Re: The Miranda Center: Breaking Crimes One Person At A Time
- From: "hizbabykakes" <carolcares4u@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jul 2006 11:06:14 -0700
Aisling Willow Grey wrote:
(in article <da3f3$44bcd406$8c63252e$8618@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:28:55 -0400, Akh Ba Ka wrote
Josh Hutcherson wrote:
spoiler for Monday's eppy:"safe". How would it be any better if he were attracted to older girls?
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I hate to agree w/ Ryan, but WHAT IF Annie's found the perfect way to
steal a child? Okay, this guy's another Brooke's boyfriend Jim perv,
but should Erin really be that naive? I know that's a naturally loaded
question given the purpose of TMC, but unscrupulous women exist. And
since when has TMC been a haven for law breakers? If this is the way
they operate, I'll pass and send my annual donation to WWF (World
Wildlife Foundation). I *don't* like how the writers are playing it
safe by making this pervert Terry a lover-of-young-girls, but never
stating his AOA (age of attraction). 6 or 7, or are we talking Brooke's
Faux-Laura 16yo?
AMC tried to walk that line with Dani and Garret and I didn't like it
then. Underage is underage, and in Lily's case she's particularly
"underaged" and probably won't get any older. That might be the jackpot
for Terry: adult body, permanent child mind. <<
Well, I hope we get some of the newsgroup psychologists to weigh in on this,
because I'm not sure that Lily's childlike mind would be enough to attract
him to her. Someone who has sex with children has a particular proclivity,
and while it _is_ about power and predation (and it's easy to have power over
someone with a childlike mind, even if they have an adult body), it's also
about a sexual attraction to certain childlike physical characteristics.
From a perspective of sexual maturity, Lily is very clearly an _adult_.
So I think they're mixing their metaphors here, and making Terry an
all-purpose dirtbag, which I don't think is the way it actually works most of
the time in the real world of predator psychology.
The thing I don't like about it is the assumption that he would go afterhis own daughter. Far be it from me to defend a pervert but I think even
they have must have lines they don't cross. Perhaps incest isn't his thing.<<
See, again, a mixing of the metaphors. I think that sex with young children
is one kind of perversion, while incest is another. I'm not sure that the
two are generally found in the same person, although obviously it wouldn't be
impossible. But I think that part of the pathology with a sexual predator of
children is the idea that he's choosing safe targets - children who won't
talk, partners who won't be found out. And you'd think that your _own_
child, even though you have power over them like over no other child, would
be the _least_ safe choice, because of all the opportunity for someone else
in your home to fall all over your evidence, or catch you in the act.
I'm dying for someone who has actual experience in this field of psychology
to pop in and let us know how likely or unlikely all this is!
Aisling
FAC Will Cortlandt
Jewelled Frango 2001
Trust me, Aisling, it happens- both young women and own daughter.
I know of this in a family. Though I'm sure it's not always this way.
Carol B.
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