The attitude to sexual assault varies between the sexes and different generations it seems.
This man believes that a teacher putting his hand down his pants never hurt him or the other pupils he witnessed getting fondled.
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Richard Dawkins Defends 'Mild' Pedophilia, Again and Again
BY ABBY OHLHEISER | SEP 10, 2013
Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts.
He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: I dont think he did any of us lasting harm.
I am very conscious that you cant condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we dont look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and cant find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today, he said.
He said the most notorious cases of pedophilia involve rape and even murder and should not be bracketed with what he called just mild touching up.
he personally overcame childhood sexual abuse, meaning it must not be that big of a deal for anyone else who was subjected to similar behavior.
This line of thought goes back at least to 2006 for Dawkins, when he wrote "we live in a time of hysteria about paedophilia, a mob psychology that calls to mind the Salem witch-hunts of 1692," in his popular book the God Delusion. He continued:
All three of the boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affections for small boys overstepped the bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless, if, fifty years on, they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers, I should have felt obliged to come to their defence, even as the victim of one of them (an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience).
http://m.theatlanticwire.com/global...efends-mild-pedophilia-again-and-again/69269/
On the fence with Rolf but who thinks any touching up of a minor is OK and they would give the offending teachers a reference?