Posted on 09/20/2004 9:44:07 AM PDT by simicyber
Pedophilia Chic Reconsidered:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/329pdstm.asp
UNTIL VERY, VERY RECENTLY, public questioning of the social prohibition against pedophilia--to say nothing of positive celebration of child molestation--was practically non-existent in American life. The reasons why are not opaque. To most people, the very word "pedophilia" summons forth a preternatural degree of horror and revulsion; and the criminal law that reflects those reactions has consistently treated the sexual molestation of minors as a serious and eminently punishable offense. So it is small wonder that, historically speaking, the taboo against using legal minors for sex was no more publicly controversial in the United States than the prohibitions against, say, cannibalism or bestiality. Those few partisans of the idea who did sometimes sally forth customarily found themselves regarded as the lowest of the social low, even by the criminal class.
This social consensus against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, however--unlike those against, say, animal sex or incest--is apparently eroding, and this regardless of the fact that the vast majority of citizens do overwhelmingly abominate the thing. For elsewhere in the public square, the defense of adult-child sex--more accurately, man-boy sex--is now out in the open. Moreover, it is on parade in a number of places--therapeutic, literary, and academic circles; mainstream publishing houses and journals and magazines and bookstores--where the mere appearance of such ideas would until recently have been not only unthinkable, but in many cases, subject to prosecution.
I'll double-ditto that! With 100% recividism, all pedophiles should be executed; no exceptions.
By "touching" you mean gagging, strangling, forcefully sodomizing, slicing, and all the other methods of fiends, right?
Jeez "touching" is a bit of an understandment, it's a gentle way of putting it. You are obviously not a child molester then ;)
";all pedophiles should be executed."
You are a "child-hater"? Why? ohhhh you mean "molester". Careful with the terminology. Child molesters hate children so much that they use the term "pedophile" in the derogatory sense. Almost the same way that a bigot uses the phrase "n*$##$%-lover". Be very very careful with that from now on.
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