Ray Blanchard

Also, what's with the Arabic numeral? It should've been DSM-V, right??

I’m not sure about the numbering. It was still being called DSM-V when I joined the work group.

The idea was it would be updated quite regularly. Like iOS versions. DSM 5, DSM 5.1, 5.2 etc. to be a “loving” document until a major revision warrants DSM 6

I think the transgals will dismiss it anyway as just another ‘tool of the Patriarchy’ (should it be capitalised?). #thePatriarchy #peaktrans

@kfranklinphd @JamesCantorPhD @stephens_skye @IanVMcPhail @MCSeto this relates significantly to questions & comments I had concerning the problem of overdiagnoses of paraphilias, esp. chronophilias, in response to shifting & largely arbitrary social mores, which the DSM has shown

evidence of doing & has been under publicized ( & the publicity is good, I think, since its absence would replace transparency with elitist, clandestine obscuring ) pressure, from within & from without, to increasingly engage in. In the area of chronophilias, pushes to exacerbate

the already problematically extant use of highly arbitrary &/or imprecise measures to diagnose serious, stigmatizing, freedom-imperiling disorders, pose serious dangers. My personal erotic preference is Tanner 5 females, a category my Wife fits beautifully into. Still, the

histrionic & fallacy-laden hysteria regarding some of the more normal chronophilia ( or absence thereof ), & the overwhelming, abhorrent public tendency to conflate them ( so-called ephebophilia, for instance & in especial ) with the far more troubling & truly abnormal pedophilia

is something I see as a very troubling trend of exaggeration, demonizing & conflation ( some of the conflation born of ignorance, but some of it clearly born of deliberate, manipulative dishonesty & obfuscating ). The propaganda-riddled situation is exponentially worsened when

scientists & clinicians, often themselves biased by the social climate of the day, falsely-validate misinformation & inaccuracies by using HIGHLY SPECIOUS criteria bound to result in frequent misdiagnoses, & by affixing damning labels to behaviors they don't factually apply to.

In catering to shifting social pressures & the mores they rise from, especially when those mores are arbitrary, scientists & serious clinical organizations like the APA damage their authority & credibility as sources of truth & fact, in so far objective truths can be discerned.

There is, perhaps, no greater & more glaring evidence of the APA & DSM subtly but surely allowing for the fact-distorting influence of current-culture-status-quo to factor into their assessments & diagnostic criteria, than the language & diagnostic qualifiers re: teen-focused