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David L. "Dave" Riegel (1931 - ) had already retired twice when he was drawn into the public debate on these issues by a 1999 invitation from a McGraw Hill editor to submit a essay for Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality on the infamous congressional condemnation of the 1998 Rind et al paper "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples."
Since that time he has been studying and investigating these phenomena, and has pioneered in the use of the Internet in behavioral science research of boyhood sexuality, taking the time to earn an additional degree in psychology in the process. His research and perspectives have been reported in various scientific journals, and three popular press paperbacks have been published prior to this one. His efforts have not gone completely unnoticed. He has been attacked in the American Psychological Association's journal Psychological Bulletin, various newspapers including the UK based Sun and the on line WorldNet Daily, by Bill O'Reilly of Fox TV news, by the late Mike Echols, who showed up on his doorstep a few years back, screaming insults and threats, and most recently by the vigilante group "Perverted Justice." But he also has been recognized by Google and other Internet search engines with multiple links to his works. |