What I do know is he absolutely infuriated the left. Must have been a good messenger even though perhaps flawed.
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“This arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent which totally destroys, you know the understanding of many of us have the complexities and subtleties and complicated nature of many relationships.“You know people are messy and complex and actually, in the homosexual world particularly. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, that sort of coming of age relationships.
“The relationships with those with older men have helped those young boys discover who they are. And give them security and safety, provide them with love and reliable and sort of a rock. Where they can’t speak to their parents.”
When another person on the podcast interjects to say that sounds like molestation, he makes a joke about child abuse, and argues semantics about the term ‘pedophilia’:
“You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is an attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able to understand. That is not what we are talking about.”Asked to clarify if he’s advocating for these “cross-generational relationships“, he says that he is:
“Yeah I dont mind saying… I don’t mind admitting that. And I think particularly in the gay world and outside the Catholic Church if that is where some of you wanna go with this. I think in the gay World some of the most important enriching and incredibly the… mm … you know life affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences.”
The video: Milo Yiannopoulos - PaulsEgo - TheAmazingAtheist - and More! DPP #193 (begins around 55:45 - language alert)
He's saying, quit clearly, that if a 13 year old is sexually mature, it's not pedophilia (i.e. it's OK) for older men to have a sexual relationship with them.
This way of thinking should never be ok with anybody...let alone with Conservatives, no matter how much he infuriates the left.
“He’s saying, quit clearly, that if a 13 year old is sexually mature, it’s not pedophilia (i.e. it’s OK) for older men to have a sexual relationship with them.”
By definition, it is not pedophilia.
However, it is statutory rape, and sexual maturity is not the guiding standard for statutory rape. The standard is emotional and intellectual maturity.
That is the flaw in his argument. Very often people reach sexual maturity long before they attain emotional or intellectual maturity. The fact that a teenage girl has sprouted T&A doesn’t mean she’s ready to take on a practiced seducer.
In my younger days, I knew a guy who had a long-running sexual relationship with a 13 year old girl. She appeared to enjoy the relationship. Then again, he was 13 too (and so was I)
oh awesome, (/sarc)
That is a shame, hope he rethinks and reflects some of his statements.