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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on the 2nd episode and the abuse is sickening. But the age of some of these women was 17, 18. I knew exactly what I was doing at 15 and 16.  Maybe I didn’t understand the consequences of my actions, but I knew what my body was capable of and what I could elicit from adult married men.  Wtf is wrong with me that I can’t help but think they allowed these things because they wanted something from him. They were old enough to know better.  Am I a sicko too?[/quote]

Yes, you are, and you are also despicable for saying children allowed a man to rape them. Hopefully you don't have children of your own. [/quote]

+1. Teenagers have hormones that make them sexual, but they are not mature enough to handle a grown man. And children, especially kids from rough upbringings, crave positive adult attention. You take a girl from a difficult home environment and suggest to her that sex can make her get adult male attention (which is severely lacking in many poor homes, which tend to be headed by a single parent) and they will do it. You don't have any concept of the voids created by difficult childhoods-- or you wouldn't be saying it. It's like saying a starving prostitute is doing it because she *wants* to. It is exploitation of our most vulnerable population and your lack of empathy is sick, sick, sick. Please reflect on why it is wrong to exploit vulnerable teen girls. [/quote]

I'm the sicko... thank you for pointing out and making me think this through.  Sometimes I think my own maturity was stunted, since I got married and had a child myself at age 16.  (We've been married 30+ years and have a healthy and happy 3 kids.)  I tend to imagine everyone's situation into my own experience - we intentionally planned the pregnancy because "we were so in love: and he was leaving for the military.  Even though I realize how hard things would be, or the sacrifices we both made, I knew what I was doing and that it would have consequences.  (Only a 5 year age gap between us, though I was probably more mature than he was.)  But I didn't consider he was preying on girls with voids, as you state.  While my childhood was far from perfect, I wasn't running from anything.  I also don't lack compassion or empathy, though.[/quote]

oops, meant to say I DID NOT realize or foresee how hard the future would be compared to growing up, going to college, etc.... [/quote]

A 21 year old man should not be messing around with a 16 year old child. It is predatory, and you definitely lack empathy. You are blaming children, saying they allowed him to rape them. You are delusional![/quote]

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