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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a problem with the way the article was written.  I know these things happen and I do understand, but the journalist wrote it in such a way as to normalize and glamorize what are essentially pedophile relationships. He starts off the article in a breathy way, calling it the greatest love story ever, he talks about how irresistible it was to be in front of this beautiful 16-year-old, it's incredibly creepy and it shows how our culture sexualizes female children in particular, and makes it seem both sexy and OK for middle-aged men to leer at them, target them, and have sex with them. The article not only justified what happened, but made it seem glamorous.

I'm definitely not the only person thinking this, there are a lot of people out there who were appalled by the article.  I am an open minded person, and as a teen girl I had many crushes on older men, but for some reason this article gave me really bad feelings.  I mean do we want a culture where girls are married off at puberty to men in their 40s and 50s?[/quote]

That’s the Atlantic for you. Really annoying writing style. [/quote]

Except that the article is in Vanity Fair.[/quote]

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