01-22-2003, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally posted by Vigil
I think that there is a difference between someone who physically and sexually abuses an eight year old and someone who has sex with a sexually mature but under eighteen child and again some one who looks at pictures of mature (physically) seventeen year olds.
I don't condone any of these acts and I am glad to say that none attract me in any way, though they do disgust me in varying degrees and this should be reflected in how the law deals with offenders.
I find it a double standard that it is legal to have sex with a seventeen year old, but if you look at a picture of this act you are a paedophile in the same group as baby-rapist and people want your eyes gauged out. This was the point about Elvis - he wasn't a paedophile for having sex with Priscilla at sixteen - but if he were still alive and looked at the pictures of it he would be. So looking at something is worse than doing it? Is it just me?
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It's not just you. I also think it's unreasonable for it to be illegal to look at what's legal to do.
I can understand making it illegal to make such material--being in porno can come back to haunt one and the decision someone would make at 16 very well might not be what they would do in hindsight later. However, if such material was created in places with a younger age limit I just don't see the problem.
Also, I just don't see what's being a pedophile about it. That *USED* to be the usual age to pair off, females of that age are what we are wired to find most attractive. That's a very different issue than children!
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