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|ongoing=no
|year=1999
|region=North America
|artist=Psychological Bulletin
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Sexual/Gender Orientation
|confronting_bodies=Congress
|medium=Literature
|date_of_action=July 1999
|location=Washington D.C.
|description_of_content=This scientific article, published in an American Psychological Association publication analyzes a number of other studies examining how sexual encounters in childhood affected college students, finding that on average, students who had experienced childhood sexual abuse were only slightly less well-adjusted.
|description_of_incident=After Dr. Laura and others began a crusade against the article, which they alleged "normalized pedophilia" among other things, congress voted 355-0 to condemn the article. Congress sought to suppress the study and denounced "all suggestions in the article . . . that indicate that sexual relationships between adults and 'willing' children are less harmful than believed and might be positive for 'willing' children.''
|description_of_result=The APA defended the article and its research, leaders in congress continued its denunciations.
|source=http://reason.com/archives/1999/08/07/washingtons-other-sex-scandal
}}