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by anna at 07:53 PM on July 06, 2005
My sister and my host on vacation hates TV. There were like six TVs there but she forbade any watching of them. She's paying the rent so that's ok. But I get home hungering for news. So I have been watching the newscasts avidly, one after another. I know that the French President dissed British and Finnish food, costing France the 2012 Olympic bid. And I know that there are 549,000 registered sex offenders in our midst (in the US alone.) You've got to figure that puts the number of deviants out there at well over a million. Then an expert comes on the screen saying that despite prison sentences (where they are treated none too well by fellow inmates) and "treatment" 95% go back to their old ways.
What does this tell us? To me it says that whether it is genetic or a result of some environmental deal, that is the way these people are and they will never change. Flashers, rapists, child molesters, bestiality fans, you name it and there appears to be a significant portion of the population who prefer that to regular action with consenting adults.
A long time ago homosexuality had a similar stigma attached to it. There were homos but they guarded their secret lives carefully. God forbid anyone would find out Jim Nabors was boning Rock Hudson.
Of course the difference is one of informed consent. My wife has been flashed and she certainly didn't agree to the encounter. I know other people who were sexually abused as children, usually by Catholic priests. By definition altar boys can't give informed consult to getting corn holed by these sickening perverts. Clearly this type of thing is wrong when viewed through the perceptive prism of the majority.
But when you look at the offenders objectively, what is the difference? Even though the vast majority of people, myself included, disapprove of their (violent, forceful) sexual preferences and think they should be killed or castrated, does that delegitimize their preferences entirely? And if this is something they are unable to control, as with the criminally insane, how can they be held legally liable for their acts?
I checked out the age of consent worldwide and found that it is pretty uniform. Except for Spain. There you can have sex with a boy or girl of 13 and it is coapacetic as far as the government is concerned. Her father may be a different story.
These are the types of thoughts that occur to me sometimes and I am not at all sure what to do with them. Hence this post.
comments (8)
OK mg,
Why does your sister/host have SIX TVs and doesn't let them be watched? Are they her TV's or were you in a rental? Seems kinda strange to me.
As to the rest of your post. Maybe we should scan everyone somehow for any deviancies and put them in controlled areas to keep the rest of society safe. And what happens when we find out that there are only a handfull of non-deviant people in the US?
Just wondering.
by Long Time Lurker at July 7, 2005 2:26 PM
I am anna. not mg. rental. big sucker. it's no handful he said 549,000 REGISTERED sex offenders whatever that means.
by anna at July 7, 2005 7:37 PM
Sorry Anna,
My bad. I must have been stoned or something.
That makes a little more sense about the TVs. You didn't sneak down late at night for a little TV fix? I would have.
So if there are 549,000 registered sex offenders how many haven't been registered? Is there a box to check on your tax return? I wonder what the incentive is for registering? Do you get a discount on porn sites?
by Long Time Lurker at July 8, 2005 1:40 PM
Her kids snuck a little MTV but they shut if off when she walks in scowling like they'd been watching porn. I think the registered ones are convicts who've gotten out. But that leaves all the ones why haven't been caught or skipped registration upon release. Must be a million or so altogether.
by anna at July 8, 2005 6:06 PM
Isn't it easier to get a job working with kids if you're a registered? I think that's the benefit. School teachers, lollypop.. uh... men. "New neighbour who seemed so nice that after a week of knowing him we made him the neigbourhood babysitter, and he seemed so willing to do it, too."
Always seems to be the registered nutters getting caught again, and again, and here at least they always seem to be doing all right finding a job working with kids just weeks or months after they're released. Exactly what does a man have to do to get locked up these days?
I like the idea of tabloids naming and shaming, and printing pictures of offenders... it means the offenders actually start asking to be locked away, asking for police protection, to be kept safe from any unwanted physical attention from guys three times their size. Scenarios reversed, sorta.
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He used to be such a nice boy. He used to cut the grass...
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