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Dear Dr.P, What is this thing with Michael Jackson and his supposed pedophilic
activities with boys at his “Neverland” ranch. I say where there is smoke there is fire. Is
he a dangerous pedophilic predator or what?
Pedophilia is defined as erotosexual attraction to or love of children, specifically those
between 5-years of age and the onset of puberty around 12 or so. Ephebophilia, or teen
love, is the attraction to and love of youth that are at puberty and up to about age 18
years. An attraction to and love of infants, up to about 4 years of age, is called
nepiophilia. All are types of chronophilia in which the causal factor of erotosexual
attraction and love in the chronophile is a specific age range for the subject of attraction.
There is also gerontophilia or the attraction to aged individuals, and probably 20, 30, and
40-ophilias. These last usually present no problem for our criminal justice system.
Chronophilias, as paraphilias, occur in appositional pairs or polar opposites, with the
chronophilie often desiring to only be the age that is so attractive. Jerry Springer often
features on his TV show adult men who manifest auto-nepiophilia (self-infantilism).
They wear baby caps and clothes, curl up in large cribs, want to nurse on bottles or a
breast and have their wet diapers changed by a caretaker. We may find this ridiculous,
but for the auto-nepiophile it is a tremendous turn-on.
In many cases the chronophilias may occur in individuals who for unknown reasons
never act out their paraphilias in overtly erotosexual activities. They are sexually
inhibited, repressed or self-controlled. For them there is a dichotomy between things of
the spirit and of the body. The attraction is there but it has become sublimated from the
things of the flesh and has moved toward a purity of the spirit. For these people, it is not
acceptable to be sexual, but wonderful to love and be in love.
Michael shares his behavioral characteristics with other luminaries in history, namely
Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, R.S. Baden-Powell, Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin. All
maintained curious affiliations with young people, much as does Jacko.
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a proper Oxford clergyman, mathematics
professor and an “artful” photographer of little 6, 11, and 13-year-old nude girls (often
with their mothers giving permission or being present at the shoots). While 31 years old,
he was in love with 11-year-old Alice P. Liddell, the girl for whom he wrote the tale of
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” He thought, unsuccessfully, that the book would
placate Alice’s mother who began to suspect his motives. The photographs still exist and
the sultry poses of Alice are not what you would expect in an innocent Victorian girl. We
may not know his fantasy life, but Carroll apparently never crossed the line into paired
erotosexual activity.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, playwright and author of a serialization “Peter-Pan and
Wendy” supposedly wrote these from the stories he told to the five young sons of Sylvia
Llewelyn Davies. His short marriage was never consummated as he suffered from
impotence. There were speculations that he preferred the company of young boys and
was a pedophile, but again there was no evidence of this. What Barrie did in his private
time alone we cannot know. Nevertheless, he was a benevolent champion of children and
donated his copyright and Peter Pan royalties to a children’s hospital in London. Johnny
Depp recently played the role of Barrie in a semi-biographical-fictional account of his life
“Finding Neverland.” Note that “Neverland” is also the name of Michael Jackson’s
home.
Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British soldier and founder of what became the world-
wide Boy Scout movement, was supposedly a repressed homosexual pedophile. He was
devoted to the moral and physical development of newly pubescent boys. At his Scout’s
camp in Epping Forest, he enjoyed watching the boys swim naked thinking it healthy.
He also appreciated photographs of nude boys taken by an old male friend A.H. Tod.
While glorifying the youthful bodies, the line apparently was not crossed and Baden-
Powell remained physically chaste. It is ironic that avowed gays are not now permitted
membership in the Boy Scouts of America.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), the writer of the Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn
boyhood adventures, had a curious habit later in his life of befriending a dozen young
teenage girls in his “Aquarium Club.” He called the girls his “Angelfish” and they were
required to adhere to the rules of membership requiring correspondence and field trips to
concert halls, cruises to Bermuda and to his Redding, CT estate. Once the girls matured,
they “graduated” out of membership. Such activity by an older man today would draw
much suspicion, just as Jacko does with his befriending of youngsters and his
entertainment of them at his fabulous “Neverland.”
Charlie Chaplin, the “Little Tramp” so beloved by classic comedy movie fans was no
doubt a cinematic genius, but this was accompanied by his proclivity of being the lover of
his teenage co-stars—usually just under 18 years of age. His second marriage was to 16-
year-old Lia Grey, whom he had met when she was 12. They had two children. In May
1943, the 54-year old Chaplin was in a paternity suit brought by 23-year-old actress Joan
Berry. Two weeks later, his fourth marriage was to 18-year-old Oona O’Neill. He was
then compelled to leave the United States. This marriage lasted 35 years and produced
eight children.
In every case of these creative individuals, their attraction to and relationships with
youngsters went beyond what we would consider normative. They may, in some cases
have manifested their chronophilias only as privately experienced affective states and not
in overtly erotosexual behaviors. Any evidence of overt harm done to their young friend-
companions (except for Chaplin’s paternity) is not to be found.
Surely Michael Jackson, like Peter Pan, never grew up and may be manifesting auto-
ephebophilism; namely thinking and acting like the teens to whom he is attracted. I
suspect, however, that the attraction, friendships and activities are platonic and asexual
for Michael Jackson. He has stated that the last thing he wants to do is harm his buddies,
and he realizes that being in the public eye and so closely scrutinized by staff and others,
he cannot “cross the line” even if he were so inclined.
Innocent until proven guilty,
Dr. P