Out of my friends and relatives, I can think of at least eight or nine who were sexually molested, including being raped, as children. Not as adolescents, as children. This is just off hand. They all have had lifelong problems, some overcome better than others.
I do not know eight or nine who were killed or maimed in auto accidents as children.
Your use of the words “hysteria and handwringing” is disgusting; you are saying that people people get all unnecessarily worked up about child pornography; over reacting.
Well I’ll tell you how I’d like to react - kill the fiends who produce, sell and use child pornography. No more problem. They deserve death; the shame is that our civilization has forgotten how to protect the innocent and punish the wicked.
You know a lot more people who’ve been sexually molested than me. Are you just including close friends and family or also people you know casually? I’ve had several close family members killed and maimed in auto accidents, but I can only think of two friends I know that were improperly touched as children.
Not that it matters. I think pedophiles should be sterilized or put to death, so we don’t really disagree on the proper treatment for pedos. I just think it’s interesting how life gives us different experiences and how it forms our impressions of how widespread things are. Personally, I find it very hard to believe that there are so many people in the US who enjoy child porn.
Apologizies. The way I worded that first sentence made it ambiguous. I meant that you know more people who’ve been molested than I have. I was not molested in any form as a kid.