I recently posted on Metafilter in response to a thread about a man convicted for having fictional, sexually explicit stories on his computer. Here is the post.
posted by soulhuntre at 11:18 PM EST on April 9
It’s much easier to control a population when you can make many of them feel guilty, or make many of them criminals in thought.
Step 1: Pedophile hysteria (check)
Step 2: Pass laws to combat pedophile secret army
Step 3: Make the definition fo the crime so ambiguous that anyone can be guilty (is that photo of your child sexual? IS that cute sundress too short?)
Step 4: Define thinking about “the underage” sexually as being an indication of illness that cannot be controlled and will inevitably lead to a crime (create thoughtcrime)
Step 5: Continually raise the age under which people are to be considered “children” for this purpose
And by the time your done, it’s easy. You can accuse anyone, search anywhere and find “evidence” in anyones home. All the while whipping people into a “two minute hate” frenzy to show how much they hate pedophiles (superseding communists and gays) too.
It’s really bizarre. Now, obviously most people will not feel attraction to prepubescent children – there is no evolutionary advantage to it and so it would be an aberration. But post-pubescents are well within the realm of our evolutionary drives. As such many, many people will find them attractive. That doesn’t mean they shoudl act on it, of course. There are good reasons for society to not condone relationships between adults and the legally underage. But to pretend that it is fundementally sick and aberrant for someone to find a 17 year old attractive physically on occasion when there is so much evidence such feelings are common? It makes no sense.
How many people thought Britney Spears was hot when she hit it big at 15 / 16? Lot’s and lots of them. By current standards they are all “sick” of course. I wonder if all those pictures of her (clearly sexually provocative) are now child pornography?
Hell, it is becoming socially common for people (especially the radical feminist left) to disparage any relationship with a large age gap as sick and creepy. Now you might not approve of a 50 year old banging a 22 year old – but pedophile? Get real.
It’s crazy out there.