Paul and Shirley Eberle

Paul and Shirley Eberle are US American authors. Paul Eberle is a former writer for the Los Angeles Free Press. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=About Paul Eberle |url=http://www.moonmac.com/About_Paul.html |quote=Paul Eberle is a published author. At the time Thralawattle was created, Paul, his wife Shirley, and I were working for the Los Angeles Free Press during those interesting years 1966-1970. |publisher=Moon Mac |date= |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

Publications

In the 1970s, the Eberles published a pornography publication called "Finger", and in the 1980s, they edited the soft-core pornography magazine "L.A. Star". [cite news |first=Maria |last=Laurina |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Paul and Shirley Eberle: A Strange Pair of Experts |url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Eberle.html |quote=Paul and Shirley Eberle wrote The Politics of Child Abuse, a book that accuses mothers, mental health professionals, and prosecutors of feeding children stories about sexual abuse. Since the book was published by Lyle Stuart in l986, the Eberles have been cited as experts in sexual abuse trials. They were featured speakers at a conference of the Victims of Child Abuse Laws, a group formed to protect accused parents. |publisher=No Status Quo |date=1988 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] "Finger" promoted the radical left "underground" libertarian or utopian philosophy of free sexuality. "Finger" was self-defined as a "reader-written" magazine. Virtually all the controversial content was submitted by readers and printed uncensored and unedited, often as photographs of the handwritten letters and drawings of the original submittals. All content could therefore be argued to be in de-facto accord with community standards in as much as it was wholly created and written by that community.

Paul Eberle in the 1970s published a children's book called "Mr. and Mrs. Pussycat," "The World's Worst Poems," among others.

They published "The Politics of Child Abuse" (1986), on false allegation of child sexual abuse in the day care sex abuse hysteria in progress in the USA at the time, and in 1993, "The Abuse of Innocence", covering the McMartin preschool trial. Alan Dershowitz called the book, "The Abuse of Innocence", "... a wake-up call to those who believe that prosecutors and their experts can be trusted to do justice in the emotional context of child abuse." [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Abuse of Innocence |url=http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/book_817.html |quote= |publisher=Prometheus Books |date= |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

In 2006, Paul Eberle published a book on the phenomenon of road rage.

Criticism

The Eberles based on their history as editors of pornographic publications were portrayed as "former child pornographers" with a hidden interest in covering up child abuse by their critics, such as Patricia Toth, director of the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Jan Hollingsworth's review of "Innocence" for the Tampa Tribune quoted claims that "For a period of time during the 70s, Paul and Shirley Eberle were the most prolific publishers of child pornography in the United States", drawing on material published in "Ms. magazine" and "Random Lengths", a San Pedro bi-weekly newspaper, apparently supplied by San Bernardino deputy sheriff Toby Tyler. In 1988, the prosecutors in the Kelly Michaels case claimed to have established in court that the Eberles were "child pornographers" [cite news |title=Judge denies mistrial in sex-abuse case |quote= "A state judge yesterday refused to declare a mistrial in a 7-month-old child sex-abuse case over the remarks of a prosecutor, who had called the authors of a book recommended by a defense witness "child pornographers" ... Superior Court Judge William F. Harth denied the motion yesterday, saying use of the word "pornographer" was not improper ... "We established that some of the literature he relied on {as an expert} was written by child pornographers," Goldberg said outside the courtroom yesterday ... He was referring to a book titled "The Politics of Child Abuse," by Paul and Shirley Eberle. |publisher=The Associated Press |date= 1988-01-22|]

John Earl, who worked with the Eberles on their McMartin book, defended the Eberles, claiming that these accusations were "a projection of their own vested interest in maintaining a 'child abuse industry'", on the part of "ideologically entrenched child protection professionals". [cite news |first=John |last=Earl |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Child Pornography, The Politics of Child Abuse, and the Abuse of Innocence: Analysis and Commentary. |url=http://xuk.biz/UKLR/Landslide/library/56/IPT.htm |quote= |publisher=Institute for Psychological Therapies |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 ]

Bibliography

*Paul and Shirley Eberle, "The Adventures of Mrs. Pussycat", illustrated by Anthony DeRosa, Prentice-Hall (1972) ISBN 0130141429
*Paul and Shirley Eberle, "The Politics of Child Abuse" (1986) ISBN 0818404159
*Paul and Shirley Eberle, "The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial" (1993) ISBN 0-87975-809-0
*Paul Eberle, "Terror on the Highway: Rage on America's Roads" (2006) ISBN 1591023793
*Paul Eberle (writing under the pseudonym Swan Egan DeButz), "The Collected Poems of Swan Egan DeButz" Price, Stern, Sloan...

References

Further reading

* [http://www.sirnosir.com/archives_and_resources/library/articles/freep_01.html Dr. Levy On GI Repression (Interview by Paul Eberle)]
*John Earl, " [http://xuk.biz/UKLR/Landslide/library/56/IPT.htm Child Pornography, The Politics of Child Abuse, and the Abuse of Innocence: Analysis and Commentary] " IPT Journal, vol. 7, Institute for Psychological Therapies (1995) []