John Derbyshire's Amusing Description of Pedophilia in England

National Review Online ^ | June 21, 2004 | John Derbyshire

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Front page, main headline: "HUSH MONEY — Jacko's secret $15m payoff to sex-case boy." Picture of Michael Jackson. [Mild interest — not enough to make me actually read the story — colored with some pity at seeing Jackson's self-mutilated face.] Yeah, yeah, what a surprise. Saw it on O'Reilly, anyhow. Starting to feel a bit sorry for the guy. Sure, he's a weird freak, but has he actually done any HARM? What proportion of American parents would let Jacko fondle their son for $15m? My guess: at least 10 percent. Would I? No! But being felt up by perverts used to be a normal feature of childhood, at any rate in England. My current reading — Philip Hoare's biography of Noël Coward — confirms this. Coward, who was a pretty child, spent so much time fighting off clergymen in pre-WW1 London, it made him an atheist for life. We make such a big deal of this nowadays, probably because we feel guilty that we can't be bothered much with our kids, having too many other things to distract us.

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Pedophilia, we can all agree, is a disgusting act, and I agree with the Bibilical teaching that pedophiles should be thrown into a river with a millstone tied to their necks.

But John Derbyshire is such a gifted writer, with a dark sense of humor, that he makes a tragic event sound amusing.

But he is correct, about the depravity of Pre-WWI England, which Charles Dickens described accurately in his novels.

[annyokie]

Derbyshire spends waaaaaa-ay too much time worrying himself about what homosexuals are doing.

He's creepy, regardless of the cool math problems he posts in his column.

[Luke]

John Derbyshire's Amusing Description of Pedophilia in England

The only thing amusing about pedophilia would be public castration with a rusty hacksaw blade.

[BossLady]

Interesting Read.....