Posted on 08/24/2019 10:03:40 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
EXTREME ADULT CONTENT ALERT. ADULT EYES ONLY.
This piece has been a long time coming. I was alerted to this a few years ago, researched it, saw it was true, and then heard enough other anecdotes from across North America to become convinced (with encouragement) that a warning needs to go out, especially to those in Trad Catholic parishes. The best way to protect oneself from sex predators is INFORMATION.
We’ve probably all been to a Renaissance Fair or at least heard of people who go off on weekends and do Medieval/Renaissance role playing/reenactment stuff. People make their own costumes, many learn fencing and archery, and many also learn genuine artisanal crafts such as blacksmithing. Hey – that all sounds pretty cool, right? In this day and age, one could hardly argue with a person who instead of sitting in front of a TV watching mindless sports, or playing video games, goes out and actually DOES SOMETHING and interacts with other people right? Absolutely.
Enter the SCA, which stands for The Society for Creative Anachronism. SCA is by far the largest organization of Medieval “role playing”, which today has picked up the term “LARPing”, with LARP standing for “Live Action Role Playing”. The SCA was founded in ARSH 1966 in Berkeley, California (red flag number one) and today has tens of thousands of members in chapters all over the world. Members join and adopt a persona or character, and then live in this “alternative world” as their character at SCA camps and gatherings.
Here’s the problem. While SCA does in fact involve Medieval reenactment, it is also at its core a sex cult revolving around group sex, orgies, “swinging”, wife swapping, child sex, and all manner of truly sickening behavior.
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No, its not like the Catholic Church problem.
You do not seem to be aware, but with the Catholic Church the actual priests of the church seduced young parishoners, and then the church covered for it and helped hide it from law enforcement. And the church is supposed to be setting as n example of God’s prescribed behaviour.
With the SCA, some of the attendees are having orgies after hours.
Its not a babysitter, and it damned sure isn’t billed as anything like a youth organization. Grown men and women beat on each other with rattan replicas of ancient weapons and adults wearing armor hit one another hard enough to leave bruises.
If there are children brought, it should be as spectators.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that this like the Renaissance Faires. It is not. It is closer to the civil war reenactment groups but with replica weapons swung hard enough to clobber somebody.
Ok, well, this is news to me. I was actively involved in my 17th year of age, and that seems like a cherry time to be predated on. I wasn’t.
Maybe I’m just too unattractive.
My sister (69 years old) has been attending the annual Penn. wars for 30 years. She cooks for a group of 30 or 40 participants. She says this article is complete BS.
This is akin to the claims that child sex traffickers brought in over 75,000 children for each and every Super Bowl to service the Fans who came to town for the game. . . Absurd on its face, claiming that essentially every football fan who came to the game was a pedophile who came to the game needed at least one personal child prostitute and that, without evidence, there were 75k female children being abused by these rabid sex obsessed fans. Yet the news media parroted this made up propaganda statistic being spread by the rabid feminists as if it were factual without even stopping and saying “Say, what?”
The Super Bowl stadium holds only 75 thousand fans, and not all of them are adults, and not all of those adults are male. How many airliner or bus loads of children would it take to ferry that many child prostitutes into town? How about motel rooms in an already fan saturated city? None of it made any logical sense, but the main stream media repeated it and tut-tutted about the horrible state of nasty men who watch football.
Now we have the horrible state of people who like to re-enact medieval times, joust, and wear armor. SHEESH!
that wasn’t my point- i didn’t say the situation was ‘like hte catholic church’ I was replyign to the person who said they never saw any signs- just becvause soemoen doesn’t see signs doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening without hem knowing about it- that was the point
[[You seem to be under the misapprehension that this like the Renaissance Faires.]]
Huh? No I’m not- I’m simply replying abotu hte reports that state these things are going on- I haven’t even given them 100% verifying agreement as I don’t know if they are happening or not- I suspect they are based on the reports- but I’ll withhold judgement until it gets investigated further-
[[With the SCA, some of the attendees are having orgies after hours.]]
That may or may not be- investigations will uncover the truth- but the claim that kids are being assaulted is alarming- and this should be investigated thoroughly now- not later- not covered up- My comment was that IF organizers or sponsors are aware- and haven’t alerted the police- and are still sponsoring these people, then lawsuits will come out accusing them of neglect to protect children at some point
That’s all- don’t read too much into my comments-
Just another facet of “The Great Falling Away”.
Nonsense.
I’ve known several participants.
Celibate nerds, every one, and none ever mentioned any “sex cult” shenanigans. If there had been, they wouldn’t have participated.
Every acting troop, though, has its actors who flirt, discreetly looking to get laid.
So what?
We were in the SCA in the 80s. Some people screwed around, yeah. Others didn’t.
Life is weirder all over now, though.
...even a Knight of the Round Table can be tricked...
“Not ONCE in the past thirty years have I EVER encountered or heard of anything remotely sexually inappropriate.”
And my experience is that people LIE a lot.
And welcome to FR, by the way.
I have been to a couple of Ren Faires and I gotta say the dressup is very sexy. There’s gotta be a LOT of corndogging after hours
These have some overlap, but they are not the same thing.
At the Ren Faires people aren’t generally physically dog tired and tending to various bruises by evening.
The emphasis is on medieval combat. Think of the SCA as several steps up from those foam rubber sword things.
It’s not “like the Catholic church thing” in the way you are saying now either.
The Catholic Church tried to handle things in house. If there is somebody making a problem at a SCA event they simply call the cops out. So even in that respect your analogy falls apart.
I have occasionally gone to a Ren Fair. You see all kinds there. If I ever go again, I will have to pay closer attention. I guess I am too naive on such things.
I used to do that back in the late 80's, but we all thought the SCA was weird even then. They were separatists, in a way, and not directly related to the Renaissance Faire's promoters.
Not to mention that Catholic priests fit right in....
I’ve known some SCA-ers and was even recruited to join when I was younger......If I had known this I might have joined.
i guess you’re not getting what I’m saying- people attending a church with a pedo priest who was attacking their kids without their knowledge or other people’s kids and knew nothing about it is what I’m talking about - not about the church leadership at the top conspiring to covering up- What i was corresponding to was the person claiming they never saw anything or heard of anything going on- and i said- yeah, well neither did people who’s pastor, unbeknownst to them, was a pedo in many cases- the abuse went on for years, and noone but the victims were aware of it- so no- the analogy doesn’t fall apart- you are reading into my response to the person-
[[You do not seem to be aware, but with the Catholic Church the actual priests of the church seduced young parishoners, and then the church covered for it and helped hide it from law enforcement.]]
Again- We’re not talking about systematic coveups by the churches that conspired to keep it secret- we’re talking about small 1 priest churches where noone in the church was aware of the problems- everyone being shocked to find out they had a pedo priest in their midst- - Yes, some larger churches the church leaders knew, other churches no, noone knew- the kids were threatened to keep quiet by the priest- or too ashamed to tell anyone- and the abuse went on for years with noone knowing but the pedo and the victims-
This is what i was referring to, responding to the person who said they knew nothing about the SCA having any kind of suspicious activity going on- the point was, just because they didn’t see or hear about it personally didn’t mean it wasn’t happening- just like in some churches where noone knew it was happening-
Again- you are reading more than i ever intended into my statements-
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