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I am quite sure there are many viewpoints due to many varied experiences. My gay friend who was sleeping with the teacher, was at the time over-the-moon happy. He wasn't the most handsome guy and had grown up with an abusive father. The affection that this older man gave him, brought a light to his face, and I remember there was an absolutely positive change to his demeanor. Always smiling and happy. Years later, his memory spun around in the opposite direction and speaks only of that period of time as having been a victim, "used" by a predatory teacher. When he first said this to me (we were in our 40's by then). I had to spend a few minutes trying to digest what he was saying because I remembered everything he was saying in a COMPLETELY different way. It was like driving through a parallel universe with him. Completely bizarre experience because I was present for much of their time together as we were both on the debate team and the teacher was our debate coach. (They would slip off together after meets and/or practices with an offer to "drive him home".)

Very sad. It's starting to appear that Harry is suffering from the same mental illness his mother had. Dementia-Narcissus

Her entire career is built on appearances. Her daughter Alexis has often described Martha's public persona as being the polar opposite of her true personality in actual life. In 2011, Alexis published a tell-all book, Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, which she co-authored with Jennifer Koppelman Hutt. The memoir made bombshell accusations about Alexis' childhood, particularly her mother's parenting style. -"Martha does everything better! You can't win," she wrote. "If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head." -When it came to holidays, Alexis said her mother was "not interested in being kid-friendly." -"She used to make me wrap my own presents," she recalled. "She would hand me things right before Christmas and say, 'Now wrap these but don't look inside.'" -On Halloween: "There were no costumes. There was no anything. We turned off all the lights and pretended we weren't home." -Alexis also accused her mother of being a hoarder who had "a very hands-off approach to child rearing" . - She wrote that Martha refused to buy her a bra when she hit puberty, among other things.

I remember when I was a teenager thinking Applebee's was good. Didn't even realize the place was still in business ! Such mediocracy ! Funny how some Americans never really experience fine cuisine and remain oblivious to what food should taste like throughout their entire lives. Terrible pity.

Obviously I never paid much attention to the law ...I just wanted to get my dick wet. ( plus I genuinely liked this girl ). To this day, I understood that I would have been in violation of the law. I wonder if the law as of 2023 is the same as it was in 1986. Interesting to know. Thanks @Unicorn for doing the research.

It's a label. Yes. But not a contradiction since the label is meant to encompass the entire category. So, it's the difference between the A, B or C editions of an encyclopedia and the entire collection of books. ( Yes, I'm that old, that I remember when encyclopedias were books)

I have never met Kiddo...but I have observed that the guy has CONSISTENTLY received rave reviews from a wide variety of gentlemen. So there is definitely a big degree of either professionalism or a professionalism borne of kindness. A combination that needs to be noted as a counter argument to the pessimism that was introduced to this conversation thread. NOT everything is about money. Certainly some providers are genuinely good people with a strong conviction of empathy toward lonely gentlemen who are reaching out for companionship, even if its for an hour or two.

Who knew you were such a poet.

Might seem like a contradiction but in defense of bisexuals, we use the term to mean we haven't "picked a side". It's a label that means we reject the usual labels.

Considering Martha had more wrinkles at 50 than she does at 80, I'm gonna call *bullshit* on that statement.

There were quite a few teachers in my years at High School, who were sleeping with students. Both gay ( women and men ) and heterosexual ( both women and men ). At the time, I only knew about a few ( my cousin at 16 sleeping with a 30 year old English teacher and one of my gay friends at 17 sleeping with a 26 year old English teacher. ) Over the years, we all discovered that no less than EIGHT of our classmates were sleeping with teachers. Two ended up marrying them ! And this was Central PA, deep in Pennsylvania Dutch ( Deitsch ) country. With deeply religious families populating most of the town. Even in the 1970s the place felt more like the 1950s. But by the 1980's many of my classmates were extremely sexually active.

Yup. I know that. Yet I have no regret and no sense that I was "raped". I was the happiest teenager in the world to have started out my sex life with someone older and more experienced. I went on in the same manner when I started exploring homosexuality with someone who was 40 when I was 20. Also, a very positive experience for me, leaving me with absolutely no regret, only many fond memories. I always felt this 2 year rule was an archaic remnant of the puritanical 1950s. Maybe I'm wrong. But in my case, I feel greatly blessed to have had both experiences with these people.

Nor should they be. When I was a freshman I was dating a senior when so I was 15 / she was 18 . After she graduated and she turned 19 I was still 15 for a few months so I supposed by today's standards, I was a victim of rape, simply because I was dating someone older.

Unfortunately "over-protective" is the default setting for parents today. I remember when my kids were little and I would take them to the local park, women would try and help my daughter get off the monkey bars for fear she might fall off. EVERY time we would go ! My daughter had gymnastics classes from an early age, and was quite confident in her ability. The park had rubber cushions under the monkey bars. So there was little risk of her falling and actually injuring herself. Yet these women were convinced that this child had be abandoned by her parent(s) and was running wild and dangerously. ( I was sitting mere feet away). Of course they had no concern for her twin brother who was joining her. The assumption that a little girl couldn't possibly survive on a monkey bar five feet up was beyond ridiculous, yet multiple women were indignant that I would allow such a thing to happen. ( My daughter never fell once in all the years we went to that park ). Women destroy their children's confidence and independence today. They will tell their child it's ok that some people are homosexuals, but God forbid you should be allowed to be alone in their company. ☹️

Curious why any Lutheran would WANT to convert to Roman Catholicism since we view the Roman order as a bastardization of Christianity. Curious if they also must promise their inheritance to Rome ?

WAAAGH That book title is so much better.( Or at least more accurate.)

Exactly. What I can't seem to find in the data that's available online is statistics about how many otherwise-seemingly-heterosexual men have been accused of molesting boys. I would assume this is a category, since as you stated pedophilia and sexual identity are different.

I was curious because I'd never even thought about the subject before this conversation thread. I can tell you I came across a few articles that made the same claim. That the incidents are "equal". But this claim runs into the same problem. If the incidents of boys molested by men and girls molested by men are "equal" that does mean a higher PERCENTAGE of homosexuals are guilty when you factor in that the population of gay men is far less than heterosexual men. ( Which they are not mentioning) and therefore distorting their conclusions. I can only guess these articles are written specifically to dispell the stereotype by deliberately misinterpreting the numbers. Unemployment does the same. Numbers are always quoted as number of people who are actively collecting unemployment insurance instead of including the number of people who are unemployed long past their insurance runs out. Makes for a better statistic. As with all data you need to compare apples to apples and not be tricked into an incomplete comparisons to make a point .

I know that's what you said. So I looked it up myself The numbers don't agree with you.

Just checked out 7.0 ( I've been avoiding it ). A little difficult to navigate. Reminds me of driving along thousands of billboards and trying to figure out where the actual road signs are. One thing I found curious is there's a section of filters with colored stars you can select..but with no explanation of what the different colors represent. Anyone else see this new feature ? Any idea what it does ?

I'm horny 24/7 . So I wouldn't know. 😂

You're right about equal amounts of young girls and young boys reporting inappropriate sexual behavior from adults. Both about 25%. But you can't say that's equal when only 10-15% of the general population are gay. 85% of the population committing 25% of the crime vs 15% of the population committing the other 25% is a VERY different thing. When you do the math the statistic actually shows a MUCH higher likelihood of gay men to engage in inappropriate sexual activity with underage boys. I'm going to asssume that everyone who's claiming it to be "equal" is also forgetting to do the math. But as @marylander1940 pointed out these incidents could be conducted by bisexual or homosexual men. There doesn't seem to be any clear statistics about how many of the men who abused boys were homosexual v.s. bisexual. ( Or even how many of the girls).

Thats Max Ehrich. Soap Opera/ TV and movie star. Probably can afford his own gas. But it is always tempting to offer to help a cute boy in need. 😉

Was a nice looking guy ( before the lumberjack beard ).

So if that's true it would be 90% heterosexual and 10 - 15% homosexual. In line with the population of gay men. Not 25%