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Book Review: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. By Jeffrey S. Victor. Open Court Press, Chicago, 1993, 408 pp., $38.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback)

Book Review: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. By Jeffrey S. Victor. Open... P1: FNN/FGL P2: FLF Archives of Sexual Behavior [asb] PL112-57–61 July 19, 2000 10:55 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2000 BOOK REVIEWS Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting. By James R. Kincaid. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1998, 352 pp., $24.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Donald J. West, M.D. This substantial work, with 500 annotations and references and authored by a professor of English, is indisputably academic, but its literary style is not that of traditional sexologic writings, with operationally defined hypotheses confirmed by experimental or survey evidence. Instead, one is presented with intriguing apho- risms, metaphoric argumentation, and challenging assertions that cast doubt on common assumptions, but fall short of simple, scientifically testable propositions. Kincaid is convinced that modern American (and for that matter, all Western) society has gone over the top in its concern about child sexual abuse, its exaggerated estimates of prevalence, and its demonization of the multitude of monsters believed to threaten the sexual innocence of children. He bemoans the contrast between this preoccupation and society’s avoidance of the larger problems of child hunger, child neglect, child poverty, child labor, child suicide, and children http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer Journals

Book Review: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. By Jeffrey S. Victor. Open Court Press, Chicago, 1993, 408 pp., $38.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback)

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Archives of Sexual Behavior , Volume 29 (5) – Oct 3, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2000 by Plenum Publishing Corporation
Subject
Psychology; Sexual Behavior; Public Health; Social Sciences, general
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0004-0002
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1573-2800
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10.1023/A:1001904105851
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P1: FNN/FGL P2: FLF Archives of Sexual Behavior [asb] PL112-57–61 July 19, 2000 10:55 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2000 BOOK REVIEWS Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting. By James R. Kincaid. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1998, 352 pp., $24.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Donald J. West, M.D. This substantial work, with 500 annotations and references and authored by a professor of English, is indisputably academic, but its literary style is not that of traditional sexologic writings, with operationally defined hypotheses confirmed by experimental or survey evidence. Instead, one is presented with intriguing apho- risms, metaphoric argumentation, and challenging assertions that cast doubt on common assumptions, but fall short of simple, scientifically testable propositions. Kincaid is convinced that modern American (and for that matter, all Western) society has gone over the top in its concern about child sexual abuse, its exaggerated estimates of prevalence, and its demonization of the multitude of monsters believed to threaten the sexual innocence of children. He bemoans the contrast between this preoccupation and society’s avoidance of the larger problems of child hunger, child neglect, child poverty, child labor, child suicide, and children

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