A sexually mature legally underage person is not a child, physically. She/he has the physical characteristics of an adult. It's considered wrong (in most places in the US) for a 30-year-old man to sleep with a hawt 16-year-old girl; for him to sleep with an 8-year-old is considered perversion.
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 8:28 AM
> Oh, you might be surprised about
> footwear. And certainly there is a huge
> market that draws on sexual attraction to those who are
> sexually mature but
> below the age of consent. And how are we to explain
> away the little girl
> beauty contest industry? My guess is that while most
> people don't have an
> attraction to any one particular taboo, most people have a
> ton of taboo
> desires. And of course overtly violent distaste can
> be one manifestation of
> that desire.
> MM
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Usually, the people who engage in such othering in
> fact don't have such
> > taboo desires. That why they other it. Most people
> have no sexual attraction
> > to children -- or donkeys or footwear, or any of a
> long list of unusual
> > objects of sexual arousal.
> >
> > --- On Fri, 5/22/09, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > > It prophylactically implies that those who engage
> in such
> > > Othering do not
> > > have taboo desires.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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