Interesting. I also read an interview with Mr. Raucher and he relayed the story on how Dorothy contacted him several years later after the film was made (he knew it was her from the specifics that no one else would know). He said how she said she was guilt ridden about what happened and was glad he was OK. Seems to me if Hermie had just held Dorothy that night as she grieved for her dead husband, there would be nothing to feel guilty about.
She'd been tricked by an increasingly PC culture that she'd "abused" him --- teenaged boys are even more romantically-minded than girls (contrary to popular belief) and it was a terrific, meaningful memory for him. But the poor woman wound up thinking she was a pervert who'd raped him, supposedly damaging him forever.
Perhaps it's different with guys, but what's legal and what's moral or normal are different thing. And the voluntary nature of such things makes a huge difference on a person psychologically, and the relationship was consenual.
No, I'm not calling for women to start cruising the junior highs, but a lot of this puritannical political correctness got started in the '80s, when anybody under-18 was seen as a statutory-rape/rape/molestation victim -- even when many States still had an age of consent law of 16 (and some even 14!). So the States couldn't even get their legal indignance in line with each other.
"I will go a step further, I wish that I had been "molested" by a woman that hot back when I was a teen."
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Yeah, as grown men, we all wish that NOW, even fantasize about it. But very few males at that age can deal with something like this without it having a profound impact on their adulthood. Several young men in that situation later committed suicide.
Most pubescent and post-pubescent boys are utterly obsessed with sex. And it's not just "fantasy" which why so many of them actively engage in it, despite societal disapproval.
You seem to be talking about some kind of enforced rape scenario. But voluntary, consensual sex for a 15 year old boy with a non-minor rarely drives him to suicide --- except, perhaps, when the sex stops. That's a killer.
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LBJ's mistress on JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXeutDmuRA
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She'd been tricked by an increasingly PC culture that she'd "abused" him --- teenaged boys are even more romantically-minded than girls (contrary to popular belief) and it was a terrific, meaningful memory for him. But the poor woman wound up thinking she was a pervert who'd raped him, supposedly damaging him forever.
Except that the gestation of her guilt occurred in the 1940s, not during the current PC madness we are "enjoying" now.
Most pubescent and post-pubescent boys are utterly obsessed with sex. And it's not just "fantasy" which why so many of them actively engage in it, despite societal disapproval.
True, but that is the same for females as well. While the hormones in their bodies are driving their urges, hormones do nothing for their emotional maturity.
You seem to be talking about some kind of enforced rape scenario. But voluntary, consensual sex for a 15 year old boy with a non-minor rarely drives him to suicide --- except, perhaps, when the sex stops. That's a killer.
You couldn't be more wrong. Ever notice that the defense of May-December sex never comes from the teenagers themselves? It all seems harmless at our ages now but I assure you it isn't. In our town a young man did attempt suicide after such an encounter. In therapy, it was revealed that this young, immature but intelligent (almost brilliant) child couldn't come to grips with what happened. True story.
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