Yesterday, I picked up a free newspaper on my university campus. I usually can’t read much of what the local writers have to offer, but this paper caught my eye. The front cover was dark blue with a man and a woman on it. The man had his hands in his pockets and was looking down at his feet as if feeling ashamed. The woman looked distessed as if someone just told her that her toothbrush was used to clean a public toilet. To top this off, the huge letters read, “The Shadow of Addiction”. With sex always on my mind, I naturally stoped and picked it up. As I read, I became more and more convinced that the writer had no idea of what he/she was scribbling about. It started off in a broad sense, explaining to the reader that chatrooms, prostitution, porn, and other ways of communication leads to damaged friendships and relationships; a way for the sex addicts to get their “fix”… and I’m thinking, these are some of the things that I do on a semi-frequent basis(not prostitution). I am not damaged; neither are my friends or family.
The article takes a turn, saying that sex predators are caught by police, posing as underage “innocent” children. PLEASE don’t get me wrong. I agree with our system that underage kids(with the mindset of our society) are off limits… but I think that In some cases, these so-called predators are being provoked. I’m comparing it to a hell-bound “sinner” who has converted to Christianity and is trying to “live right”. (Please keep in mind that I am not a Christain. I respectfully oppose religion) If I’m that converted Christian’s athiest best friend and I disagreed with the change he/she was making, I’d try my hardest to persuade him/her not to make this change. I’d take that person out for drinks, or to a strip club, engage in pre-marital sex, and what ever else I could think of. If he/she folds under the pressure and comes back to the “dark side”, whose fault was it, theirs or mine?… The same question, I think, goes for some Sex “Predators” that have been caught by the police. If that diguised officer hadn’t been in that chatroom to engage the situation, would the situation have ever occured? As I type this, I question myself further.
My argument is similar to that of protestors against the police force in the Tom Cruise movie, The Minority Report. Is it better to catch them with a decoy than to catch them with the atcual unsuspecting boy or girl? Nowadays, with all the wide spread news and the huge prime-time show about sex predators, is the underage child asking for trouble?
I guess It depends on how far into the circumstance the predator has gone.
And another thing; the writer used many and sometimes only the male pronoun. Is the writer saying that the only people who can be addicted to sex are men? Maybe I should be angry with the morbid artist who supplied the misleading pictures…. IDK… Just a thought.
Thanks for spending your time reading my post.
Peace For All,
Mika
