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What are you talking about? Your first sentence seems to be gibberish and your example of a crime actually details a sentence. It's a minority crime - everyone

What are you talking about? Your first sentence seems to be gibberish and your example of a crime actually details a sentence. It's a minority crime - everyone speeds, drinks underage, steals office stationary. The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive.

Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive. Then why are there so many underage fashion models and pop stars? Why is leering at underage girls so often a theme in TV series? Just yesterday, I saw an episode of Seinfeld in which Jerry and George couldn’t stop looking at the cleavage of a 15 year old girl.[1] Also, who has seen Blue Lagoon and can honestly say they didn’t fall in love with Brooke Shields? [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697775/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697775/
randomdata 13y ago
> The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive. I hate to ask as I'm not a big fan of the meme, but I am really curious about the numbers. Do you have a source for that? 30% of the people are under 18 themselves. It would be pretty weird if they didn't find each other attractive. That doesn't leave much of a margin for what say to be true, especially when a switch doesn't magically get flipped on your 18th birthday making you instantly attractive.
- lotsofcows 13y ago
  Sorry, I'd hoped that this would be one place where people used the work paedophile sensibly. I'm talking about people being attracted to prepubescents. [edit as I failed to answer the question] Incidence of paedophilia is estimated at under 5% by this paywalled review, http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.032408.153618 http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy...
  - Samuel_Michon 13y ago
    As you were talking about crime, Randomdata and I were assuming you were referring to acts concerning persons under 18. Pedophilia is not a legal term, it’s a psychological term. It’s not a crime to be a pedophile. Rape, child abuse, etc are.

Samuel_Michon 13y ago

> The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive. Then why are there so many underage fashion models and pop stars? Why is leering at underage girls so often a theme in TV series? Just yesterday, I saw an episode of Seinfeld in which Jerry and George couldn’t stop looking at the cleavage of a 15 year old girl.[1] Also, who has seen Blue Lagoon and can honestly say they didn’t fall in love with Brooke Shields? [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697775/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697775/

randomdata 13y ago

> The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive. I hate to ask as I'm not a big fan of the meme, but I am really curious about the numbers. Do you have a source for that? 30% of the people are under 18 themselves. It would be pretty weird if they didn't find each other attractive. That doesn't leave much of a margin for what say to be true, especially when a switch doesn't magically get flipped on your 18th birthday making you instantly attractive.

lotsofcows 13y ago
Sorry, I'd hoped that this would be one place where people used the work paedophile sensibly. I'm talking about people being attracted to prepubescents. [edit as I failed to answer the question] Incidence of paedophilia is estimated at under 5% by this paywalled review, http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.032408.153618 http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy...
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  As you were talking about crime, Randomdata and I were assuming you were referring to acts concerning persons under 18. Pedophilia is not a legal term, it’s a psychological term. It’s not a crime to be a pedophile. Rape, child abuse, etc are.