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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Re: Gender History

    I think the issue at hand here is choice, Mr. Bruce. An infant cannot say whether they choose to be considered as ''male'' or ''female'' if they have ambiguous genitalia. An adult can. Many things are considered wrong if done to children, while not with adults. As for the hijra and the berdache, they are indeed rare, that is true, and gender ...
    Posted to Human Nature by SerenityRising on July 10, 2008

  • Have your Cake and Eat it Too

    Of the many problems plaguing America, this is one which I have the least sympathy and harshest judgement towards America. Abortion? Teen sex? Abstinence? Viagra? You decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on January 25, 2008

  • Re: so there is a slippery slope

    reader_boston:I've been arguing for a long time against the reactionaries who say that gay marriage is some kind of socially inoculating precusor to pedophilia. And so what does this genius do? Proves them right! You ideas are disgusting. How so? reader_boston:So, here we spending valuable [time] For those of us who spend time and energy ...
    Posted to Human Nature by angrykeyboarder on September 30, 2007

  • Re: "consent" and adult responsibility

    rockyhiker13:C'mon, Mr. Saletan. Usually you are a thinker. This idea is a stinker. I'll let that one slide.. ;) rockyhiker13: Tell me this: what do you say to people who think that 16-year-olds should not be responsible for murders they commit, because ''their brains are not developed all the way''? If 16 is the ''age of consent,'' then ...
    Posted to Human Nature by angrykeyboarder on September 30, 2007

  • Re: stop the true sickos

    TruettCollins:Start teaching morality, decency and stop acting like 15 year olds are nothing more than dogs in the street. Once again... Just whom are you addressing this to? And do you and your neighbor or the cashier you just dealt with at the grocery store share the same morals? Their ''morality'' is not going to be the same as ...
    Posted to Human Nature by angrykeyboarder on September 30, 2007