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	SEXUAL POLITICS
		Levine says her quote was misconstrued and that she does not approve sex between authority figures such as parents, priests and teachers and the minors in their charge.
		Levine believes the Dutch law is a "good model" for the United States because it recognizes children as sexual beings who can determine their future while not ignoring the fact that they are weaker than adults and still need legal protection.
		Levine says she regrets that the controversy over her book has overshadowed one of its other points - that abstinence-only sex education and a reluctance by parents to recognize their children's sexuality leave youths vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease such as AIDS and to sexual abuse.
	www.bettydodson.com /harmfulrevABC.htm (1432 words)

	village voice > news > Underage and Under Siege by Sharon Lerner
		Levine describes the obsession with pedophiles as stemming both from a reluctance to confront incest and the rampant sexualization of children throughout the culture.
		Levine's lack of sensitivity for the real problems—from crushed emotions to pregnancies —wrought by these relationships is partly to blame for the frenzied response to her book.
		Levine does write about young children's sexual pleasure through masturbation and touch, though, defending the exploration of their bodies as natural and—gasp!—good.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0227,lerner,36218,1.html (1098 words)

	Harmful to Children - Judith Levine - Men's News Daily™
		Levine's defense of pedophilia rests largely on her belief that child molestation is not inherently violent, which is what we used to hear about rape.
		Levine is part of a slowly growing movement to legalize sex with and between children, however most folks of every stripe will be revolted - for a while.
		Levine's dream is the logical conclusion, the result of shucking universal truth in favor of individual urges and notions.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/m-n/morrison/2002/morrison040802.htm (637 words)

	Judith Levine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Summer of Love Author Judith Levine discusses her sexual attraction to an older man at the age of 14 and concludes that such a relationship would not be possible if she were a girl in today's paranoid world.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Judith_Levine.html (310 words)

	Lust Busters - The perils of protecting adults from protecting children from sex. By Hanna Rosin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levine is the latest in a string of critics who have debunked the child abuse hysteria of the late '80s and '90s, both from the right and, in Levine's case, the left.
		Levine did groundbreaking work about the new juvenile sex-therapy programs, where children as young as 9 were essentially jailed on very little evidence and made to endlessly document their deviant fantasies.
		Levine is incensed with the FBI and the media for portraying Dylan as "dark and evil" and with Heather's parents for turning him in.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2066381 (2008 words)

	Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self -- book review
		As we follow Levine’s growing fondness for her father and growing commitment to Paul, her partner, the narrative follows the downward trend of her father’s memory and abilities.
		Yet Levine, author of two other nonfiction titles, admits to a slightly different attitude in her Prelude: “For me, the diagnosis is not about endings.
		Levine has done her homework, and it helps her understand and empathize with her father’s decline.
	www.curledup.com /doyourem.htm (908 words)

	Harmful to Minors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex is a book by Judith Levine that was published in 2002 with a foreword by former United States Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.
		Because of its controversial nature and content, it was nearly impossible for Levine to find a publisher—one prospective publisher even called it "radioactive." University of Minnesota Press eventually agreed to publish the book, despite cries of outrage from the right wing of Minnesota's political establishment.
		Conservatives such as Joe Scarborough and Robert Knight inaccurately accused Levine of promoting pedophilia for her suggestion that the US adopt statutory rape laws similar to those in the Netherlands.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Harmful_to_Minors.html (438 words)

	The kids are alright
		JUDITH LEVINE is one of a rare species - she's an independent scholar and journalist who publishes in mainstream venues such as the Village Voice, Nerve.com, and Ms, and who, unlike many in the academy, writes clearly and with great force.
		Levine argues strongly, thoughtfully, and persuasively that children are far more harmed by these misguided attempts at "protection" than they would be by having full access to honest information about sexuality, as well as (in some cases) the ability to discover and explore their own sexual desires and feelings.
		The author of this book, Judith Levine, is Exhibit A. She was molested as a child and now advocates it for other children." By caving in to this right-wing assault on its press, the university is leaving both Levine and Elders flapping in the wind - with predictably chilling effects on writers and publishers everywhere.
	www.fiawol.demon.co.uk /FAC/minors.htm (3110 words)

	PORN & CENSORSHIP
		Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear.
		Levine makes a compelling case that respecting and celebrating such desires and needs is essential to this country's historic project of promoting 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone who lives here--including those under 18.
		Judith Levine is a journalist, essayist, and author who has written about sex, gender, and families for two decades.
	www.bettydodson.com /harmfulrevlevine.htm (805 words)

	MPR Books - "Harmful to to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex" by Judith Levine
		Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives—censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear.
		Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well—that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves.
		Levine is a founder of the National Writers Union and the feminist guerrilla theater group No More Nice Girls and continues to be active in the union, feminism, and the defense of free speech.
	www.mpr.org /books/titles/levine_harmfultominors.shtml (597 words)

	AlterNet: What Judith Levine is Really Saying
		Levine does not place all the blame on the right, acknowledging the role cultural feminists played in imposing a regime of overwhelming sexual protectionism.
		Levine's conclusion that "economic security is necessary for sexual safety" aims at the heart of the religious right's agenda of privatization, parental rights, and consolidation of the authority of the nuclear family over the interests of society and the needs of the younger generation.
		From Levine's point of view, children are not the property of their parents and must be treated as citizens in their own right.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=12960 (2202 words)

	The Risks of 'Protection': Panic Over Youthful Sexuality Endangers Kids
		Levine's book is not dangerous, but there are dangers out there — dangers that ravage at least as many lives as the pedophiles the cultish Concerned Women want everyone to worry about.
		When she appeared on Working Assets Radio last month, Levine was clear: abuse exists, such as when one party does not consent to sex or when an adult in a position of authority uses his or her status to abuse a victim's trust.
		But beyond that, says Levine, we as a society are way too quick to see aggression, molestation and outright deviance in healthy expressions of youthful sexuality — and way too quick to shame, criminalize and patholologize healthy children for making all sorts of sexual explorations that are just part of their natural development.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0606-08.htm (1190 words)

	Response to Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
		In her book, Judith Levine puts forth the argument that “child sexual exploitation” is non-existent, misunderstood and falsely promoted by the religious radicals.
		Judith Levine’s book was heralded by other scholars such as Robie Harris, author of It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health, a textbook for elementary schools promoting homosexuality.
		Levine also challenges statutory rape laws as over-protective and outdated, similar to the homosexual activists that effectively decriminalized sodomy laws across the country.
	www.nationalcoalition.org /culture/articles/levineresponse.html (1031 words)

	Salon.com Life \| What's so bad about good sex?
		Levine's book reached the shelves just as the sexual abuse scandal was enveloping the Catholic Church, a coincidence that spurred the author's detractors to focus on a single chapter in the book that questions the motivations behind "age of consent" laws.
		Levine suggests that the laws -- which define a "child" as a person 18 or younger, depending on the state -- fail to consider the complexities of adolescent sexual relationships.
		Levine takes abstinence-only sex education to task, arguing that it limits crucial discussions of contraception and abortion, while depriving teenagers of information they need to have safe sex.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2002/04/19/levine_talks/index.html (986 words)

	spectator.net - Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors - Liz Highleyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levine proposes that we ask young people about their experiences and believe what they tell us.
		Indeed, Levine’s views on age of consent laws are informed by her own relationship with an older man when she was a teenager, an experience I share.
		As for withholding information about sex, Levine notes that young people in Western European countries where children receive comprehensive sex education — and where sex is treated as a normal, healthy part of life — do not experience more sex-related pathology.
	www.spectator.net /1239/pages/1239_levine.html (1245 words)

	j. - Daughter’s loving memoir probes Alzheimer’s and relationships
		Yet when Levine’s father, Stan, starts showing signs of Alzheimer’s, she is surprised by the fact that she actually misses the “tribal chants” her mother and father had exchanged over the past 50 years.
		As Levine’s father — a psychologist and liberal political activist who was first diagnosed in his early 70s — slowly loses his ability carry on a conversation, she struggles to help him maintain some sense of himself.
		Levine writes “Happy B-Day Lillian” on the card, and he busily scrubs with crayons until all the white is covered.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22719/format/html/displaystory.html (784 words)

	Harmful to Minors excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levine argues—and backs up with extensive research, interviews and thoughtful analysis—that the American pretense that children and teenagers don’t, or shouldn’t, be sexual or have sexual feelings does more harm to kids than good.
		Levine draws upon media analysis, cultural history, social science, queer theory and interviews with parents, children and sex educators to construct genealogical accounts of how this modern crisis is managed and maintained.
		Levine makes a compelling case that respecting and celebrating such desires and needs is essential to this country's historic project of promoting 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone who lives here-including those under 18.
	www.upress.umn.edu /HarmfultoMinorspraise.html (1128 words)

	FORWARD : Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levine argues that children are overprotected about sex; that sex-education initiatives urging children to practice abstinence have failed; that laws aimed at "children molesters" (children who are accused of molesting other children) are shamefully ill-conceived and that consensual sex between teenagers and adults does not constitute abuse.
		Levine cites studies that estimate that the risk of a child being kidnapped, molested and killed are as high as 1 in 364,000 and as low as less than 1 in a million.
		Levine acknowledges that much of the criticism directed at her springs from the desire to protect women and children.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.05.24/women5.html (1352 words)

	Judith Levine Related Supplies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex Judith Levine Foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders Introduction Excerpt on censorship Excerpt on sensual education Q and A with author Praise for the book Book...
		Judith Levine is an author and journalist who over the past 25 years has combined reportage, history and social science, and personal...
		The Brent Morrison Column: Judith Levine in Defense of Child Molesters -...
	www.medical-research-books.com /1mrb/Judith-Levine (312 words)

	Concerned Women for America - Harmful to Minors—Statement by Robert Stacy McCain, The Washington Times
		In Chapter 4, Levine suggests that parents are overreacting if they call the police when their 13-year-old daughter runs away with a mentally unstable 21-year-old man she met on the Internet.
		Twice cited in Levine’s book is Dutch professor Theo Sandfort, a former member of the editorial board of the Dutch pedophile journal PAIDIKA and author of numerous books and articles on the subject of sex between men and boys.
		John Money is described by Levine as “one of the world’s foremost authorities” and a “preeminent expert.” But Money’s original claim to fame was his theory of gender identity, a theory which led Money to commit research fraud in the so-called “John/Joan” case.
	www.cwfa.org /articles/1200/CWA/family/Zap (1376 words)

	Courageous Trust
		Levine argues that the skills children need to grow in a healthy way, such as confidence, integrity, trust, kindness, and compassion, are the same skills they need to become sexually mature.
		Levine is adamant that we need to be fully honest with children about sex and why we enjoy it, to meet them where they are at, and to give them the privacy they need to learn from themselves and other young people.
		Levine, however, provides little commentary on these inequities and seems to simply trust that empowered children will not be sexually harmed-a difficult idea for anyone concerned with children to swallow.
	www.fwhc.org /teens/harmful-review.htm (561 words)

	Bias Revealed Among Ivy League Faculty
		Levine opposes laws banning child pornography and voluntary installation of Internet anti-pornography filters for home computers, because according to Levine, chocolate is more dangerous to children than sex.
		She refers to Adam's murder as a "liaison." According to Levine, when adults rape and murder children it is the fault of the government for making pedophilia illegal.
		Levine refers to depictions of abortion as negative and not positive as, "Right-wing propaganda." She dismisses any claim that women suffer any ill effects from abortion, once again as, "Right-wing propaganda." The morality of abortion is never discussed.
	www.academia.org /campus_reports/2002/may_2002_2.html (1126 words)

	Citizen Magazine - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levine defines the “sexual politics of fear” as any political or cultural force that portrays unfettered teenage sexuality in a negative light.
		Instead, Levine holds up Holland’s laws as “a good model of reasonable legislation.” This “reasonable” legislation lowered the age of consent to 12 but allowed for a child up to 16 to levy a charge of statutory rape if he or she felt coerced into sex.
		Levine’s book is as disturbing for the nonsense she promotes as it is distressing for everything she avoids.
	www.family.org /cforum/citizenmag/departments/a0022462.cfm (1574 words)

	White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Judith Levine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Judith Levine is an associate in the International Arbitration practice group at the New York office of White and Case.
		Levine worked as a law clerk at the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations located in The Hague, The Netherlands.
		Levine was involved in cases concerning border disputes, treaty interpretation, state responsibility, the use of force, consular rights, the genocide convention and universal jurisdiction.
	www.whitecase.com /lawyers/bio.aspx?bioid=9384 (408 words)

	Judith Levine Book
		Levine says she was "misunderstood" after a news article in March quoted her saying a boy's sexual experience with a priest "conceivably" could be positive.
		Levine cites research about "happy consensual sex among kids under 12," and writes: "America's drive to protect kids from sex is protecting them from nothing.
		Levine's book favorably cites the Rind study and, in a telephone interview, she defended the study as "methodologically meticulous." But Baltimore psychologist Joy Silberg, whose clinical practice involves treating child-abuse victims, says the study is "horribly flawed."
	www.inoohr.org /judithlevinebook.htm (1012 words)

	The Brent Morrison Column: Fan Mail - Brent Irks Pedophile. Judith Levine, Harmful to Children: The Perils ...
		Judith Levine, Harmful to Children: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex.
		Your horrendously slanted article about Judith Levine leads me to believe that you are a bad person in general.
		Judith Levine, the subject of the column that inspired this little exchange, might best be described as a pedophile rights advocate.
	www.brentmorrison.com /021014Fan_mail.htm (565 words)

	MRB: Do You Remember Me? : A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self
		Levine however does not accept the "standard rule" apparently in Alzheimer's medical and family circles, that in order to care for a patient, one must come to believe that he or she is no longer a "self".
		Levine's understanding of dementia and her description of the problems of assisted living were illuminating.
		Levine's openness about her family and personal life is remarkable and draws the reader in.
	www.medical-research-books.com /mrb-books-reviewed/074322230X.html (1692 words)

	Biblio: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Levine, Judith: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Journalist Judith Levine offers a controversial examination of the ways that children and teens are "protected" from sex.
		"Levine is too sensitive to the mysteries and complexities of human relations to be characterized as advocating anything so pat as happiness-through-policy in the area of childhood sexuality.
		But if her putting children and sex together in the same sentence can be read by the right as a call to licentiousness, her heavy emphasis on the pleasure-enhancing possibilities of sex education may encourage readers on the left that kids can be protected from bad sex, mediocre sex, regret, risk, danger, pain.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/23600769.html (398 words)

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