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Dennis or Kevin's intentions with the girls. What was he planning on doing anyway?


Was Dennis/Kevin planning on something else besides "dancing" with the girls?

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Presumably all he wanted to do is exactly what we heard he liked having young girls do -- and that is making them dance naked for him.

Although it’s easy to think Dennis had more sinister/rapey intentions, we never saw him take things “too far” with the girls... other than setting them up for The Beast ‘course.... despite having the opportunity to do so. For that reason, odds are his plans were, in fact, only to watch them dance. Was this only because, as Patricia said, he wasn’t allowed to touch them? Maybe.

But in “Glass” [spoilers ahead obviously], Dennis reveals he never approved of harming the girls. He even tried to rightfully resist Patricia’s orders at the end. As such, he may have been a perv of some sort but he clearly had control over himself and so in all probability he wasn’t going to do anything to his captors in “Split” besides making them dance in the nude. And having The Beast feast on them later on.

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Based on the hints in the film, I get the impression Dennis is a paedophile/ephebophile and would have wanted to hurt the girls and assault them. Patricia (and possibly Hedwig...) kept him in check, as the three of them wanted to keep the girls in "pure" condition for the Beast - some sort of sacrifice it demanded.

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Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children. "Ephebophile" is a stupid term.

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"Well, that's just like, your opinion, man."

Why is it stupid?

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Because its natural to be sexually attracted to people who are sexually mature. That includes teenagers.

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I don't think it's stupid myself, because it's a term used to talk about somebody who is showing interest in a sexually-mature person, but one who is not much older. Because there isn't another term for this, I find the word useful for descriptions. Because it has utility, I don't find it stupid.

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People nowadays are so stupid, they even think 30 year old men who have sex with 18 year old girls are pedophiles.

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