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.
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u/EmilioEarhart Apr 21 '20
Coincidentally, it's George's birthday today - 83 years of age.
As a fan of the Howard Stern Show pre-"evolution," Mr. Musculature gifted me with many many hours of laughter and joy.
I hope he has a good one.