(November 22, 2015 at 1:52 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Paedophilia has only been a crime in America for maybe 100-110 years. In 1895 in Delaware the age of consent was 7 (seven). During slavery times there was no minimum age at all.
The Babylonian Talmud has whole sections devoted to how to have sex with babies.
The outrage over sex with children is a very recent development. In the past just about every did it or was a target of it. It's still a fairly routine practice in some societies today. Today in America the most common offenders are priests and women teachers. Women usually get a slap on the wrist while men do serious prison time.
I was just listening to a podcast about childhood abuse coincidentally just as this thread was created.
In the podcast the man talks about a study of childhood in the past and how it's only recently and in mainly western civilization that it isn't common for children to be used/abused sexually.
It's pretty much a barrage of information but it's pretty shocking. It covers clitoris removal, cultures in India where wives don't leave their husbands in the house along with their daughters, incestuous tribes of Papua New Guinea, erotic punishments. I've seen separate documentaries basically covering the same information, in Islamic countries men often have sex with boys because of some twisted logic that it's seen as being a taboo to be seen in public with an unmarried female, but it's easier to walk around with boys.
I think the stigma attached to sex with young children has way more good points than bad, a step forwards.
I'm pretty sure there's an established link between abused/ neglected children and a whole load of mental illnesses, a lack of empathy and so on.
I think the difference between a homosexuality and a sexuality which is attracted to children is that the sexuality attracted to prepubescent children is, for the most part, evil. It holds societies back and creates psychotic, illogical adults with a lack of empathy to fellow humans.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
