I feel a large part of it could be the fact that most men I have known, in ANY capacity, still feel like once they have screwed you, you are “theirs”. Regardless of up-front discussion, how it came about, who you are to them, the fact that they have a penis means you have been somehow “claimed”. This kind of shit…

It’s hyperbolic and definitely comes from a place of anger and frustration over our current political climate, but I don’t think it “takes skill” to feel as I do. More like exasperation—over the apathy and disinterest in the issue of equal rights for women. Apathy from men I care about and who I think care about me…

I’m also a little bewildered by people saying these girls tried to kill him? They tied his hands behind his back and tied his leg to a chair. THEN he face planted.

Yeah, as a dude I have really little sympathy for this guy. I’m already skeeved out by girls that young and I’m 27. You gotta have no shame at all to think, hey, I’m just going to fuck the kind of girl who meets 84 year old men on dating sites, and not think at all about why she’d be there. He’s a creep and deserves…

They look about 12. And this old fuck took them to a nice restaurant and gave them booze? I can’t work out why nobody watching this did a single thing?

This is a tough one for me. I’m finding it very hard not to think ‘GOOD’... but also know that’s kinda wrong and he’s just an old man.

Came here to say exactly this! There are professional people that will blow old ass dudes for money and if they still take the route of specifically targeting young, poor, and vulnerable women, they should not be surprised when those women see their old asses as marks.

Five years is a way too harsh sentence. Sentencing is getting out of control. They were on the brink and teetered off the edge once and probably out of ignorance - rich people have servants, they probably figured he would be rescued in a half hour - and one year in jail would be enough punishment and wake up call but…

Exactly. It was wrong to rob him, but the girl said she decided to leave because he asked her to do things she didn’t want to do. I have no difficulty believing that he is a disgusting old perv.

i’m team shania and shalaine. why? this can’t be the first time that this sexual deviant has tried to “ have sex with “ rape children (they were 17 when this happened). what normal person wants to have anything sexual to do with people young enough to be their grandkids at least three times over?

But he’s a grown ass man, and they’re children. He was/is a vulnerable and lonely old man, but desperate, nah. It’s not like he wanted to hang out with them and be bffs. He wanted to fuck them. He put himself in that situation because he wanted to fuck a poor 17 year old girl. This is not the same as a nice old man…

Man, the world would be a lot nicer without all the dirty old men in it.

You’re right! He managed to skirt the legal definitions of both consent and prostitution.

No one who is on a website called SeekingArrangement.com is being conned out of their money. They are signing up to exchange it for sex and attention. Takes two, etc.

From NYT:

What’s to wonder though? They met on Seeking Arrangement. You think he’s looking for underage twins to do his taxes?

Seriously - it would have been way better for everybody if he just paid for a professional from the very beginning rather than thinking he could get into some kind of “relationship” with someone over SIXTY FIVE years younger than him.

Before we get too sympathetic to the old man, let’s remember that he was trolling for teenagers on an site that basically promises prostitution.

Shania reportedly met the man, Paul Aronson, through SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site “where beautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships.”

So, wait — a rapey old man takes two underage sisters out on a date that’s supposed to lead to a “mutually beneficial relationship” (read: they suck his dick), they rob him (obviously traumatic and terrible), but there’s no consequences for this man? Couldn’t the authorities have said, “Wow — this is terrible all…