Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting by Kincaid, James R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Trapped in the Story

Drama at Van Buren High The Story What Sort of Sex Did You Say It Was? Our Little Mountain Hideaway Do You Have a Degree in Psychology? Young Men and Bananas Bleeding the Baby A Foolish Consistency Is a Real Hobgoblin What’s Our Role? When Does It End? Who Wins?

2. Inventing the Child—and Sexuality

The New Child Blessed Innocence Erotic Innocence Freud and the Latent Child The Power of Children The Wild Boy of Aveyron The American Dream Child Independent Children The Child Within

3. Myths of Protection, Acts of Exposure

The Problem The Enemy—Who Is S/He? But When It Does Happen? The Enemy: What Is It? The Enemy: What to Do with It Wait a Minute Myths of Protection Exposing the Children And the Children Who Aren’t So Cute?

4. Home Alone with the Adorable Child

Pure Adoration Sexualizing the Child Imperiled Adorables Leaving the Kids Alone

5. Resenting Children

Spanking Demon Seed Tales of Resentment Who Cares? Loving Them to Death

6. Myths, Legends, Folktales, and Lies

The Multi-Billion-Dollar Kiddie Porn Industry Alien Abductions Satanic Abuse Kidnappings and Abductions Teenage Fornication Monsters of the Media Sleepers

7. The Trials: Believing the Children

Ellie Nesler’s Son McMartin Menendez And That’s Not All We’re Doing It All for You

8. Accusing the Stars: Perversion Among the Prominent

The Distinguished College President Teacher Sex Scandals Be Prepared Children and the Clergy Woody Allen Michael Jackson

9. Recovered Memory

Repression Getting Rid of Freud, Getting Back to Basics Benefits Some Narratives Memory

The Backlash The Backlash in Detail You Scratch My Backlash and I’ll Scratch Yours—The Counter

11. Other Stories, Other Kids

The Happy Child Getting Started on New Stories Bad Habits We Need to Lose New Stories Changing the Human Heart: Humanism Once Again Now That We’ve Got the Stories, What? An Unsafe World

Appendix Notes Index