Sex is FREE!

I had a restless night sandwiched in between the final chapters of Reichs’ Monday Mourning. <spoiler>The part where the perpetrator’s dungeon of doom and captives are discovered in the basement of a Pointe-Saint-Charles home</spoiler>. I’ll save you the gory details. At least the suspense has picked up, I was about to ditch the book just as I had Brown’s Digital Fortress recently. Oh and by the way, the full title of that Dan Brown book is Digital Fortress: A Thriller… I’ll be the judge of that.

<dream>I dreamt of Mr. M. and spent a part of the night trying to remember every detail. I do not have good recall of dreams. They are vivid as they happen and then are taken from me once I wake up. I saw him randomly and he took me to a remote place. I wasn’t necessarily happy to see him but as usual intrigued by his plans and story lines. I wish I could recall the details of our encounter but it was intense enough to cause me to scream (not out of horror.) Then he simply vanished abandoning me there. Another sexless aborted plan. Exciting but frustrating… and life goes on.</dream>

While he is long gone and may soon vanish from my memory… I have been waiting to follow-up on something… You see I am curious. He made a vague historical reference concerning Caesar (misspelling another name.) It took me a while to find the actual historical event (and which frickin’ Caesar he was referring to) and realize it was something out of the series Rome. I just started re-watching episodes 1-6 as they are the only ones I had originally kept. My tracker is still showing ETA 1y 9w until I can see the aforementioned episode… I shall not tell you what it is and from which episode, you should watch the whole series. It’s full of things you wish you could discuss at the water cooler but probably wont. I will soon discuss them here I cannot afford the DVDs and the Rogers DVD rental service (formerly Zipsomething) has sent me so many unplayable scratched disks that I gave up on it. I don’t want to search endlessly for blogger opinions about the storyline, I want to see it myself.

This morning I find this story in my Facebook feed: Teen Girl Charged With Sex Offense For Sending Nude Pictures of Herself. Oh dear what has this world come to?

Obviously sending a naked picture of one’s self to someone else is not a good idea espescially if you are not yet an adult. However, how can a girl be charged for possessing child pornography when the pictures are of herself? Isn’t this equal to saying she does not have the right to enjoy her own body? It is as insulting as a victim seeing her rapist(s) getting a fine rather than jailtime. And where do you draw the line as to what is sexy and what is indecent? I have a hard time believing that this is a criminal case but I may just be affected by double standards. What about a 15 year old boys who sends naked pictures of himself to other teens. While I have never read of such a case it suddenly seems more sinister. This is a behavior that is not criminal, it is influenced by the over-sexualization of teens in general. By a culture that presents teens indulging in all sorts of adult activities. However I strongly feel that this is a case of misconduct that should be addressed at the school, by the administration, parents and counselors. If other criteria are met it could fall into sexual harassment or misconduct. These kids are young, that process alone should give them pause before doing something else that is stupid. However people (parents?) have become whiny babies who love attention and would rather cause a scene than address it themselves (with their children) and discreetly like mature people. As it stands both teenagers could get juvenile detention AND find themselves on the registered sex offenders list. This list is becoming a repository of everybody and their cousin who once got drunk and took a piss in an alley only to be inadvertently seen by passers-by. The mass tacking of people on that registry and the paranoia it causes in everybody else should soon become an official factor on the list of risks for heart disease. However, inadvertently seeing boobies has never scarred anyone for life. I am going off on a tangent here because I think there is a difference between malice and stupidity. (Watch The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon, it’s a good movie) And in the interest of disclosure I am guilty of playing if you show me yours I’ll show you mine. Insert current technology into the mix and you can multiply the embarrassment factor by 1000 but it doesn’t make it a crime.

Oh, I should be working… I have a date this afternoon. I look forward to it.

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