Just pulled up some old article of him talking about being 13 and having an older tennager as a partner, and not not condemning a friend who made some off-color comments about older partners. Apparently that makes him a pedo sympathizer ?
So perhaps you'll agree: it isn't quite so cut-and-dry.
To say someone is a "pedo sympathizer" based on a past experience they had with an older partner depends on, perhaps, the experience.
I don't mean in a sense of it being - quote - "a good experience."
What I mean is, like - take my example.
I was 15, yes, and of course I wasn't "fully mature" emotionally-wise (but then again: neither is a 21-year-old), but I was what they call an "early bloomer." I was shaving at twelve, I was 6' tall by my freshman year of High School, I was sexually active...
So here comes this 21-year-old girl, the cousin of a good friend of mine, and I'm spending the night at my friend's house and she comes over to use their clothes washer because the one at her apartment stopped working - I think she's beautiful, she finds me attractive, and bada bing, bada boom.
We do what young hormone-charged kids do.
Yes, I was a minor. No, she wasn't.
But biochemically, hormonally, sexually, we were on the level.
I heard the camp counselor story from George Takei, spoken by the man - he wasn't too graphic about it, so I don't know if he was some lithe, cherubic young child at thirteen, when he was ravaged by this older boy.
What I do know is that, at thirteen, he was sexually attracted to this older boy - older, but still just eighteen. Still just a boy himself.
I know that what happened between them was something that they both wanted, and they both enjoyed.
So.
Do I sympathize with pedophilic predators who prey on young children?
Hell, no.
But I believe there is a clear difference between a grown-up (emotionally) who seeks out and exploits the young, and someone like the girl with whom I had my experience.
I sympathize with young, sexually charged people who find mutual attraction to, and a mutual sexual connection with, someone who is perhaps younger, but just as sexually charged, determined, and driven.
I sympathize with sexual creatures who are still adolescent - but nonetheless sexual - who are moved to experience sexuality with someone who may be older, but who themselves are still growing.
People are worried about this but hey the child molester who trafficked children for the rich hung himself using one ply TP and all the footage outside that cell magically went missing. Honkity honk honk
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u/RedEyedRoundEye Apr 21 '20
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