Fact from fiction, truth from diction. At least it was a middle of the road article, and not the usual propaganda. Part of society not knowing what pedophilia is truly, their thoughts on it are shaped by media hype and sensation. When it comes to sex crimes it is like a triangle with the masses being the Johns, the Government being the whores, and the media being the pimps. If the media senses a particular fear or loathing from society they seek to provide more and more on the evening news. The more of it they show, the more the masses get fascinated and enraged. Seeing that it is an issue with the masses the politicians want to glom onto the repulsiveness, and seek to enact laws and such to deal with it, give the masses what they want, to prostitute themselves for the vote, even on things they know will never work.
The ironic thing is, the media wants to get everyone to hate those convicted of a sex crime, especially molestation with people unilaterally attribute to pedophiles. A sex crime in a secular sense is only a sex crime because it is sex the masses don’t want others doing. Mechanically there is nothing different than a person having sex with a sibling, someone under puberty (providing they are physically large enough and sentient enough to be involved even if they don’t understand all that they are doing), a person having sex with more than one person at a time, or the opposite sex. The only thing that separates those from a secular sense is that the masses simply choose to say ‘A’, and ‘B’ are OK, but ‘C’, ‘D’, and ‘E’ or not. Sex crime is a crime against who? What would be s ex crime in Colorado would be different in Guam, the Cook Islands, Hanoi, Beijing, Kabul, etc. A lot of sex crimes mirror itself across nations but it is still the choice of the masses, nothing less.
Force or coercion being another matter, in actuality, anyone can be molested, and molestation doesn’t always mean sexual contact.
People say they feel threatened because a person with a sex crime is in the neighborhood, or is being treated for pedophilia but never acted on it, ”The tiger in the back yard” so to speak. Are you feel much safer not knowing the neighbor down the block whom you know off for years is a lush and a drunk? There is nothing telling you they are hiding their alcoholism. There is no decal on their windshield, nothing to indicate on their vehicle license plate, or on the Web. You might not find out until your child is dropping baskets with a friend with his/her curbside hoop they got for Christmas and he/she plows through them in a drunken haze. Would you still feel your child were safer then? A pedophile may endanger your children if they act on it, but you and your SO are fairly safe. However, that drunk won’t limit the carnage to just your children, but to you and your whole family; but most can accept them better because they are less dangerous, right?
About 20 some years ago I knew a pedophile, he knew he was a pedophile, and he was up front if any should ask, because he didn’t want to waste time with people who could not handle that fact. He did time because of it, but afterward fought hard daily to control the urge, or feelings to have contact with children that way. He pretty much avoided children himself, not because the law, a pitchfork welding mob, etc made him. Did he eventually lose that battle to stay “clean”? I don’t know, we went our own ways to live our own lives and never stayed in contact, (but not because of his crime). I would be wearier of the drunk in the neighborhood I don’t know then a person convicted for a sex crime I do know.
If we are to think of locking them up, or banishment, just in case, a la “Minority Report”: http://youtu.be/gn2sLUJ-eLk, who do you stop, whom do you stop with?
