"Why did you do it????"

We've come so far since Jane Auel's "Clan of the Cavebear" and the much treasured (by me anyway) ASSUME THE POSITION hand signal for sex. Then a female of breeding age was subserviant to the desires of the male - the wielder of the fearsome phallus, the one eyed snake, the loin cloth lizard, the tyrannasaurus e-rex (erects, get it? HUH?).

Now we have health care and life spans and childhood has become an extended period of time that we, as a society, try to protect and preserve. No more are brides bartered for at birth and bestowed upon an eager groom at the first sign of menses. The clock has stopped ticking quite so fast and baby making isn't something that needs to be engaged in before you're 20 and middle aged. Healthcare has improved the odds of having a baby survive - the mother too - and this has led to an extended Age of Innocence. The law supports it.

Everytime I watch MSNBC To Catch A Predator I shout at the television. I shout philosophical questions. I rant about the "predators" they're catching, and how some of them just really don't seem like the threat to society and that Age of Innocence that I would like to see put away for years of their life. I shout about how some of the "innocent children" that give detailed shopping lists for sex toys gathered from the minds of the adults that they really are, just really don't seem like they're all that innocent. Of course, they're not. They're grown men and women that are fully aware of how to push the sex buttons of the men that had the poor judgement to say, "Hi" to somebody that was underage.

Some poor guy on the episode I watched tonight was a just turned 22 year old virgin. He had JESUS ROCKS on his myspace page. Chris Hanson expressed confusion as to how him talking about sex to a young girl that was open to ALL he had questions about (really a fat 40 something man) coincided with him writing JESUS ROCKS on his myspace. I mean, geez, in court papers filed in connection with an abuse victim’s lawsuit, the Providence, Rhode Island diocese said that 125 priests have been accused of molesting children between 1971 and 2006. Isn't Rhode Island about an acre? But lets not be tunnel visioned. The insurance companies that handle child sexual abuse cases gave the following figures to the associated press: about 100 complaints a year for the past decade have been filed against protestant churches. And what the hell is NAMBLA about??? The only information I have on that organization is what I've gleaned from Matt and Trey and their South Park episode featuring the "North American Man Boy Love Association". Not pretty. But Chris Hanson is right there to make sure a 22 year old virgin - who got caught talking about sex to a 40 year old fat man who made him think he was a 14 year old slender, female, eager beaver who LOVED all that he had to say and was ready willing and ABLE to explore all there was to know about carnal love with this clean cut religious young man - (deep breath) was told that this was NOT WJWD.

Yea, because of course the "Book of the New Millenium Rules for Internet Conduct" is sure to be added to the Really New Testiment just as soon as somebody gets struck by lightening and comes up with a cd disc then burned with the latest word from on High.

So when is the media that promotes the beauty of "youth" and displays it all in sexually suggestive means and modes going to get slapped with some sort of corruption lawsuit? Why are 14 year old girls made up like grown women and dressed in alluring clothes to sell the products of companies to men that are still functioning under the DAWG 1.0 operating system that nature designed back in the day of the Clan of the Cavebear?

Lets have the prolonged Age of Innocence. I'm all for it. But surely this cognative dissonance between media driven ideals and the way we want 22 year old religious virgins to relate to fat 40 year old men that have display pics of 14 year old slender, females with a voracious appetite for sex must be stopped.

Word.