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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
Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET
Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008
A valentines day thought...
From The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: Paradisio: Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled Since sweating lust on earth usurp'd His name. Under whose simple semblance man hath fed upon fresh beauty blotting it with blame, Which the hot tyranny stains and soon bereaves As caterpillers do the tender leaves. Love comforteth like ...
Posted to Human Nature by klatu on February 14, 2008