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2. Mixture
‘pedophilia’ and all questions around it, are typical western phenomena.”
The same holds for phenomena like prostitution. Many religions and cultures have templeprostitution
as well as civil prostitution. In countries like Morocco and India, boys’ prostitution
is quite normal. In the Thai culture, man-boy relationships have a positive value. These
relationships are not viewed as ‘apart’. But these cultures are like islands, closed to foreigners.
People want to have their own room and do not want people who impose themselves on those
communities.
A similar question is why there are so few women in the child love movement. There are some,
but a few only. For women, it is accepted worldwide if they intimately go about with children,
so there is less of a problem. Also, women are viewed as less longing for sexual pleasures.
“Women don’t do things like that”, as Queen Victoria said, signing the bill against male
homosexuality.
The modern counter variants are the western feminists who try to put feminism on the agenda
of the eastern women. Eastern people have a completely other view on males and females and
masculinity and femininity, so feminists are quite unwelcome there. Sexism, as well as racism,
is a typical western phenomenon.
d. A paradigm shift, and so, a new model
During modernism, the fundamental incentive of the groups was emancipation. The underlying
theme of emancipation is: power contra powerlessness. Then, discussion groups were formed
in which people explored their feelings and opinions in meetings. The underlying theme was
here: authenticity, and truth versus untruthfulness.
Nowadays, we live in post-modernism, and the former themes are no longer discussed. The
new underlying theme is living together in spite of differences between people. An example is
the ability of fundamental Christians to live together with modern Christians and many
different-minded people. After all, religion has changed from a more or less uniform way of
living into a wide variety of forms and beliefs.
The great theme is now living together, which implies themes like human rights, righteousness,
and society. This is far more than emancipation and meeting. There has been a paradigm shift.
The new paradigm uses a new language. The old language of the emancipation model no
longer appeals to people.
For example, in the emancipation model the priority is to clarify one’s own thinking, or the
opinions of one’s minority group. In the living together model, the priority is to clarify and
understand the opinions of others, including your opponents. This kind of thinking appeals to
people after that paradigm shift – no longer the notion of emancipation, important as it has
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