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I'm inspired to address society's glorious hypocrisy on this topic, inspired by the imprisonment of a 73 year old Sunday school teacher today. Now by all accounts, this old fellow was in almost every way a perfect neighbor, friend and all around nice guy for many decades, including time as a volunteer firefighter. Until he ran afoul of our society's twisted cultural messages regarding teenage girls. We all know what society says about teenage girls. It's absolutely brim full of every possible sexual message, inference, insinuation, and sly innuendo. Teenage girls themselves are taught their value is in their hotness and sexuality, and this message has percolated downward to the point thirteen year olds dress in hot pants, thongs, push-up bras and skin tight tops. I had to look up a documentary I'd caught parts of on the CBC called Sext Up Kids. It's available on their web site. And it delves into the cultural messages teenage girls get, which basically turns them into little porn stars, and sets their self worth by how much boys/men want to have sex with them. So they dress the part, and act the part, and society paints them that way. Oral sex isn't really even sex! Sex between friends is fine! And anal sex is the new oral! If you like a boy, well, send him a naked picture of yourself! That's the culture of young girls today. But then we have that other side to society's cultural view of young girls. That's that any man over the age of 18 who even thinks, even momentarily, about any girl under 18 in any way that is even casually related to lust or sexual appreciation is a filthy pervert society ought to lock up if not castrate. Such men are dispicable, disgusting, beyond redemption... ?? You know, for most of our history as a species, girls were married off right after puberty. As soon as they could be bred, they were wed. Going back before there even WERE weddings, no young girl of fourteen was left to molder without a mate. That wasn't the way we as a species operated. I'd even go so far as to say it's hard-wired into men that once a female has a certain physical shape they ought to be pursuing her for breeding purposes. Of course, we as a society have grown considerably more sophisticated over the years. We shelter young people much longer, and we no longer marry off teenage girls nor want grown men pursuing them in any way. And yet, we as a society turn them into porn stars, sexualizing them in every aspect of our culture. And lo betide any poor fool who actually gets his messages mixed and lets his little head do the thinking for him! Now I'm not making excuses for this old fool and his groping ways. But the funny thing is that a few decades ago he'd have been given a stern talking to from the police and that would have been that. It would be unlikely he would ever try to grab anyone's butt or chest again. And that was before we started sexualizing young girls! Now, it's no mercy. Off to prison with him, the disgusting pervert! There's something seriously wigged out about these kind of mixed messages. On the one hand it tells men that teenage girls are the epitome of sexuality and lust and attractiveness, and on the other slaps them into prison the moment they fall for the bait. No mercy, no second chance, no matter how low risk they are or what their previous record was. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Crown+suggests+three+years+Sunday+school+teacher+assaulted/8311993/story.html