This is going to be a potentially controversial and polarizing post. Most of it will be behind a cut. It will be poorly organized, because I'm at work and have real work to be doing, but it's weighing heavily on my mind, and I want to say something.
I wrote the following in a comment on another's LiveJournal:I would not let my daughter be part
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My disclosure - I removed myself from all 'scenes' beyond the rock and roll one because of the unwanted sexual attention anything else fan based brought me. Many historical based things I had interests in boiled down to either spend the evening trying to keep my self destructive moth friends from the grizzled flames, or spend the evening fending off flames of all ages that it wasn't my job to put out. (in all senses) Therefore, my impressions of things grouped and fan based tends to be negative, though I realize many of my friends have found or do find value in them.
I would have welcomed older women as mentors, but I found only procurers on my travels through those realms, and it's depressing little appears changed in the two decades since.
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Also you, yourself, stand as the possibility of appropriate relations between people of different ages.
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I recognize that, which is why I put it in the above entry.
I will put forward that she and I had been friends for four years, while we were both involved with other people, before we started going out. I didn't target her because of her youth and inexperience.
It still occasionally bothers me, despite feeling wildly lucky and happy about our marriage.
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I would basically have understood if D's parents had forbade her to date me or told me to get my damn hands off their daughter, and might well have complied.
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^ this ^
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It was not lost on me that some men, my age and older, were more interested in 16-year-olds.
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