@ Antoine Vella:

“Actually there are a few cases of sex between adults and juveniles in some animals”.

I know, but I define pedophilia as a sexual preference. Some apes are known to have sex with all females of their “clan”, irrespective of age, but I don’t define those as pedophiles.

@ John H. Kubrick did all his best to make her look as young as possible. There is a lot of Kubrick in the film that is not Nabakov. For example the lolly pop scene I can’t seem to remember in the book and it was one of the scenes where I found that Kubrick went overboard. At the time the film shocked the world…. like a lot of great art has done before. Any art that leaves you cold is not really art is it?

I believe you completely because I witnessed what nuns did to us boys and girls and Daphne must have wintessed some unpleasant things herself.

In an earler comment I said that most children get over this sort of thing. We remember it but I don’t think it warped us in any significant way. That is why I cannot forgive the St. Joseph home boys – they were warped not by the priests but by things that happened before they entered the institute.

[Daphne – You can’t forgive the boys for what, exactly?]

Don’t get me wrong, sex between a 50 year old priest and a 15 year old boy is very but very odd but many boys have gone through some sort of abuse situation. It is only those who haev previous histories who make a big deal out of it (asking for moey does not help their cause).

[Daphne – Your attitude is most unwise: it happens all the time to lots of boys in many schools etc, so why make a fuss. Let’s carry on raping women, then shall we? After all, it’s been happening since the dawn of time and only a few hysterical neurotics decided to make a fuss about it.]

I of course condemn what the priests did but for heaven’s sake you and I all had to deal with perverts when we were young and it was no big issue for us.

[Daphne – If you had to deal with perverts, dery, talk to somebody. You clearly have a problem here. Most children and adolescents do not have to deal with perverts. I certainly did not, except for the occasional flasher on Tower Road or on a beach, which is absolutely not comparable. I don’t think you grasp the fact that you think this way precisely because you have been groomed and corrupted into thinking that it is nothing, by the people who coached you into thinking that it isn’t. Normal people with secure egos and self-repect react with disgust and fully understand the implications.]

Mrs. Sammut would sellotape our mouths.

My religion teacher – a nun from a different order brought in specifically to teach children at the nuns’ school I attended – made me sit through a whole lesson with a carrier-bag full of horse shit on my feet.

She had said that it was the work of the devil, trying to disrupt our religion lesson. (In realitiy, it was some St. Aloysius’ boys who chucked it through the classroom window at the start of the lesson.)

That nun absolutely disliked me – for reasons unknown, but possibly because I was left-handed (“tax-xitan”). To prove it all the more, she let the girl sitting next to me get up and change her place, while I was not allowed to move my feet from underneath the bag.

I hate that woman to this very day.

Had it happened today, I would have reacted differently – probably by emptying the contents of the bag over her. Hopefully, my children will choose the latter option in the unlikely chance of finding themselves in the same situation.

[Daphne – She wouldn’t have done it to you today. Bullies don’t pick on people who can and will fight back.]

Sue Lyon was not flat chested! Stanley Kubrick had tried to cast a flat chested girl but got into trouble with the censors. He also tried to cast a younger girl, but got into similar problems.

Sue Lyon, for reference to anyone who hasn’t seen the Stanley Kubrick movie –

http://www.google.com.mt/search?q=sue+lyon&hl=mt&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cQU7TrGtNoTKswbx4vUY&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709

I’m sorry, slight tangent. But she definitely did not look like a girl. As hard as he tried (with the pulled up hair and the gum-chewing), he could not reconcile the fact that he did not get what he want.

Actually there are a few cases of sex between adults and juveniles in some animals (weasel, ferret, stoat . . can’t remember which) but it’s too hot to put on my anorak so let’s not go into it.

I had this one teacher who would total up the number of mistakes in my maths homework and they would be translated into slaps on the palm of my hand with a wooden stick. Today’s psychologists (like Mariella – wife of tele evangelist Manche) would scream ABUSE.

No but really, his method is what made me pass my maths exam as otherwise my laziness when t came to things mathematical would have been a major stumbling block to further my education.

Nick, you are damn right. But mind you, there are decent homosexuals, lesbians, paedophiles, hebephiles, ephebophiles and teleiophiles. Some of these guys marry and have children. They will never get into trouble with the law and live their sexual fantasies with full responsibility, adult maturity and mature adulthood i.e. they do not indulge.

Really, there is no trouble with any sexual orientation. People get into trouble when they have low I.Q., psychiatric disorders, severe depression etc.

It’s not true that all paedophiles abuse children. It is also true that not all heterosexuals are of the decent sort. Unfortunately, people don’t know much about the non-heterosexual decent guys who are different from the straight guys because they are rarely mentioned in the newspapers. Ghalhekk dal-hafna isterizmu u injoranza grassa fuq l-orjentamenti sesswali.

U nittama li psikjatra mhux bhal qassis – marbut bis-sigriet.