There’s an epidemic breaking out! Take this from the New York Observer:
Listen up, fellows: Rich, bored teenage girls in New York City are on the prowl for twentysomething (and in some cases, thirtysomething) men. And this time, they’re not just arming themselves with fake ID’s. Young women barely past puberty-and before, ahem, the age of consent-are sashaying onto the Internet, researching adult life, and constructing elaborate alter egos designed to dupe men all too willing to believe their lies.
Consider Alexis. By 14, she was fed up with the dopey guys in her age group. This 5-foot-9 private-school student and class treasurer likes them older-much older.
At first, Alexis employed a simple alias: She would tell the older men she met that she was a junior majoring in communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Everyone bought the lie. It went well until a 24-year-old man asked her out, and mentioned that he, too, went to U. Penn.
“I, like, totally bugged out,” Alexis said.
Hilarious, huh? Of course, there is an honest and coherent philosophy behind the social conservative blind eye to straight pedophilia and obsession with gay pedophilia. An email expresses it simply:
There is a difference too, according to biblical Christian principles. A boy seduced by an older woman is sinning, but a boy seduced by a man is seduced contrary to nature. The B-W relationship is a model of what he should end up doing (having sex inside of a relationship of sexual complementarity in marriage), a B-M relationship is not what he ever should be doing.
I disagree with this strongly. But don’t you think that if this really is the belief of Eberstadt et al, they should simply say so and make their hostility to homosexuality as such more explicit, instead of attacking it under the veil of being opposed to child abuse?
The Dish 