There’s a fag Freeper booster section here. They should know..
The issue is context. Talking about how healthy a mentoring relationship between men and teen boys can be, followed by an explanation how sex between them wouldn't be pedophilia seems indicative of, well, justifying it and approving of it.
A transcript:
His follow up:
Milo on Facebook:
I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.
I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors. I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers. I’ve outed three of them, in fact — three more than most of my critics. And I’ve repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophilia in my feature and opinion writing. My professional record is very clear.
But I do understand that these videos, even though some of them are edited deceptively, paint a different picture.
I’m partly to blame. My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, “advocacy.” I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past in different ways.
As to some of the specific claims being made, sometimes things tumble out of your mouth on these long, late-night live-streams, when everyone is spit-balling, that are incompletely expressed or not what you intended. Nonetheless, I’ve reviewed the tapes that appeared last night in their proper full context and I don’t believe they say what is being reported.
I do not advocate for illegal behavior. I explicitly say on the tapes that I think the current age of consent is “about right.”
I do not believe sex with 13-year-olds is okay. When I mentioned the number 13, I was talking about the age I lost my own virginity.
I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” — which gay men often do to describe young men of consenting age — instead of “young man.” That was an error.
I am certainly guilty of imprecise language, which I regret.
Anyone who suggests I turn a blind eye to illegal activity or to the abuse of minors is unequivocally wrong. I am implacably opposed to the normalization of pedophilia and I will continue to report and speak accordingly.
And, 1 hour ago:
I’ve gone through worse. This will not defeat me.”
Previous tweets on pedophilia:
https://twitter.com/TweetBrettMac/status/833852086538350592
He is drawing the distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia. One is sex between an adult and a prepubescent child. The other is between an adult and a post pubescent teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia
It was on O’reily tonight.
The guy’s a throw-away.
homos “mentoring” boys—how is that different than homo boy scouts?
WHAT IS REALITY!?! - Firesign Theater
( That’s from the student crowd listening to “Poop’s Principles” )
But in this as in so many cases “everything is one hundred eighty degrees out of phase.” On the album, the hip students were running rhetorical rings around Principal Poop.
Now it is those very students, grown up into ossified caricatures of their former selves, who can’t box themselves out of the paper bag they have entrapped themselves in.
“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 attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able (unclear and cut off by others)…That’s not what we are talking about. You don’t understand what pedophilia is if you are saying I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.”
I think his mistake was using the word “boys” in the context of “kids in college”. He had an older partner when he was 17, which was perfectly legal (England). He has stated that he was sexually aggressive at 13, when he lost his virginity. If you mix it all up it could be, mistakenly I believe, that he was saying it’s ok for older men to have sex with 13yo’s.
He has turned in multiple pedo’s and was a victim of child abuse. I don’t believe for a minute he believes in pedophilia. He does believe we don’t understand sexuality very well, even going as far as to state that transgenders and lesbians don’t exist, they’re just confused.
There’s elements on both the left and right that want to see him go down. He hasn’t done anything and he has clarified his position. I’ll pray for him and give him a pass for the misunderstanding.
I am sick of seeing conservatives falling for whatever trick the left comes up with to discredit effective conservatives. You will see I’m sure a few instances of what Trump has possibly said stuff about other races in footage that Tom Arnold has or from files of Apprentice or whatever — expect it to come in the future. The left is trying to discredit Netanyahu for taking some cigars and wine also currently. None of this will affect my high opinion of Netanyahu, and my VERY HIGH opinion of Trump one iota, whatever he grabs.
I’m sick of the ACU and the supposed conservatives attacking Milo. I suspect he is ahead in line with God than the many supposed “Christians” that populate these parts and the ACU. I want to tell fellow Freepers who don’t support Milo at this time: Make like a leaf and get the __ out of here.
It should be OBVIOUS what is going on, here:
PizzaGate has had The Left terrified and doing somethin unfamiliar for the past 3 months:
PLAYING DEFENSE.
WHERE does the energy come from for this vigorous assault on Milo...?
From the relieved ZEAL from getting off of the ropes and onto a battle plan they know well:
OFFENSE.
It wouldn’t matter HOW thin their case, they’d have sprung for the TINIEST opening on the pedophile front.
They only needed an OPENING, and they got it.
And you IDIOTS are re-supplying them, you idiotic, polite, Country Club, blue-haired, checked golf pants types.
The ‘what’ has been explained pretty well in other comments, the strange thing is that Milo didn’t immediately go on offense in response.
For all the normalizing of homosexuality that has occurred over the past two decades in popular culture, the concept of gay teenaged boys interacting romantically witj older guy men is stubbornly resistant to the culture wars.
Young straight guy with older female? Hot for Teacher or Mrs. Robinson. Boy is given free rein to fantasize, older woman is expected by society not to act because younger male has nothing to offer her, but if the younger male is in the age of majority, the older woman is a ‘cougar’.
Young straight girl with older male? If the girl has a crush, at worst she is considered confused. Older male is at least expected to understand by society not to reciprocate or pursue until a certain age, but men are generally given free rein to fantasize so long as she hits the age of majority first. Successful men are almost expected to have a youthful ‘trophy wife’.
Younger gay male with older gay male? Totally verboten. not even in popular culture is it seen as acceptable to portray older gay men with drastically younger partners. Strangely, this was more accepted in years prior, but the concept of the ‘old queen’ is apparently antiquated and unacceptable.
Remember, It doesn’t matter what is actually right or wrong with the Milo haters, it only matters to them that he is destroyed. If some of their hypocrisy is a casualty of these skirmishes, all the better.
When Tucker Carlson asked a “Gay” anti Trump guest what Trump would do to hurt gays or what he has done, the gay boy replied after much deflection, “Trump hasn’t rekeased his taxes yet.”
Liberal insanity.
I believe in UK it's about 16.
America is 18, if I'm not mistaken. Is there any variance by state?
Of course, growing up, (and even looking back through historical American census records) you hear tales about Rolling Stones band members wanting to marry young women, etc.
It's a fact that in the "old days" it wasn't totally cast in stone what the "age of consent" meant, and, for instance, it's not totally out of the realm to see 18th and 19th century (even 20th) US Census records which list 26-30 year old husbands with 16 year old wives, even 15 year old wives.
Of course, in these modern times, such considerations and sensibilities obviously apply in the gay realm.
Milo says some outrageous and "edgy" things sometimes. It's certain that he's "on the record" regarding his overall opposition to the exploitation of children.
If he stepped over the line too many times with something he said, he's got some 'splainin' to do.
If Milo's really having a press conference tomorrow, I'll be interested to hear what he has to say...
I like Milo but I dont want to hear anyone talking about sexuality. Be it gay or straight. Looks like hes in some trouble here and that’s too bad. However there is a price to pay for indiscretion and if he has to pay it’s his own fault.
I eont know the details of the latest story but Milo was 100% correct about Islam. I stand with him against the expansion of Islam.
This is an attempt to destroy an effective voice on the right.
No more.
No less.
Milo will survive.
Put a fork in him, he’s done. I don’t know if he was kidding or not but when you go against the left he should have known they would dig thru everything he ever said or did to destroy him. Now by comparison if he was a leftist and those comments were exposed, anyone who spoke against it would be called homophobic.
What’s being reported sounds out of character for Milo. He usually comes down hard on sexual perversions including homosexuality.
I will certainly give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s singlehandedly taking a wrecking ball at the PC culture that has infested our Universities. No one else comes close.