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Timmy. I think the moral indignation of some of those who posted in response to your video could indeed be similar to the homosexual homophobes. Those that pillory homosexuality or even sexuality generally then are found out to be involved in some sex scandal themselves.

I don't claim to know the thoughts of any of the posters, nor their character. But perhaps it's more that people were scared of their own reactions to the videos. It may be a hypocrisy that people on a website filled with stories of gay teen sex are offended by topless teens riding bikes. But perhaps it's a hypocrisy borne out of fear and even a little self-loathing.

Let's face it, I think the majority of people here probably find teen males attractive. That's why the stories are appealing- that's why we're here and not another gay site. But due to the social condemnation of the paedophiles and the current witch-hunt (that has nothing to do with ACTUAL child protection) I think a lot of people here may end up feeling at least a little guilty. I know I, at times, do.

I'm often arguing exceptionally controversial viewpoints and I've even challenged the notion of ANY age of consent law. But my arguments are intellectual. Emotionally I can range from feeling content with an attraction to below-age-of-consent boys from feeling that perhaps I SHOULD be burnt at the stake for even entertaining such feelings.

We need this place of safety. Even if sometimes we have knee-jerk emotional reactions. Again I'm not trying to paint everyone with the same brush- but I think some of the reactions could well be less about people looking and a video and not liking what they see and more about people looking in the mirror and not liking what they see.

It could also be that some here, because their age of attraction is low, feel it necessary to have a radical and strong division between acceptable and not-acceptable. Perhaps that strong division is the only way they separate themselves from the "evil paedos".

The way I see things, though, sexual exploitation of minors can and will always exist. Even if every person makes their children wear masks and cover their faces like Michael Jackson's children there will still be people that mentally undress them. Whether the kids on bikes are fully undressed or fully dressed, if someone finds them cute, they will still be the object of sexual fantasies. And even if all topless teens were removed from the internet- does that mean they'd also be removed from real life? And even if that were the case- would the sexual fantasies stop? I highly doubt it- especially while teens try and appear sexually enticing to each other and to people older than them.

So to me a picture or movie of kids riding bikes can never be truly sexually exploitative because there's nothing sexual going on. And if you remove a video of topless minors, maybe you should remove top-wearing minors... and from there- well maybe people should just stop having children... just to make sure the children are never harmed. It's the only effective way...


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