My experiences as a flyin’ minor are from the 80's and 90's, so I can’t speak to contemporary protocols in our post 9/11 world of heightened airport security.

Mr Horseasaur often comments on things being thrown out like yesterday’s jam. It’s an undying love in our household.

I work for the Episcopal church and I actually just had my anti-child molestation training today. There are three different types of child molesters, which is, I believe, why the statistics are skewed. The vast majority of child molesters are situational offenders (i.e. they’re in a bad place in life and are looking…

I think you’re bringing up an interesting and important point. To me, it doesn’t seem right to say that one is absolutely, always worse than the other. I suppose you could ask someone who had been both beaten and raped which they found more traumatizing, but even then you’d only be hearing one person’s experience and…

Conflating rape recidivism rates with pedophile/ephebophile rates is an error.

No, they should have been in the sights of the airline staff at all times. This was definitely their fuck up.

Because these parents aren’t ALREADY blaming themselves for something that is absolutely not their fault, this Fogle guy decides to sue them. AWESOME. I hope he loses and then has to turn around and give them more money.

Likewise, adolescents and young adults who’ve committed sexual offenses are rarely included in these statistics because their records are often expunged or they are offered deals that result in no conviction and no admission, despite earlier confessions to police.

That’s true—recidivism of any sort amongst most convicted sexual offenders is low—but it doesn’t actually support what you’re implying. Unlike other violent crime, most sexual assaults, sexual battery, molestation, and rape never make it to court to begin with, and convictions are low. Add to that reporting of these…

Yes, that’s true, but the sex offender list seems somewhat problematic because it includes many offenders that really shouldn’t be on there and are branded for life nevertheless (the sex crimes that can land you on there run the gamut from fairly innocuous to horrific). It’s so vast that I’m not sure it does much good…

That’s a good theory. The babysitter who molested me was a white-haired legit old man that my parents met at church though, and I wasn’t the first (or last) kid he targeted. I read the piece you mentioned and thought the man he profiled was brave and a testament to the idea that some attractions may be largely beyond…

Yeah except that article doesn't discuss people like Fogle. You can't cure someone who is attracted to children and has offended as many times as Fogle has. He's obviously not taking any responsibility for his actions.

Interesting. I find that so hard to believe, honestly. If those numbers are based on self-reported behavior, are they truly accurate? I say that as someone who experienced sexual abuse as a child. Do those urges really just disappear or is the threat of prison enough to keep them on the straight and narrow? I do…

No, not a dumb kid, but a kid with emotional issues that made her vulnerable to predators. That’s what he’s suing them for. Doubtful Jared could craft this strategy without an equally repugnant lawyer at his side.

No. FFS.

Stop.

The attorney gets paid either way.

absolutely not

Prison is for rehabilitation, not for retribution.

If anyone did deserve it, it would be him... But if we’re going to say that women prisoners being assaulted is wrong, I think we have to say the same about prisoners of all sexes and genders.