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Holly writes
>On Mar 24, 4:37 am, Mike_B wrote:
>> In message
>> <80bbf0f5-527b-47f6-9f2c-2e8afb2ff...@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>> Holly writes
>>
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>> >On Mar 22, 3:47 am, Mike_B wrote:
>> >> In message
>> >> ,
>> >> Holly writes
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>> >> >On Mar 20, 10:39 am, Mike_B wrote:
>> >> >> In message
>> >> >> <8e0240bb-4f7f-468f-9ebf-081ab04db...@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>> >> >> "MAOgil...@indaal.co.uk" writes
>>
>> >> >> >On 19 Mar, 08:30, Gary B wrote:
>> >> >> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
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>> >> >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C_Clarke
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>> >> >> >> Yes! Another child molster is dead :-)))))
>>
>> >> >> >There's a world of difference between molesting children and having
>> >> >> >. with nubile boys who happen to be below the age of British
>> >> >> >consent. Here on the island we've always taken the view that
>> >> >> >everything that doesn't belong to the Laird is fair game.
>>
>> >> >> It seems that Brits are generally so certain that their own assessment
>> >> >> of an appropriate age of consent is the only possible correct one, that
>> >> >> any country having a lower age of consent is therefore populated by a
>> >> >> bunch of child molesting perverts. What I don't understand is why we
>> >> >> would allow countries full of perverted child molesters such as France
>> >> >> (15) or Spain (13) to be members of the EU!
>>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Mike_B
>>
>> >> >No ... Not France.
>>
>> >> Sorry, I have no idea what that meant.
>>
>> >> --
>> >It means, I do not wish that to apply to France.
>>
>> I see. Then you would have to persuade France to raise their age of
>> consent then. As it stands, it is 15 and as everyone in this country
>> knows, if you sleep with a 15 year old you must be a pervert and should
>> be locked away.
>>
>> I also wonder whether it works the other way around. So if someone from
>> say Egypt (18) or Tunisia (20) comes to the UK and sleeps with a 16 year
>> old, does that make them a pervert even though they have done nothing
>> that is illegal here?
>> --
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>
>Dear MIke,
>
>I have copied for you these definitions. I hope they help.
>
>pervert (v.)
>c.1300 (trans.), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief
>to a false or erroneous one," from O.Fr. pervertir, from L. pervertere
>"corrupt, turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" + vertere
>"to turn" (see versus). The noun is 1661, from the verb. Replaced
>native froward, which embodies the same image. The noun is attested
>from 1661, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as
>true, apostate;" psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of
>the .ual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis),
>originally esp. of homo.uals. Perv, short for .ual pervert (n.),
>is first recorded 1944.
>perverse
>c.1369, "wicked," from O.Fr. pervers, from L. perversus "turned away
>(from what is right), contrary, askew," pp. of pervertere "to
>corrupt" (see pervert). The L. word is glossed in O.E. by forcerred,
>from p.p. of forcyrran "to avoid," from cierran "to turn, return."
>Meaning "wrong, not in accord with what is accepted" is from c.1568;
>sense of "obstinate, stubborn" is from 1579. It keeps the non-.ual
>senses of pervert (v.) and allows the psychological ones to go with
>perverted.
>
>"Perversions are defined as unnatural acts, acts contrary to nature,
>bestial, abominable, and detestable. Such laws are interpretable only
>in accordance with the ancient tradition of the English common law
>which ... is committed to the doctrine that no .ual activity is
>justifiable unless its objective is procreation." [A.C. Kinsey,
>et.al., ".ual Behavior in the Human Male," 1948]
>
>
>Best wishes,
>Holly
Thanks Holly. So we are all perverts if we have . without intending
procreation. That's really helpful I'm sure.
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Mike_B |