Weird piece by David Klinghoffer in National Review. He blurts out the possibility that under-age boys who have sex with their female teachers probably don’t suffer much harm: “No indications yet as to whether these boys are getting their work done or bugging people any more than they might otherwise. Actually I’m not too worried about the minors themselves, who will enjoy dining out on hot-for-teacher stories with their buddies for years to come.” Now, isn’t this casual acceptance of pedophilia exactly what conservatives like Mary Eberstadt have been screaming from the rooftops about? In the Weekly Standard a few months ago, she laid most of the blame for an alleged outbreak of ‘pedophilia chic’ on a handful of passages she gleaned from a few obscure gay literary journals. But here’s a man from a conservative Jewish background, writing in National Review Online, saying essentially the same thing as the American Psychological Association study Dr Laura went bats over a couple of years back. Let’s see what kind of reaction there is to this piece. Then we’ll see if what’s really behind the campaign is concern for kids or simply a useful tool to further demonize gays. Specifically, Eberstadt and the Weekly Standard surely have to come out and condemn this piece. Or their credibility on this matter will be over.
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