[valkyrieanne]

No fifty year old men like 17-18 year old girls? Or vice versa? Why is this a "homosexual problem?"

[Alyosha3]

That's a slippery slope I would prefer not go down.

Are you prepared, in the spirit of Truth, to not do or enable the same?

I cannot speak for other men. But I know what is wrong.

Do you?

[Paine's Ghost]

I spent some time over on the DU GLBT group. They seem somewhat sympathetic to Foley. The argument is that the kids were of legal age in DC but that he was wrong to use his position of power to influence them. They posted this defense is several times.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x41511

They are correct in that Foley was not engaged in pedophilia. The pages were hardly prepubescent. Other then the power difference, they saw nothing wrong, age difference notwithstanding.

[Paine's Ghost]

No fifty year old men like 17-18 year old girls? Or vice versa? Why is this a "homosexual problem?"

And that is an excellent example of what the author is trying to say. Our culture has rules for relationships between men and women. Few tolerate a 50 yr. old man hitting on a 16 yr. old girl. We send them to prison. When Gerry Studds took a 17 yr. old boy to Europe for a sexual escapade, he was rewarded with reelection multiple times.

In England there was a referendum to lower the age of consent for gay boys to 14, stating that they we more sexualized then straight young men. I don't think it past. But in gay circles, most of the sexual moors that we take for granted do not apply.

Straight healthy sex culminates after a friendship evolves to love and is the celebration of that relationship. Ultimately, it brings about a family.
Gay sex is about sexual gratification.