Quote of the day

[elfs]

Unattributed but oh-so-true quote: "One of the problems with being forty is that you now know people-- very cute, very desirable people-- who are available and legal and who want to fuck you-- who you knew when they were nine years old. And there's something very icky about that."

Comments

That does hit a bit too close to home...

[murbin.livejournal.com]

Yup. Been there. Haven't done it.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

This treads the line of pedophelia. In the law, there is no line because the line has moved, but the lines in your mind never move.

The mind wishes for the world to be static.

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Well, I say balderdash to it. I entertain strange thoughts about it, but that's just sort of alternate world reality stuff. I can't let it stand in the way of having a life with people I now consider to be co-adults with me.

My current partner is 35. I'm 55. When she was born I was a corporal in Korea, but why in the world should I let then bother me now?

[atheorist.livejournal.com]

persnickety precision:

It's not having known them when they were young that matters. It's having known them when it would have been pedophilia to be attracted to them that matters.

If you were nine when they were nine, everything is okay.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I find the quote relates to something we had a pesudo-discussion of at our recent wake for Hunter S.

There we determined that one of the ladies there was a year younger than my oldest son and had actually been out with my third son. She was talking about how now she knew thet were my sons she'd feel a bit squicky about doing it again.

Not because of their age difference's but because of the whole idea of being involved with the children of friends!

Somehow the act of "really" kissing seemed to be the dividing line, so I joked about being willing to make the sacrifice to protect my children from wild women such as her by kissing them and she kicked my foot as was appropriate for such a statement.
^__^

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Earlier than that, in my case, but yeah, true. (I'm 34. My math teacher from 8th grade was then pregnant with a very cute daughter who is now 21? Oh My Goddess.)

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

Of course, you know the best thing about having a 12-year old girlfriend, yes?

You can put her hair in pigtails and pretend she's nine.

Speaking of being small and cute and desirable and such - thanks for the help with the Hello Kitty clips the other night. :)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're quite welcome!

It works both ways.

[hedgemage.livejournal.com]

A while back, I ended up becoming very close friends with one of my dad's best friends. Every once in a while, the conversation turns to sex (just a normal conversation, we have no interest in one another), and I'll remember halfway into the discussion that he's my dad's friend, and remembers what I was like as an infant, and a little girl, and an awkward preteen... that's just *weird*.