Reply #203: Perhaps it's possible that even pedophilia is a continuum.

[Ron Green]

What is it that makes our wish to protect children stronger than a desire to have sex with them? As some have pointed out in this thread, sometimes a difference in age of more than 3 years is enough for a criminal charge. At the same time, the advertising environment is full of sexual images of and for pubescent (and younger) girls.

At one end of the spectrum is the Sicko who would rape a young child and kill him or her to cover his tracks. But what's at the other end? A middle-aged man who marries someone 30 years his junior? A 17-year-old boy who can't resist the pouting insouciance of a voluptuous 14-year-old?

And then there's the idea that if a group of people can be successfully defined and demonized, the baiting and torture of that group will sell tickets. There's lots here to be disturbed about.