping children safe has been arrested, accused of possessing images of children being sexually abused.

    >Carlos Castillo, 54, of Hollywood was out on bail Wednesday after having been charged of having child pornography. The Los Angeles County Dept. of Children and Family Services confirmed his current position is assistant regional administrator.

    >A 2016 DCFS newsletter describes Castillo as an “adoption manager.”

    >The LAPD’s investigation into Castillo reportedly began after a tip was received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

    >Police served a search warrant at Castillo’s Hollywood home Tuesday. CBS2 News tried to talk to someone at the residence but received no answer.

    >Several nearby residents told CBS2 Castillo is a nice man who helps out in the building’s garden and is part of the community. They were shocked by the news.

    >“Very nice, very friendly is my view of him,” said neighbor Frederic Fournier. “I’m shocked.”

    >DCFS issued the following statement on the arrest: “Our mission at the Department of Children and Family Services is to keep kids safe. We recently learned of the arrest of one of our employees for alleged disturbing activity that goes against our mission. We stand ready to assist our partners in law enforcement in their investigation.”

    >Castillo’s case is being handled by the LAPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force.
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    Director Defends Netflix Film from Child Pornography Accusations

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    Aleph Media/Netflix/Screenshot 1 Jul 2018366 Argentinian movie director Diego Kaplan is defending his erotic thriller, Desire, after the film was accused of containing child pornography.

    In a scene of the movie, a pre-teenaged girl is shown accidentally discovering how to masturbate and achieve orgasm while watching a cowboy movie and pretending to ride an oversized pillow as if it were a horse.
    But, the director says that the child actors in his film were filmed under close supervision by parents, and neither of them were told exactly what they were acting out, Variety reported.
    Recently the movie was questioned as child pornography and said to be exploitative of the child actresses. Users on social media began circulating still images and video from the scenes in question last week, spurring a Change.org petition demanding that Netflix remove the film that has already garnered 1,112 signatures.
    “The camera even takes this scene into a close-up of the child’s face in slow motion, moving up and down and panting like a porn star. The scene is graphic and includes an orgasm,” PJ Media’s Megan Fox said describing the scene on June 27.
    But Diego Kaplan is defending the film as fantasy, not reality.
    Despair is a film. When we see a shark eating a woman on film, no one thinks the woman really died or that the shark was real,” he said in a statement released on June 29. “We work in a world of fiction; and, for me, before being a director comes being a father.”
    Kaplan went on to insist that the girls in his film were not exploited:
    Of course, this scene was filmed using a trick, which was that the girls were copying a cowboy scene from a film by John Ford. The girls never understood what they were doing, they were just copying what they were seeing on the screen. No adult interacted with the girls, other than the child acting coach. Everything was done under the careful surveillance of the girls’ mothers. Because I knew this scene might cause some controversy at some point, there is “Making Of” footage of the filming of the entire scene.
    Everything works inside the spectators’ heads, and how you think this scene was filmed will depend on your level of depravity.
    The film, first released in Argentina as Desearas: Al Hombre De Tu Hermana, began streaming on Netflix last December.
    Twitter users, however, have attacked the film in recent days as nothing less than child porn:
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    UCLA professor dies in 'mummification' ritual at Hollywood executive's home



    By Christopher Carbone | Fox News




    Doran George, 48, died inside the home of a Hollywood executive in November 2017. (UCLA)



    A California university professor died during a bondage session at the home of a Hollywood executive that went horribly wrong.

    Doran George, 48, was found dead inside the home of Skip Chasey, an executive for Hollywood’s William Morris Endeavor agency and known in the BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance and Submission) community as “Master Skip,” on Nov. 19, 2017.
    George, who was born Duncan Gilbert and did not use gendered pronouns, had been wrapped “head to toe in plastic wrap and gaffer’s tape, with small breathing holes at the nose and mouth,” according to an autopsy report obtained late last week by Variety.
    “The decedent’s partner observed that the decedent was not reacting properly,” the report states. “The partner checked the decedent closer and realized that the decedent was not breathing. The partner called 911 and began cutting off the plastic and tape.”
    George, who had a 16-year relationship with a man named Barry Shils that allowed for sexual activity outside their partnership, had become a regular playmate of Chasey's over the course of seven months preceeding his death.
    When parademics arrived, they were unable to revive George.
    The coroner’s office was unable to determine the cause of death and Chasey has not been charged with any wrongdoing, reports Variety.
    Chasey’s lawyer, John Duran, told Variety that the two were participating in consensual activity and noted that the coroner did not conclude that the wrapping was the cause of George’s death.



    UCLA professor Doran George died inside the home of a leading Hollywood agent in November 2017. (Reuters)


    “It’s been very sad and traumatic for Skip,” Duran said. “It’s someone he had an ongoing relationship with. Nobody expected it to end this way.”
    According to a remembrance note published by UCLA, George had a successful career as a child in musical comedy in the United Kingdom before joining the Culture and Performance Ph.D. program at the university’s Department of World Arts and Cultures in 2008. They developed expertise in areas of LGBTQ and Disability Studies, earned their doctorate in 2014, taught several classes and were “highly respected, revered and adored" by peers and students alike.
    "Those of you who had the honor of taking this course or being in one of Doran’s discussion sections know that their heart was as big as their laugh, and that their dedication to social justice was informed by their own queer immigrant experience," said Alicia Gaspar de Alba, a UCLA professor, in a separate note to colleagues.
    The room in which George was found — replete with padded floor tiles, a metal cage and a padded examination table — was described as being “outfitted as a BDSM style dungeon” in the autopsy report.
    The incident received renewed attention when it was discussed on a podcast called The Grey Zone.
    For its part, the William Morris Endeavor agency has no plans to take action against Chasey.
    “While we were unaware of the circumstances surrounding this personal matter until now, we understand that the police file is closed and no charges were brought. If other facts develop, we will re-evaluate the situation and determine any appropriate action to take,” the agency said in a statement to Variety.
    Their partner has been left with a sense of guilt over what took place.
    "In my grief, I’m hitting myself — like it was like watching my lover shoot heroin and not saying anything," Shils told The Hollywood Reporter. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think he was going to end up dead."
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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