--- Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf
Of Philip Welch
Anyone using Wikipedia to initiate sexual
contacts through
Wikipedia
will get a very permanent ban on their person.
Cripes. And it's Valentine's Day next week, too.
I agree. I think it would be very sweet if two
Wikipedians
fell in love on a talk page. But only if they were
both above
the statutory age of consent.
Well, I dunno. Thinking back to the editor who precipitated all this, it's clear that he's big on what I'd call frivolous userboxes. He identifies as "16-ish" (in one of the few items of personal information NOT found in a userbox), and when I was 16-ish, I had very strong desires for others in that age range. I'm thinking of Joan Smith here, a 17-ish classmate whose ripening womanly attributes dominated my adolescent thoughts to a remarkable degree. If she had appeared naked and willing in bed beside me (in respose to my fervent prayers), I would not have hesitated. I would have embraced the moment.
Perhaps young scamp Joeyramoney was being serious when he declared his love for children, and he meant someone about his age, rather than what we older and wiser folk might at first imagine. Perhaps he was having a bit of a laugh at our expense.
I can understand why some O&W editors wanted to shoot him and scatter his ground up ashes into the Rhine, but I cannot condone this sort of behaviour.
Peter (Skyring)
Children, as in this case, are usually defined as those under 13. If an adult has sex with a teen between 13 and 17, it is defined as underage sex. Under 13 is, I suppose, child sex -- and that's where pedophilia comes in. If you take a look at the Wiki article about pedophilia, you will see that there are organizations out there that try to legalize pedophilia.
Direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile#Advocacy_of_pedophilia
I'm guessing that none of those people would be allowed to express their opinion on Wiki. From what I read, pedophilia is when one is "being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent children." To be sexully attracted to children is in itself not a crime. It becomes a crime when you "act" on it. Some doctors say that pedophilia should not be deemed as an illness. Many cultures included what we call today, pedophilia, such as: Greek-, Roman-, and Ottoman Empire.
I'm not condoning what that guy did (I'm not a pedophile), but if Wiki had better-defined rules, we wouldn't waste time on such debates.
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