PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN (C)1996 Alan M. Schwartz "Freud" is German for "joy." The man was obviously an obsessive pederast denied outlets of child molestation by his religion, forever barring him from all those luscious altar boys. His diseased, pornographic diatribes suffuse Western civilization, for his contemporaries and disciples are also no doubt pederasts engaged in a cabal of perversity and sin. It's in the bible. We will fix society by putting the government in charge. Has anybody seen the Health Care Crisis or the Peace Dividend? We will fix society by putting the One True Church (pick one, any one) in charge. Do the years AD 476-980 ring a bell? What about the Inquisition, the Crusades... and those minor New World unpleasantries with the Maya and the Inca? God's volunteers are enthusiastic about cleansing away the Devil with holy fire. The world is, or certainly was, not a Judeo-Christian place. It was a lot happier for it. Patterns of behavior and conduct are wholly arbitrary. 6000+ years of documented civilizations across all Terra are ample proof that it really doesn't make much difference what you do, though it is of tremendous import what you Officially do NOT do. The street finds its own uses and prices for things. The personal guilt and sheer weight of human suffering and death visited upon humanity by the One True Church - any and all of them - are staggering. People are responsible for the conduct of their lives. Personal accountability engenders personal liability, and rapidly arrives at a condition of dynamic efficiency in the small and in the large. When the social unit becomes groups, when individual responsibilities and liabilities are subordinated to the amorphous meanderings of a committee, atrocity is born. We were only trying to do the right thing. We were only following orders. It is not my fault, THEY made me do it. Government is a ravenous 18th Century animal. It is hungry for money, power, and imposition. Pollution! Greenhouse Effect! Ozone Hole! Cancer! Human Rights! Equal Opportunity! Affirmative Action! OSHA! EPA! Decency in communications! Why is the answer always more taxes and further restrictions of personal freedom? Television is suffused with sitcoms. Why isn't there more comedy in the streets? The straw man of "protecting children" is particularly offensive. Children generally enter the world extruding through a vagina (except in the US, where doctors' busy schedules and HMO bottom lines dictate caesarean sections. Women's labor isn't cost effective). Babies generally suckle at breasts for a year or two, except in "civilized" nations. They reach puberty and are transformed into enthusiastic fucking machines, like their parents. To deny the natural order of things is to amplify a behavioral component into an obsession. Has anyone read von Sacher-Masoch? He wrote dirty books about obsession and compulsion. No Christian would tolerate dirty books about fur coats. Proper Christians don't read books, they burn them. It is an obsession and a compulsion. Even as little as 50 years ago in First World countries, the average age of puberty was in the middle to late teens. Puberty is driven by nutrition, especially female body weight. A child could make it through secondary school before his/her gonads kicked in. We knew little about nutrition and food preservation. Markets had little variety and suffered seasonal scarcities. McDonalds, the Colonel, pizza... affording rich, complete, abundant, and inexpensive nutrition unlike anything the world has ever seen - have birthed a sea change in society. High school students are now biological adults driven by reproductive urges. They are no longer malleable children. The lower classes access (with Official subsidies) the same nutritional cornucopia as the productive classes, and they know what to do with it as reproductive warriors. The average age of puberty has dropped to 12 and lower. Society has reacted in increasingly heinous fashion to deny youths their biological imperative. It's dirty. We will fix it by putting the government in charge. We will pass laws by legislation and regulation. We will erect heinous penalties for discovery, and hold public displays of outrage. The US has a greater number and fraction of its population imprisoned than any society short of Stalinist Russia. Those who prosecute and pass judgment avail themselves of the same illicit pleasures as their victims, as a right of their social status. If you want to "fix" child sexuality, impress government brothels in every school and make the little miscreants perform to specification. That will burn the sex out of them. And remember to pass special legislation empowering a bureaucracy for oversight and administration, and emplacing a tax to pay for it all.