Pedophilia (was about sexual abuse)
Diana Tashjian
I know this is a very sensitive subject but it's something I've
recently been wondering about: why is pedophilia so common? And it's
not just something recent. In history it seems there's always
references to it, also... Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
societies?
Diana Tashjian
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recently been wondering about: why is pedophilia so common? And it's
not just something recent. In history it seems there's always
references to it, also... Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
societies?
Diana Tashjian
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In a message dated 5/26/04 5:11:14 PM, dtashjian@... writes:
<< Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
societies? >>
Interesting.
Holly said she and her dad had been talking and he said to ask me something.
The question was this: If (if it's true) that long ago Britons or their
ancestors counted to twelve with fingers and hands, did they count six on one
hand, or ten and then 11 and 12?
I said I didn't think there was any possible way to know that, since most
evidence about culture in those days is linguistic evidence. (There are also
"middens" so archeologists can figure out what people ate, and there are graves
and bones and sometimes evidence of dwellings.)
Without myths or religous clues, and without linguistic evidence, I think it
must be impossible to say.
"Pedophilia" is a greek word, and they're famous/infamous/stereotyped as
being (or having once been) a society in which men had sex with boys and sheep.
(Scotland gets that later accusation/jab too.)
In British English they have the term "buggery" for butt-fucking. American
English has no such term (just the mondo-gross term I used just before this).
[A young American friend who attended English schools for a few years got in
trouble for telling a boy who was picking on her to "bug off." What was a
benign American-English term was a nasty Brit phrase.]
"Sodomy" is a non-Greek legal term, but there's no real evidence that Sodom
(the Biblical city from which that term comes) was guilty of that particular
sin. The Bible story is vague.
Sandra
<< Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
societies? >>
Interesting.
Holly said she and her dad had been talking and he said to ask me something.
The question was this: If (if it's true) that long ago Britons or their
ancestors counted to twelve with fingers and hands, did they count six on one
hand, or ten and then 11 and 12?
I said I didn't think there was any possible way to know that, since most
evidence about culture in those days is linguistic evidence. (There are also
"middens" so archeologists can figure out what people ate, and there are graves
and bones and sometimes evidence of dwellings.)
Without myths or religous clues, and without linguistic evidence, I think it
must be impossible to say.
"Pedophilia" is a greek word, and they're famous/infamous/stereotyped as
being (or having once been) a society in which men had sex with boys and sheep.
(Scotland gets that later accusation/jab too.)
In British English they have the term "buggery" for butt-fucking. American
English has no such term (just the mondo-gross term I used just before this).
[A young American friend who attended English schools for a few years got in
trouble for telling a boy who was picking on her to "bug off." What was a
benign American-English term was a nasty Brit phrase.]
"Sodomy" is a non-Greek legal term, but there's no real evidence that Sodom
(the Biblical city from which that term comes) was guilty of that particular
sin. The Bible story is vague.
Sandra
J. Stauffer
<<<< Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
our chickens yesterday.
We are in the unfortunate position of having too many roosters right now and
they fight over hens. One rooster is a different, smaller breed and he
loses out. We have two chicks that are just starting to sexually mature
(probably comparable to a 10 or 11 year old human). The little rooster
attempts to mate with the chicks, scaring them to death.
What is interesting is that the alpha rooster runs to the rescue of the
chicks but never attempts to mate with them himself.
Julie S.
> societies?>>>>It has always existed. It even happens in the animal world. I was watching
our chickens yesterday.
We are in the unfortunate position of having too many roosters right now and
they fight over hens. One rooster is a different, smaller breed and he
loses out. We have two chicks that are just starting to sexually mature
(probably comparable to a 10 or 11 year old human). The little rooster
attempts to mate with the chicks, scaring them to death.
What is interesting is that the alpha rooster runs to the rescue of the
chicks but never attempts to mate with them himself.
Julie S.
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From: "Diana Tashjian" <dtashjian@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Pedophilia (was about sexual abuse)
> I know this is a very sensitive subject but it's something I've
> recently been wondering about: why is pedophilia so common? And it's
> not just something recent. In history it seems there's always
> references to it, also... Does/did it exist in hunter/forager
> societies?
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