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It’s fair to say the Tromovitch view does not represent majority academic opinion.
It’s likely, too, that some of the academic protests against the “stigmatisation” of
paedophiles are as much a backlash against the harshness of sex offender laws as
anything else. Finally, of course, academic inquiry is supposed to question
conventional wisdom and to deal rigorously with the evidence, whether or not the
conclusions it leads you to are popular.
Even so, there really is now no shortage of evidence about the harm done by child
abuse. In the latest frenzy about the crimes of the past, it’s worth watching whether
we could, in the future, go back to the intellectual climate which allowed them.

“Children should not have to suffer the rest of their lives, for the poor choices of
adults around them” Connie Lee