In Reply to: Excuse me Terry ..a paedophile is a posted by Sal on Thursday, 6. January 2005 at 05:54 Bali Time:
sorry for any offence, it was as you say wallowing in a schoolboy fantasy. The odd thing is however that, when the Melbourne lady drew a zero gaol term, something like 70% of respondents to an Age Newspaper poll agreed with the judge. This was of course only weeks after a male tennis coach got several years for a superficially similar offense; a sentence seemingly widely approved.
As you know The Age readership is very progressive, leftish, pro feminist and so on. Still and all a significant chunk of the community appears to not see moral equivalence in the actions of a male and a female in this regard.
On a related note I have been told, and see anecdotal evidence, that the high end toy boy rental market in Bali is currently thriving. There are luxury packages on offer for well heeled ladies and promotional material such as expensive brochures, catalogues, AV presentation kits etc. I know the world is changing but an old fuddy duddy like me finds more to frown about with this state of affairs than lady teachers falling victim to lecherous schoolboys.
Nonetheless on the central theme of this thread ...male predator paedophiles, we are all still in complete agreement and share an absolute revulsion of them. Thank goodness that isn't changing.