bradleeM: Balls et al.,

A point made by the two gramps..........is that Society is selective in its condemnation of adult/child sex.......when it involves two males the outrage is vehement and violent...................when it involves female/male it is not.

What is often found in cases of abuse is that there is no animosity toward the older of the participants by the younger when it involves participants in puberty and under.

I do not condone sex between adults and minors, under no circumstances...............but one must realize that there are cases such as that described above. Whether we want to believe it or not, human beings are sexual beings at any age. But, the adult is expected and must behave in an adult manner and not encourage or take advantage of a young person who exhibits early sexual urges.

Society must have standards of behavior, how it disburses punishment for offenders is what needs to be addressed. Everyone in every society is taught sexual behavior by an older person. Societies throughout the world are still confused as to what age this behavior should be legal.

For any of us to condemn anyone for anything shows a double standard on each of our parts. For none of us is exempt from temptations and we all have a variety of thresholds at which those temptations are crossed.

This is a discussion board and people are going to discuss their experiences on this board. Some will be liked by some of us, some will not be liked, voice your opinion , but why condemn someone for something that happened 75 years ago that had a positive effect on the younger participant. I do not agree with that and I am surprised at the result, but then, life is full of surprises whether we agree with them or not.