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Subject: forwarded message
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 04:10:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 04:10:06 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jan-84 06:42:39 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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An objective response to NAMBLA:

  A child can be severely crippled emotionally by a traumatic sexual
  experience with a trusted adult.  The person may be traumatized at the
  time, or later when they grow up and realize the implications of what
  has happened.

  Children need the love of an adult very much.  If that adult
  introduces sex into the relationship, the child may go along.  The
  child may even enjoy it, but it is not because the child wants the sex
  in the same way as an adult.  Studies of incest victims follow that
  pattern.  When the child grows up, they are terribly hurt by the
  experience!

  This is a abuse of the bond between a developing child and an adult.

A very subjective response to NAMBLA:

  It's people like this who give queers a bad name!

						"Lance"