--- Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
From:
wikien-l-bounces(a)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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