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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

  • Ancient Greek Pederasty does not support Gay Marriage!

    Homosexuals would do well to avoid any association with the traditions of ancient Greece, especially since many on the ''traditional values'' side already believe that homosexuals are sexual predators who prey on children and want to seduce them into a same-sex lifestyle, which seems very similar to the pederasty practices of teachers in ancient ...
    Posted to Books by szkott on September 23, 2009

  • Palin's Choice

    I love the thought of women ascending to high office. While women haven't hit the executive office yet, many fine and talented woman have been in the Senate, Congress, and cabinet positions for decades. As a child of the 70s I myself am abundantly gifted with the benefits of the 70s woman's movement. But the thing that bothers me about Sara ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by kgcobb on September 3, 2008

  • 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

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008