1. Another Intellectually Bankrupt Fembot At Large
I could not hold back my anger after I read this ludicrous article by Martha Kempner titled "Epstein Files Debate Gets Pedophilia and Power Wrong." This woman actually calls herself a sexual health expert. She claims that she has been in the business of it for nearly three decades, but it doesn't mean that she's holier than thou.
Ms. Kempner insists in her bio that she has zero tolerance for misinformation. However, she isn't very reluctant to feed misinformation to her readers.
Now, I agree with Ms. Kempner that the late Jeffrey Epstein was a tyrant and a master manipulator, and he was undoubtedly abusive and toxic in his involvement with the teenage girls that he brought to Little Saint James Island for his human trafficking ring. She criticizes Republican Wyoming Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, television journalist Megyn Kelly, and others like them for making a distinction between prepubescent girls and teenage girls whenever it comes to the subject of sex crimes.
Well, Ms. Kempner. I'm not here to put angel wings on the late Mr. Epstein and his accomplices, but I will not accuse him of being a clone of notorious pedophiles and child molesters like the late John Couey, Donald James Smith, Jesse Timmendequas, and the late Kenneth Parnell. All four of these men had child rape victims under the age of eleven, and three of them murdered their victims.
I will even go as far as stating herein that although the late Mr. Epstein could never have been mistaken for a saint, Sergio Andrade of Mexico made him look like Santa Claus in comparison. If you don't know who Sergio Andrade is, he committed virtually identical crimes as those of the late Mr. Epstein except he took it all a step further by murdering the babies of the pubescent and adolescent girls that he sexually assaulted.
And, yes, I haven't forgotten all the sexual atrocities that soldiers over in Bosnia committed against preteen girls back in the mid-1990s in the presence of their captured parents. These girls were even forcibly impregnated, which evolved into even further tragedies in that region of the world.
Nonetheless, Ms. Kempner, you do not get to take writer's license with the definition of pedophilia and try to fool people into believing that there is no difference between a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old minor. There is a world of a difference between the two.
For that same reason, when Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Ray Blanchard attempted to convince the American Psychiatric Association ("A. P. A.") to expand and broaden the clinical definition of pedophilia to include pubescent and adolescent youngsters in a pedophile's age pole of sexual attraction in the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("DSM-5"), the A. P. A. wisely rejected that proposal back in 2013. You don't get to beat a dead horse, Ms. Kempner, because the A. P. A. already decided the matter years ago.
I'm unaware of the late Mr. Epstein having any 9-year-old victims. However, if he did have victims that young, then, Ms. Kempner, you can safely accuse him of being a pedophile. I did an AI search on Google and found nothing about it.
Megyn Kelly did nothing wrong in differentiating between an adult man's attraction to teenage girls as opposed to a pedophile's deviant attraction to 8-year-old girls. She was merely adhering to the DSM-5 in doing so.
2. Martha Kempner's Faulty Research And Misleading Statements
In her above-described article, Martha Kempner stated:
Let’s start by getting our terms straight: Pedophiles are people who have a sexual preference for children, usually prepubescent children or those who are around the age of puberty. Pedophilia is a psychiatric diagnosis. You can be a pedophile without sexually abusing children, and you can be a child abuser without meeting the diagnostic definition of a pedophile.
Ms. Kempner? Pedophilia has nothing to do with minors that are going through puberty. That would be either hebephilia or ebephophilia, and those two age inclinations are nothing more than social constructs. The DSM-5 does not recognize them as paraphilias or psychiatric disorders. After the A. P. A. rejected Dr. Ray Blanchard's above-aforementioned proposal, they concluded that hebephilia was normative.
An adult man who is sexually attracted to a teenage girl can even be a teleiophile. Teleiophilia is the scientific definition of being normal in one's sexual attractions.
What you are doing in your article, Ms. Kempner, is peddling fake pedophilia at the most. Pedophiles are not sexually attracted to teenage girls. An adult man's attraction to teenage girls is normative according to the A. P. A.
In her above-described article, Ms. Kempner stated:
The word pedophile instantly conjures up abuse of small children, which makes our hearts break and our skin crawl. This visceral reaction is understandable, and it may explain why Lummis, Kelly, and other public figures have insisted on drawing a distinction between the abuse of young children and the rape of teenagers.
Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, TV journalist Megyn Kelly, and other public figures have insisted on drawing a distinction between the abuse of young children and the rape of teenagers, because the A. P. A. makes that same distinction in the DSM-5. The American Court of Public Opinion does not have the upper ground over this same argument.
Therein Ms. Kempner stated:
To be clear, the law does not distinguish between a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old—both minors—when it comes to sex. While age of consent laws vary by state, all states see 15 as too young to consent. With the possible rare exception of consenting couples who are close in age (for example, the 18-year-old high school senior dating a 15-year-old sophomore), any adult who has sex with someone 15 or younger has committed a crime.
Perhaps so, Ms. Kempner. However, most criminal cases involving sexual contact between an adult and a 15-year-old minor warrant an acquittal on jury nullification. People are beginning to wake up to the unfairness of American statutory-rape laws. On the other hand, anyone can see the harm that an adult man can do to a 9-year-old girl by sexually molesting her.
Therefore, there is a clear distinction between the two scenarios, even within the letter of the law. A 47-year-old man who sexually molests a 9-year-old girl is going to receive a much harsher penalty from the court system than a 21-year-old man who has consensual relations with his 15-year-old girlfriend. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that much out.
Therein Ms. Kempner stated:
. . . in some states, teens having sex with teens is illegal, too.
As I said, there’s only legal and illegal—not “barely legal.”
When I first moved out to California, under that state jurisdiction's statutory-rape laws of that time period, a 14-year-old boy could have been indicted for statutory rape if he was caught having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl. Yes, you got it. He could have gone to jail for having sex with a girl THREE YEARS OLDER THAN HIM.
I could see that young boy's mother screaming and cursing at the prosecuting attorney and getting ready to punch him out right in front of the judge. The California legislature did the smart thing and eventually got rid of that section in the statutory-rape laws. They would have needed Jerry Falwell or Kenneth Copeland to try such a case.
No, Ms. Kempner. There's not only legal and illegal. There is true sexual criminal conduct and then there is mere civil disobedience. A middle-aged man abducting and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl is true sexual criminal conduct, whereas a college boy having a roll in the hay with his 15- or 16-year-old girlfriend in the afternoon in his dorm really amounts to nothing more than civil disobedience.
3. The Criminal Justice System's Current Misconception Regarding Consenting Adolescents
In her above-described article, Martha Kempner stated:
I believe that teens should be experimenting with sex. I’ve spent much of my career as a sex educator arguing that sexual development and experimentation are natural parts of adolescence that help young people understand themselves and develop the relationship skills they’ll need as adults. Grown-ups should see high school students as capable of having consensual sexual relationships with each other.
Ms. Kempner? What you're trying to do is absorb your reading audience into your make-believe world of age-appropriate perfection and wholesome purity. Not all teenagers in high school prefer that their sex partners be the same age as them. In her article titled "Rage of Consent," feminist Heather Corinna describes teenagers that got along better with adult sex partners than with sex partners their own age.
Society needs to stop putting former and current high-school hunks on pedestals merely because they have girls flocking at them from the time they're in the sixth grade and they marry their high-school sweetheart at age 19. These proverbial prom kings can be the most despicable people in the world. You have to look no further than Toby Willis to know so.
Toby Willis was a big shot in high school who had a girlfriend throughout his teenage years. He married her and had a large family with her. Now he is serving a 40-year prison sentence for raping all of his daughters from the time they were 3 years old.
Don Johnson was 22 years old when he began dating Melanie Griffith, who was only 13 or 14 years old at the time, and he never harmed any of his kids as far as I know. Even Oprah Winfrey of all people condoned their relationship at its outset.
Therein Ms. Kempner stated:
But relationships can only be consensual if the couple is on equal footing. When one holds too much control because of their age, status, or position of authority over the other (think coach, teacher, or boss), true consent is rarely possible. Age is not the only power imbalance, but it seems obvious that a 51-year-old man looking for sex from a 14-year-old is a predator—not a partner.
I get so sick of hearing this argument, because it's not all based on facts but rather on popular belief. Ms. Kempner? Don't give me this crap about how relationships can only be consensual if the couple is on equal footing. Whenever you pseudo-feminist know-it-alls make this point, you never condemn hypergamy; and hypergamous relationships are not on equal footing, but no woman ever calls them exploitative or wrong.
I can wholeheartedly agree with you that parents don't send their teenage kids to school to have sex with the faculty or with other adults in positions of authority over them. That's only understandable. However, merely because a teenager is involved in a cross-generational relationship with an adult doesn't necessarily mean that anyone is getting raped or abused.
Ms. Kempner? You claim that a 51-year-old man looking for sex from a 14-year-old girl is a predator - not a partner. Well, the late Juan Perón and the late Nelly Rivas might beg to differ if either one of them were still alive.
Moreover, Ms. Kempner, if a 51-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl have sexual intercourse with each other, what makes you think that the 51-year-old man is with the 14-year-old girl to prey on her? Did it ever occur to you that he might happen to be in love with her and vice versa?
Back in the 1950s in Argentina when the late Juan Perón first met the late Nelly Rivas, the late Mr. Perón was in his late fifties and the late Ms. Rivas was only 13 or 14 years of age. The late Mr. Perón had no non-Platonic interest in any of the late Ms. Rivas' female classmates back then. However, he saw the late Ms. Rivas as someone whom he would have wanted to marry if political unrest in their nation had not split them apart.
I once saw a video of an interview in Spanish on YouTube of a gentleman who personally knew the late Mr. Perón, and he insisted that the late Mr. Perón truly loved the late Ms. Rivas and never set out to take advantage of her. The interview did not have English subtitles. The information in the interview was only available in Spanish, and I suspected that the reason for it was that the American Court of Public Opinion would not have been able to handle someone defending such a relationship in any culture.
Ms. Kempner? I do not disagree with you that the late Jeffrey Epstein engaged in misogynistic behavior against teenage girl minors. He was definitely no asset to their lives, to say the least. Of course, there are people who disagree with us.
In a YouTube video from a gentleman named Steven Robert Whitsett, the comments section to that video had posts in which YouTubers expressed indifference toward the teenage girls who alleged to have been victims of the late Mr. Epstein's depravities. In the comments section to the video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of 
Epstien... I have my own thoughts about that mess. 2 words I've never heard surrounding that entire mess is "kidnapped" or "forced". Those girls were compensated handsomely for what they did. Don't get me started.... They knew what they were doing. They weren't children.
In reply to YouTuber
they are still getting compensated by "telling their stores" yet the main person they try to claim is responsible is dead. Some have made book deals and are raking it in big time. I would think if those powerful people really were that afraid. Then they would have had each of those girls signing legally binding agreements to keep their mouths shut or else have to pay back all the money that was given to have them their. If not wouldn't even be around to tell their stories cause they'd have disappeared overnight. People with tons of money and power can make any random lower class person go away for good easily without getting their hands dirty. In the end if they were to get true justice then they would have never accepted any money or any money they received should be going towards helping others along with getting them treatment. Otherwise it can all be seen as a bribe and putting a price tag on a crime that nobody besides the wealthy can afford to pay to go away without any severe consequences
If you think these two YouTubers are harsh on the late Mr. Epstein's underage victims, you don't even want to hear what some of the older women interviewed on the streets of Mexico said about Sergio Andrade's underage victims back during his sex scandal. They definitely didn't see them as innocent little girls.
Whenever a sex scandal like the one involving Sergio Andrade and teenage girls surfaces down in Mexico, people there don't seem to get as excited about it as they do in the United States whenever something similar happens here. Singer Gloria Trevi was an accomplice of Mr. Andrade in his crimes; and shortly after she was able to return to Mexico from South America, she was invited to appear on a children's television show. That is something that would never occur in the United States.
Nonetheless, the press and the media always make it appear that older men are to blame for all teenage girls' problems. Journalists like Ms. Kempner are instrumental in that same misconception. The reality is that most pubescent and adolescent girls suffer sexual violence and abuse at the hands of boys their own age, because underage boys are the ones who have most access to them out of anyone of any age and have the most opportunities to violate them.
The press and the media won't stop talking about the Epstein files. However, shortly after the late Aubreigh Wyatt of Ocean Springs, Mississippi was raped by a boy her own age when she was 12 years old and eventually committed suicide at age 13 because of it, among other things, the press and the media buried her story. Now, you have to search all over YouTube to find anything out about it.
Ms. Kempner? You should publish an article about how same-age relationships in middle school and high school can lead to rape, and how successful cross-generational relationships that teenage girls get involved in with adult men do exist. If you did so, I would develop more respect for your professional integrity. I guess nobody cares about the facts these days. It's now only a matter of what sells to the public at large.
4. The Detrimental And Dangerous Conflation Of Child Molestation And The Rape Of Teenage Girls
Ms. Kempner? Why are you so dead set on expanding and broadening the definition of pedophilia to include predation against teenage girls? If the late Aubreigh Wyatt's same-age rapist were branded as a pedophile, would you be okay with that? I know that a number of mothers with sexually out-of-control teenage sons wouldn't go for it. Then again, who cares what they think? They shouldn't even be enabling their rapist sons in the first place.
In her above-described article, Ms. Kempner stated:
For some people—and I’m betting that Trump, Lummis, and Kelly fall into this group–the distinction between an 8-year old and a 15-year-old likely seems important because 15-year-old girls can be sexual. Most have breasts and curves and pubic hair. They may wear make-up and short skirts. They probably think about boys or girls or both. They might read spicy books and have sexual fantasies.
Well, Ms. Kempner? Isn't that what distinguishes 15-year-old girls from 8-year-old girls? A real pedophile is going to be sexually attracted to an 8-year-old girl, because he is what he is and he will likely always be what he is, even if he has to serve decades in prison for molesting a child. He'll likely be the same person when he gets out of prison.
An 8-year-old girl is almost always still in Tanner Stage 1, whereas a 15-year-old girl is in Tanner Stage 2 or higher. If an adult man sees a 15-year-old girl in a bikini on the beach and she is a full-figured woman in his eyes, he's not going to pretend that he doesn't notice her. And he's not going to say, "What a cute little girl." He would only be lying to himself in that event.
5. The Deceitful Infantilization Of Teenagers
In many European nations, a 15-year-old girl is considered to be a consenting adult in the eyes of the law, and these nations have gotten along fairly well in terms of how adult men and teenage girls relate to one another. American statutory-rape laws are frequently criticized for being out of touch with reality because of the fact that adult men and teenage girls can and do gravitate toward one another.
If a 27-year-old man walks into a nightclub here in the United States and sees girls in there like the ones in the video below, what do you think is going to happen? It's very obvious that adult men are going to find girls like the ones in the video below to be attractive, and they will probably approach them to socialize with them.
Teenage Girls Participate In A Fashion Blog And Flaunt Off Their Womanly Beauty
If any of these same girls are underage, each of them is likely going to have fake I.D. on them. If any of them talk the 27-year-old man into having sex with one of them, he probably won't know that they're under the statutory age of consent until after the police are pounding on his front door.
Ms. Kempner? I completely get it that you feel that 15 years old is too low of a statutory age of consent for any jurisdiction of the United States. However, if state jurisdictions are going to have statutory ages of consent at 16 years old or higher, then why does statutory rape have to be a strict-liability offense? Why can't it be downgraded to an intent offense instead?
Also, how is it right for a prosecutor to charge an alleged victim of statutory rape with contempt of court if he or she decides to refuse to testify against his or her older significant other? Sending an alleged victim to lock-up is not going to serve justice under any given standard in that event. There are so many things wrong with American statutory-rape laws that it's not even funny.
The statutory age of consent in Argentina is 18 years old. However, once a girl turns 13 years of age there, the prosecutor has to prove somehow that actual harm was done to her in the alleged underage sexual intercourse. The prosecution has to show that the offending adult, so to speak, overpowered her somehow. The prosecutor doesn't get to base his or her case strictly on the math like here in the United States. That's how our statutory-rape laws should be in our nation instead of the way they currently are.
In her above-described article, Ms. Kempner stated:
Some 15-year-olds even have sex: In 2023, 16 percent of ninth graders and 25 percent of 10th graders reported they had had sexual intercourse. This is likely why we’ve seen so many people—including some legitimate news sources, like NPR—refer to the young girls as “underage women.” Again, that’s not a thing. Even in high heels and mascara, being “underage” means that you’re a child.
Wrong, Ms. Kempner. According to medical science, childhood ends at puberty. Calling a 15-year-old girl a child is strictly a cultural construct here in the United States. Whenever a police officer and a prosecutor find it convenient, they'll try a 15-year-old girl as an adult for a serious crime. In other words, people in our criminal justice system want to have their cake and eat it too.
Therein Ms. Kempner stated:
And children are children—not women. Suggesting otherwise could lead to blaming girls for wearing the wrong clothes, making bad choices, leading men on, or any number of other things that we tend to put on rape survivors after the fact.
Let children be children, and teenagers be teenagers, Ms. Kempner. You should not conflate the two, because they are diametrically different from each other in that they are in two entirely different stages of life.
If a 15-year-old girl insists that her sexual involvement with her 22-year-old boyfriend wasn't rape, even though the law says it was, her opinion should trump everything. Her parents may get temporary satisfaction in the short run if they successfully send her boyfriend to prison, but in the long run, their actions could have serious consequences for them. We now live in the era of adult children going no-contact with their parents.
Ms. Kempner? I agree that we should listen to the survivors of Epstein Island and stop debating over the literal definition of pedophilia and the likes. Human trafficking is human trafficking regardless of the ages of the victims. However, at the same time, I don't think we should be encouraging our elected officials to raise the statutory age of consent to 35 years old in every U.S. jurisdiction, if you want to put it in figurative language.
The concern I have about you, Ms. Kempner, is that you fail to see the bigger picture surrounding all these same issues. You're seeing everything with tunnel vision, and you're very one-sided. It would be fairly easy for you to differentiate between an 8-year-old and a 15-year-old when it comes to the argument over sexual vulnerability.
Let's just say, Ms. Kempner, that you were walking to your car late at night through a large parking lot with poor lighting. If you encountered a group of 8-year-old boys, what would you do? You'd act concerned that they were out late at night instead of at home in bed. You'd express your empathy for them, and you'd probably phone the police to ensure that this situation because of their negligent parents never happened again.
Now, Ms. Kempner, let's say that you were walking to your car through a large parking lot with poor lighting late at night and you encountered a group of 15-year-old boys instead. They started catcalling you and hollering all sorts of obscenities at you. What would you do?
You'd probably be rushing to your car as fast as possible to get inside it and blast out of there as quickly as possible, because you'd be getting a very bad feeling about these teenage boys' intentions. Therefore, Ms. Kempner, you have to realize that there is, in fact, a world of a difference between an 8-year-old and a 15-year-old.
Every time you surf the Internet, you're going to come across more and more stories about underage boys violently raping adult women, even elderly women. So, Ms. Kempner, can you honestly say that a 14-year-old girl is going to be so much better off with a 15-year-old boyfriend than with a 23-year-old boyfriend? I don't think so. Never mind what society and the status quo have to say about it. Society and the status quo don't have all the answers.
Ms. Kempner? If you read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end, you'll find that the criminal justice system handles cases of underage boys raping adult women very poorly. Our laws still allow an underage rapist to charge his adult victim with statutory rape afterwards, even though he is the culprit of a heinous sex crime and he is the one who harmed his adult victim rather than the other way around.
You cannot tell me that the United States has the best statutory-rape laws in the world, because, as far as I'm concerned, nothing could be any further from the truth. I don't believe that an alleged underage victim's prior criminal sexual conduct should be inadmissible in a statutory-rape trial in any jurisdiction of our nation.
6. Final Thoughts
While I do agree that cross-generational relationships between teenage girls and adult men can become toxic, I reject the notion that there is this a one-size-fits-all determination that a relationship between a teenage girl and an adult man could never be successful and non-exploitative. Adult men, even middle-aged men, have been falling in love with adolescent girls since the beginning of time, and their relationships with them have led to long, happy marriages and prosperous families.
Even the thought that a psychiatrist, Dr. Ray Blanchard, attempted to get the A. P. A. to broaden and expand the definition of pedophilia to include adult men that are attracted to pubescent and adolescent girls in the DSM-5 makes me want to jump into a time machine to travel back to 1885 and fire a deadly bullet between Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing's eyes. In case you don't know who Dr. von Krafft-Ebing is, he's the psychiatrist who conceptualized pedophilia in 1886.
Upon coining terms like "pedophile" and "pedophilia," Dr. von Krafft-Ebing did not really create clinical terms to differentiate adults that are sexually attracted to prepubescent children from adults who have normative sexual attractions to post-pubertal people outside their peer circles. Instead, he created a monster that opened Pandora's box.
Television shows and docudramas, so to speak, glamorize first-love relationships that start in the seventh or eighth grade and eventually blossom into marriage upon reaching adulthood, whereas these same entertainment vehicles vilify age-gap relationships between teenage schoolgirls and adult men. Fact has it that these television programs are merely attempting to promote a caste system in our society here in the United States.
Not all men over 21 years of age who fall in love with high-school girls or even middle-schools are anything like the late Jeffrey Epstein, and not all men who meet the love of their life in the sixth grade and marry her when they are both 18 or 19 years is as decent and wholesome as Johnny Tanner of The Tannerites that appear on the YouTube channel named Yawi Vlogs by Tannerites.
There have been adult men who have formed meaningful cross-generational relationships with teenage girls that have led to successful marriages and happy families; whereas there have been proverbial prom kings who met the love of their life in the sixth grade, got married to her at age 19, and have turned out to be horrible husbands and abusive fathers. More often than not black is white and white is black.
People like Martha Kempner need to stop decorating same-age relationships that come to be in early adolescence as something out of a Harlequin romance novel or a Disney film. Reality has it that American statutory-rape laws are ruining the lives of couples and families and are driving adult children to go no-contact with their parents.
Moreover, individuals wrongfully forced onto the sex-offender registry are expatriating from the United States, which is causing our economy to erode into future Biblical levels of poverty and homelessness. If someone like Ms. Kempner really wants to go up to bat for minors, she should launch a campaign to reform the inheritance laws throughout our nation so that no survivor of incest or child abuse at the hands of their parents ends up poor and even homeless.
"Predator hunters" and similar-styled vigilantes are not saving the youth of our nation from their own hedonistic adventures with older sex partners, if you can really say that they need that type of saving. While all the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world need to pay the legal consequences of their actions, as Americans, we should not use their example to generalize about cross-generational relationships between adult men and teenage girls.
Pedophile-panic propaganda only promotes fake pedophilia. Fake pedophilia is a liability rather than a social benefit to the American people.
South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has recently introduced a bill to the Congress that, if signed into law, would impose the death penalty against any adult who commits a sexual offense against a minor. In other words, in that same event, if a 26-year-old man who would never attend a pedophile pride parade is arrested for having consensual relations with his 14- or 15-year-old girlfriend, he could be on his way to the electric chair thanks to fake pedophilia.
Even worse so, in the event of this same bill's passage, a 15-year-old girl with fake I.D. who fools a 27-year-old man into believing that she's 19 years old and talks him into having sexual intercourse with her could easily be sending that same 27-year-old man to death row in the event that the authorities find out about it. Congresswoman Mace would be better off at least requiring that the victim of child rape or the likes be under 12 years of age in her bill if she really wants it to pass.
My additional response to this same bill is why doesn't Congresswoman Mace introduce a bill on Capitol Hill that would impose the death penalty against prison rapists instead? They would be ones that certainly would deserve to be euthenized or fried in the electric chair. I can imagine that such a bill would more likely sway the U.S. Supreme Court justices to overturn the Coker vs. Georgia ruling than one that makes teenage sex a capital offense if it is cross-generational.
I have to remind myself rudely that I live in America The Stupid. Our sex laws are equally as retarded as the people who write them. These are the reasons why fake pedophilia is dangerously harmful to our nation.
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