Go RANDI! Pedophilia is not an act of sex!

KyndCulture

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:46 PM
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Go RANDI! Pedophilia is not an act of sex!

It's an act of violence and has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

She gave a perfect description of victim of pedohilia.

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greyl

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:50 PM
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1. Pedophilia is not necessarily an act of violence.

Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 03:51 PM by greyl

It begins within the realm of fantasy or attraction, and may stay there.
It does have a lot to with sex, sorry Randi.

edit: clarity

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uppityperson

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:02 PM
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8. control disguised as sex

Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 04:07 PM by uppityperson

edited to remove "violence" part since I wrote too fast and didn't mean that part.

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KyndCulture

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:03 PM
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9. absolutely!

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greyl

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:04 PM
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10. No, it's a sexual attraction which may or may not

result in an action.

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uppityperson

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:06 PM
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11. I agree that you can be attracted and not act on this.

but part of the attraction is control. (I am deleting the violence part since I wrote this in error, used to responding so to rape things, but this is pedophelia and my fingers got ahead of my brain, so to speak)

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greyl

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:24 PM
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13. Attracted to prepubescents because they are vulnerable?

Yeah, I'm sure that's a component.
Similar to why high-heels are supposed to be attractive.

www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/pedophilia.html

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uppityperson

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:30 PM
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14. Yes.

There are all sorts of variations on sexuality, what attracts whom why when how. Main problems I can see are (1) getting stuck on something that ends up being more negative or doesn't work anymore, of any type sex stuff and (2) acting on something that is hurtful. Other than that, whatever. Pedophelia seems to have a component of attraction to the vulnerable.

High heels emphasize legs and butt (shortening calf muscles) and make it more difficult to get around (vulnerable I guess).

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greyl

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:34 PM
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15. The "difficult" to run away angle

is what I was referring to. I think I heard that from my girlfriend (Women's Studies).

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uppityperson

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:46 PM
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17. MrUP's mother called them

"knock me down and f* me shoes". She was outspoken and wore flats.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:51 PM
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2. Wasn't Foley a child safety advocate?

It seems to me that child safety advocates are preoccupied with sex with children.

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KyndCulture

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:55 PM
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3. Yes

They insert themselves into situations involving children.

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LSK

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:56 PM
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4. who are these fools claiming Foley is a distraction issue????

Do these people ever live in the real world???????

Sex scandals gets peoples attention. The Iraq war and 9/11 is BORING people. Sorry, that is REALITY!

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:58 PM
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5. I guess they fall in two general camps.

1. Republicans.

2. People who think it's a Karl Rove plot to distract us from the real issue of how George Bush caused the tsunami.

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KyndCulture

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:59 PM
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6. Yes it is a distraction, who cares!!!

it's pissing off republicans and we need that. Whatever it is, it's good for us.

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greyl

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Wed Oct-04-06 03:59 PM
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7. Yep, it's just one front of the perfect storm. nt

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sandnsea

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:17 PM
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12. It's actually a fantastic 'leader'

Woodward is on Hardball giving a pretty fascinating interview. Lots of people tuned in for Foleygate and stuck around to hear this which they may have not heard otherwise.

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LostinVA

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:42 PM
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16. Quite a few DUers

I'll take a good legit sex scandal any day -- it gets the masses attention. Especially this one: many kids were molested, and those children are now adults. THey don't like this, especially the GOP leadership brushing it aside.

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LSK

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Wed Oct-04-06 04:47 PM
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18. not really, just a handful

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