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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We have, in the UK at present, another scandal. Young footballers were used by their coaches for the coaches' sexual fulfilment. This is unpleasant, hateful, and plain inappropriate. It is the Casting Couch of some areas of football. I doubt any sport is immune. It was suggested to me by a chap I worked with, and whose opinions I never respected, that Formula 1 Motor Racing's aspirimg drivers also made their way to teams in a similar manner. That thought I doubt. The boys are older, substantially older. However, he may have had the germ of an idea.
This post, this thread, is not here so we can universally condemn the abuse of children. If we can get the condemnation out of the way, I condemn it, and condemn it on your behalves too. It is a disgraceful practice akin to blackmail when the child is after advancement in an area of interest to them, and is inexcusable in any event for a member of a civilised society to abuse a child.
What I wanted to discuss instead is where youth organisations would be without those who genuinely love children, and who can keep their hands off them. The keeping of their hands off them is important. I see very little wrong with window-shopping. Touching is a totally different matter.
Today we are prurient. We insist on knowing what others do with their genitalia. News media fantasise about what might or might not have taken place, what might or might not take place.
So where would the different youth movements, those for boys, those for girls, be without those who love children, potentially those who have fantasy liaisons with some individuals, but who never touch?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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