"An article by Christian psychologist James Dobson caught the attention of millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He sent it to someone seeking advice about her relationship with her father.

'Ask yourself why you are so mad at him,' Epstein texted in 2019, according to a document the U.S. Department of Justice released on Jan. 30."

~ Daniel Silliman

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https://julieroys.com/jeffrey-epstein-recommended-reading-james-dobson/

Jeffrey Epstein recommended reading James Dobson

An article by Christian psychologist James Dobson caught the attention of millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Roys Report

"He included a link to an online column where the founder of Focus on the Family told someone to adjust expectations for a father who had caused his family great pain.

Epstein followed up a few minutes later with a text chiding the woman he was talking to for not being grateful enough to offer him sexual favors.

'I suggest you learn to give,' he wrote late at night on May 20."

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“'You say thx for advice but could have said … is there something i can do to express my appreciation?'

Epstein was arrested a few months after sending that text and charged with sex trafficking girls as young as 14. ...

D. L. Mayfield, a deconstructed evangelical author, argues Dobson and Focus on the Family created parenting materials that appealed to pedophiles."

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“'And guess what?' Mayfield wrote on social media on Sunday night. 'Jeffrey Epstein apparently thought so too.'”

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"Purity culture is pedophile culture. ...

We know purity culture is bad and there's lots of discussion about all the ways it impacts people's sexuality and self-esteem and all that. And I'm saying, and here's another part."

~ D.L. Mayfield

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https://strongwilled.substack.com/p/podcast-purity-culture-is-pedophile

PODCAST: Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture

A summary of our series about the themes in purity culture that promote childhood sexual abuse, as well as the ways Dobson failed to protect kids

STRONGWILLED

"I think it's creating safe places for pedophiles to operate and get away with sexually abusing children and normalizing grooming and the sexualization of children into these sort of like patriarchal fetish content."

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