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Topic History of: Interesting theory from top barrister
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honey!oh sugar sugar.	Eric Toussaint wrote: The percentage of adults that engage in these activities with teenagers is very small, though to read the media, you'd think that it was much higher - especially inside the entertainment business. Definitely a very small percentage; I'd say possibly less than 4%. Though if you are this way inclined yourself, and many of your friends are, you'll probably think that everyone's like it. I think it is "normal" to be attracted to youth, otherwise we would have face creams that create wrinkles and lead weights attached to our breasts to make them droop! but it is a big leap from admiring someone to exploiting them. (or what we used to call "making a fool of himself with a young boy/girl")
Eric Toussaint	The percentage of adults that engage in these activities with teenagers is very small, though to read the media, you'd think that it was much higher - especially inside the entertainment business. Definitely a very small percentage; I'd say possibly less than 4%. Though if you are this way inclined yourself, and many of your friends are, you'll probably think that everyone's like it.
JK2006	Yet oddly human nature seems to change very little.
Eric Toussaint	The age of consent was set at 12 in the year 1275. The exact wording was, "It shall be deemed illegal to ravage a maiden who is not of age" - the implication being, that if she was 13 or older, ravaging was acceptable. Interestingly, the Welsh had no equivalent before legal union with England in 1536, but they could impose a fine on a discretionary basis for "taking a girl's maidenhood". So they could get away with rape by paying a fine - how screwed up is that? So you can see how our society has changed psychologically over the centuries from treating females as men's playthings to fully respecting their right to be treated properly.
JK2006	The papers generally assume that readers will buy a copy with a glamorous girl on the front. They don't realise times have changed.