Mermaids trustee Jacob Breslow "challenged assumptions about minors and sexuality which currently underlie policymaking and the DSM" at B4U-ACT's 2011 Scientific Symposium.
B4U-Act is organization for "individuals (adults and adolescents) who are sexually attracted to children"
Then PhD student, Jacob Breslow (now Mermaids trustee) presentation was titled "Sexual Alignment: Critiquing Sexual Orientation, The Pedophile, and the DSM V". web.archive.org/web/2022012904…
Jacob Breslow, trustee of Mermaids: "Many tend to begin with the linkage of pedophilic desire to harmful and abusive relationships and acts, and end up proliferating, rather than questioning, normative gendered and sexual intelligibility" b4uact.org/wp-content/upl…
Jacob Breslow's presentation to the MAP conference in 2011 attracted adverse comment at the time:
This is the full abstract of Jacob Breslow's (new trustee of Mermaids) 2011 presentation:
Jacob Breslow's paper compared "cumming on a shoe" to "cumming on or possibly even with a child"
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Jacob Breslow (current trustee of Mermaids) gave a presentation in 2011 which (according to an unsympathetic attendee) compared having sex with a child to having sex with a shoe
"So just as we must ask the shoe if it wants to be worn, we must enter a place epistemically in which we can ask the child if it wants to have sex. Again, the way in which we ask must not require an answer, or again at least not one which is conventionally intelligible or audible
This quote from Jacob Breslow (current Mermaid trustee) comes from Reisman & Strickland, 'B4U-ACT’S 2011 Symposium on Pedophilia, Minor-Attracted Persons & the DSM', Ave Maria International Law Journal, v1, pp301-2