Breaking the Law, Pedaphilically

NOTHING CAN STIR UP a mainstream American community like a good old fashioned case of pedaphila. Local high ranking male caught solicitating sex with fourteen year old girl. That'll do it every time. First, there is the allure of sex in the media, always certain to improve subscription numbers, and of course the bringing down of the powerful man is always good sport. Everybody chimes in, and the comments are surprisingly interesting, and revealing. Any man engaged in working with children is suspect. Coaches, teachers, priests, all males are potential child molestors. The women's movement has spawned an anti men's movement, at work in family and divorce courts across the country, designed to strip American men of fatherhood. There is always a certain number of mentally ill pedaphiles and mass murderers among us, our task is to identify and neutralize them before they strike.... Amid all this noise, perhaps a few simple facts are in order. When in doubt, rely on facts. Separate opinion from fact, and stick with the facts. One glaring fact is that for human beings to be sexually attracted to a lot of different people, of all ages and genders, is as natural, and thus as "normal" as sin of any other sort. Humanity is attracted to sin. Sin is fun. Sin is normalhuman behavior. The most common reaction to pedaphila is to call anyone who engages in it a "pervert". Mentally ill, and morally bankrupt. What we should really call them, for the sake of simplicity and honesty, is "lawbreakers", aka "criminals", the way we call bankrobbers lawbreakers. Sex is not perversion, it is natural. Civilization must outlaw sex with minors for the same reason it outlaws bank robbery, for the sake of decency (our arbitrary societal definition of decency), order, stability. It is the "right" thing to do. At least, so we have said. When I was twelve, I had a crush on my music teacher, which was not entirely platonic. Just recently a fourteen year old girl had a crush on me. Ho hum. Law upholds civilization. But that don't mean that lusting after children is perverted, sick, or abnormal, it means that its human nature, and humans, (flash bulletin!), are animals. It simply means that our modern civilization cannot destroy the fundamental savage, beastly animal that hunamkind was, is, and most probably, will forever be. therefore we must try to control the human animal that we are, through the law. Modern America, the land of the capitalistic exploitatin of sex for profit, where sex is thrown at us by our media, and the land of Christian values. Fire and gasoline. Lawbreakers break the law when they are either desperate, or they perceive, in a carefully calculated manner, that the advantages to be gained by law breaking outweigh the advantages of obeying the law. One certainly does not have to be "mentally ill" or "perverted" to break the law. People do it all the time. At one time or another, all of us do it. IN America the law defines an adult as eighteenyears old or older. In other places in other times, fourteen year olds were defined as adults. I like the way we do it in America. Its just too damned bad that so many people break the law.