Not agreed...aaron wrote:yep.marurun wrote:Any kind of rape, statutory or otherwise, is as much, if not more, about power than about sex. It's a way of demonstrating control over someone. Chemical castration may work for some people, especially those who deal in child porn, but it's unlikely to help many of those who actually sexually abuse children.
their is a difference between pedophilia, paraphilia, and statutory rape.
Paraphilia is a sexual preference arousing from assumed mental disorder.
Pedophilia is a form of paraphilia, sex with small children... medically defined as pre-pubescent. And yes a large majority are linked to a power complex.
statutory rape is the law that defines having sex with a person who is legally considered incapable of making the choice of consent. Having sex with the mentally challenged, a minor, etc. The condission of the minor being defined merely by local laws. A person might as well be attracted to an adolescent for reasons on related to 'power'.
The distinction of a minor is a very difficult process to consider. This can be easily seen due to the fact that several different communities, governments, and nations have completely different assumptions about the age at which some one can 'make decissions for themselves'. Just consider the difference in the legal age to marry from state to state here in the United States.
For instance, by legal definition a 26 year old man dating a 16 year old girl is considered statutory rape in most states. But an 58 year old man dating a 21 year old woman is not. A 16 year old girl can easily be just as physically mature as a 21 year old girl, and from my own experience, just as mentally capable. And we've made a clear distinction of age difference here as well. This could also replace the genders... women usually called "cougars" are socially accepted to an extend. Of whom here in Palm Beach county are seen a lot with boys as young as 18. How do you draw this line of a 17 year old and an 18 year old sleeping with a 40 year old?
Which also in the end doesn't have a lot to do with power. I don't think this 'cougar' is sleeping with young men for power, but because they are trophies... or are lively and fun... vice versa for older men as well. And as the age gap shrink to say a 24 year old and 16 year old... their cliques, culture, and interests are so similar there is hardly a distinction between the two.
To lump statutory rape in with pedophilia is a misnomer...
pedophilia is statutory rape, statutory rape may not be pedophilia.
Also, it is hard to make the assumption that child molestation is merely about power. First off studies about pedophilia aren't common and very little is known about the problem. But what can be said about the problem is that it changes erradictly from patient to patient.
Some cases show it is a battle for servitude or cohercment... i.e. 'power'
but some cases elude to mere surrogate sexual partners, due to the lack of mates more in their peer range
and yet even more cases show that the patient considers the age group they are attracted to be their mental peer.
And there are also the group of sadists... which can be labeled under 'power' for some... but actually has a much more unique definition.
Now keep in mind the following is not a justification for the actions done by these people. But more of an interpretation for why. People just don't do things for no reason, especially when they most likely know it is against the law.
But, a lot of people place certain beliefs well before the law.
For instance religious faith sometimes doesn't make a clear distinction if it is immoral to wed a 13 year old.
The mentally ill can not make clear choices of their own at times. Several of these people might even consider themselves to be young children unfit for sexual relations with adults. Yet still contain the same sexual desires.
To merely generalize this as one clear mental choice for power, well is kind of ignorant.
Though I must repeat, this does not make it forgiving and their are several groups of people do this for pure torturing purposes. The old school part of me says "string them up by their testicles and let them rot"... but there is another side of me that rationalizes this. That rationality is that if these people don't have the right to live, who says you have the right to live, because somewhere, some time, the choices you make on a daily basis can be easily misconstrued as amoral and deviant.
So let's just sling all ourselves up. Or better known as leaving us all 'blind'.
