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Tokyo Rose's European counterpart, "Axis Sally" worked to weaken the morale of U.S. troops with her broadcasts on Radio Berlin. After the war, she was convicted of treason, served 12 years in jail, was paroled and became a music teacher in Ohio...
...them, plus the District of Columbia, a therapist who merely suspects that a patient has molested a child is required to contact the police and therapists often advise the patient to consult an attorney before starting treatment. "What lawyer is going to advise a client to incriminate himself?" asks Berlin. "We need to find a way to help people, but we don't accomplish that by deterring them from identifying themselves in the first place...
...potential pedophile in this climate is going to raise his hand and feel comfortable that he's going to be helped rather than injured," says Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, in Baltimore...
...real shame is that treatment does work. The overwhelming majority of research concludes that pedophilia is an innate - thus unchosen - condition, one that produces more suffering than pleasure, but that can be controlled. Berlin and others working with pedophiles use a combination of talk therapy, abstinence training based on the Alcohol Anonymous model and, when necessary, libido-suppressing drugs. In one study of 400 of Berlin's patients, less than 3% who fully cooperated with treatment relapsed after five years. Other studies show that when pedophiles are not treated, nearly 18% of them offend again within three to five years...
...students was so that they could aid their spiritual development. When the University lost faith in any agreed principles, it could not justify compelling students to adhere to any fixed ethics. In the name of science, any promulgation of a certain ethic labored under the stigma of what Isaiah Berlin called “the Cartesian condemnation,” attempting to justify all its findings scientifically and severely unable...