Translators' Foreword
The author of this volume lives and teaches in Spain, and he wrote the original in Spanish for readers in Spain. So there are places where he refers to "our country," which must be understood as referring to Spain.This author is not nearly so constricted as he would be in repressive cultures such as the US or UK. He therefore lays out his brilliant deconstruction and demolition of the pseudoscience of victimology and its various derivatives, especially child sexual abuse hysteria, in a thorough, meticulous, and incisive manner. He can – and does – state truths that would no doubt cost him his academic position and social standing in the aforementioned repressive countries.
The team that translated and did preliminary editing of this volume, as well as various others who have seen the text presented on this site, feel that this book is every bit as important as past works of such giants as Brongersma, Bernard, and Sandfort. It will, when further revised to bring it up to date and to correct and polish the text, be submitted to major publishers in order to try to make it available to the non-electronic world.