re: #452 Obdicut

Well, except it might not be ‘sexual’. Really, unless you’re an actual pedophile, the way that biology and psychology works is that you really can’t see your kid as a sexual being.

I know it’s icky and terrible to us, but some cultures would say that us allowing our children to dress while exposing the amount of skin they do is obvious sign of our sexual interest in our children. I know families in the US where parents and children kiss on the lips and think nothing of it, because obviously, it couldn’t be a romantic or sexual thing. There’s plenty of room for cultural leeway.

But there are pedophiles in every population, and pretending otherwise is very, very dangerous.

If the anthropologists of the “Culture and Personality” school could validate a couple societies without pedophilia, it would shed some useful light on causes and prevention. Probably not going to happen for a lot of reasons including the maturity of their methods and difficulty of penetrating that far into a culture.