The current lack of classification for SSA does not align with natural law. From a “practical point of view” does this sit well with you?
‘Natural Law’, according, as I understand it, to the Catholic Church, is based upon logical reasoning, working from universally accepted fundaments.
The problem comes, when Rome sees something fundamental, which is not.
Now I do not deny the existance of ‘pure’ perversion in some cases of homosexuality, but there are a definite number of cases, where this is due to SSA, resulting from improper gender determination.
Rome sticks fast to the premise that G_D created Man, male and female
ONLY.
Science tells us that gender, though strongly bi-modal, is actually diffuse, and there is considerable modal overlap. This means that someone who is genetically male, may have a female body, or a female psyche in a male body.
This could leave the female psyche in the male body, attracted to males. This is a case of SSA according to the precepts of Rome.
When we argue that all are the creation of G_D, we get agreement, but the assertion that the deviant gender is an error permitted by G_D.
What we have though is not a simple black and white case of true or false, but a degree of deviation from a norm.
Now if G_D designed a system, where a large deviation from ‘norm’ was permitted, then, indeed, these deviants lie within the design limits set down by G_D. Thus they are compliant with G_D’s design.
Therefore G_D created Man, and indeed all creation, male, female, intersex, and neuter.
If you want to call this permissive tollerance, or free-will, well, that indeed may be the case, but this fuzzyness is part of the design, part of creation, and thus, part of Man.
This remains a point of contention amongst mental health professionals, as there are many pedophiliacs who satisfy your criteria of “not classed as a disorder”.
I agree that from the above, that argument could be made. So a different criterion must be here consulted. That is the criterion of harm.
There can be no doubt, that in some cases of paedophilia, that harm is done to the psyche of the child, if not to the mind or body. Other forms of paedophilia may indeed be benign. The term means ‘love of children’. This could just as easily be innocent love as it could be perverted ‘love’.
Did not Jesus say:‘Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.’?
Narth attempts to promote the possibility of psyche gender re-allignment.
What real evidence that exists suggests is that once gender is alligned, whether correctly, or otherwise, that allignment is to all intents and purposes, fixed.
Like geese, who see the first moving thing they espy on hatching, as mother, so undergo in some cases, an incorrect initializatiion of their ‘operating system’. The memory used here seems to be Write Once Read Manytimes, or WORM memory, like a CDROM. Thus once the OS is initialized, that is the status quo, fixed.
What we do know is that if we re-initialize a hard disk, we lose everything that was ever stored on it.
Since so much of the psyche is built upon its initialization, then similarly, initializing, or the attempt thereto, is extremely dangerous to the psyche.
