15-01-2022, 07:01 AM
There is a danger in recalling past experiences in that they are now shaded by later knowledge. It is that apple and Eve thing, a loss of innocence. What we do at one time for reasons that obviously we find acceptable can be completely turned around when spotlit by a different kind of a glare.
Soldiers for instance often come to seriously regret and are even later traumatised by recalling what they did under battle conditions. Teenagers do things while their brains are still incompletely formed that are totally acceptable to themselves at the time, but have consequences out of all propportion to the original acts. They steal cars. They all pile in with their mates, they race each other. They kill themselves and others.
Maybe it is because of our ridiculous ideas about sex, particularly other people having sex, that lets us think a seventeen year old girl fucking a forty year old male is an anathema. Especially if the power balance is seriously out, by way of money, or status, or whatever. And yet teenage girls will always find their sexuality drives them to find partners, and forty year old males will always lust after smooth skinned long limbed teenage girls. That is after all, why we are so beautiful at that age, and so new, so innocent, so untouched. It's biology.
And it only becomes wrong when overlaid by our invented morality that requires sin and redemption to be served up alongside pleasure.
Epstein and his mates were buying sex from very beautiful young women. They were addicted to pleasure and had the money, power, and lifestyle to indulge themselves. Their women shared in the money, power, and lifestyle and some of them were canny enough to have a role in maintaining it because it was in their interests to do so. Seduction comes in many forms and all of us, if we are honest, have felt its power at some point in our lives.
It isn't perversion, but it is dangerous, like any other obsessive drive that demands satisfaction. And like those other drives once satisfied it fades and the cold hard facts can change it from red hot into something tawdry and tattered. And we do the walk of shame, especially if there is an audience.
And don't get me started on the audience...
Just my opinion.
Soldiers for instance often come to seriously regret and are even later traumatised by recalling what they did under battle conditions. Teenagers do things while their brains are still incompletely formed that are totally acceptable to themselves at the time, but have consequences out of all propportion to the original acts. They steal cars. They all pile in with their mates, they race each other. They kill themselves and others.
Maybe it is because of our ridiculous ideas about sex, particularly other people having sex, that lets us think a seventeen year old girl fucking a forty year old male is an anathema. Especially if the power balance is seriously out, by way of money, or status, or whatever. And yet teenage girls will always find their sexuality drives them to find partners, and forty year old males will always lust after smooth skinned long limbed teenage girls. That is after all, why we are so beautiful at that age, and so new, so innocent, so untouched. It's biology.
And it only becomes wrong when overlaid by our invented morality that requires sin and redemption to be served up alongside pleasure.
Epstein and his mates were buying sex from very beautiful young women. They were addicted to pleasure and had the money, power, and lifestyle to indulge themselves. Their women shared in the money, power, and lifestyle and some of them were canny enough to have a role in maintaining it because it was in their interests to do so. Seduction comes in many forms and all of us, if we are honest, have felt its power at some point in our lives.
It isn't perversion, but it is dangerous, like any other obsessive drive that demands satisfaction. And like those other drives once satisfied it fades and the cold hard facts can change it from red hot into something tawdry and tattered. And we do the walk of shame, especially if there is an audience.
And don't get me started on the audience...
Just my opinion.