Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
While there are many 'satellite' reasons, none I think explains it completely. Wasn't that it was incest, or a celebrity family, or they were rich, or even the hypocrisy. I think the real why it's such a thing is that it proves a 14 year-old can have sexual desires.
With our country and culture's refusal to accept teens are sexual beings with the desires every adult has, the fact that denied of the opportunity to express those feelings, a 14 year-old availed himself with the only partner he could, his own sisters (and another girl.)
In a country like Denmark, not only could he have sought sex with someone his own age, but in all likelyhood both his parents and the partner's parents would have been fine with it. Read a thing a while back stating most Danish kids have their frist sexual experience around age 10, and at home with the full knowledge of their parents. In a country where sex-ed begins very early, and sex isn't villified, kids going through puberty and having sex isn't remarkale. Compare that to the USA where sex is villified, sex-ed all but non-existant and we go freaking nuts when young teens get caught having sex or exhibiting any sexual interest.
In every animal but our own, we describe an animal that can reproduce itself as 'sexually mature.' In humans, puberty is the beginning of our species' ability to reproduce itself. Part of that is the body produces sex hormones (testosterone or estrogen.) The result is sexual desire. As repression of sexuality for Catholic clergy shows, repressing human nature doesn't work. It still gets expressed, the only difference is it gets expressed badly.
The real tragedy then with the Duggar incident isn't perhaps the act itself, but that the boy was so sexually suppressed so that his only sexual outlet was to fondle his non-consensual sisters (since they were asleep supposedly.) Perhaps if he'd been raised in a family where parents understood biology and sex themselves, that when their son hit his teens his desire to explore his own sexuality would have been possible so that bottling all that desire up didn't burst forth onto his sisters (so to speak.)
With our country and culture's refusal to accept teens are sexual beings with the desires every adult has, the fact that denied of the opportunity to express those feelings, a 14 year-old availed himself with the only partner he could, his own sisters (and another girl.)
In a country like Denmark, not only could he have sought sex with someone his own age, but in all likelyhood both his parents and the partner's parents would have been fine with it. Read a thing a while back stating most Danish kids have their frist sexual experience around age 10, and at home with the full knowledge of their parents. In a country where sex-ed begins very early, and sex isn't villified, kids going through puberty and having sex isn't remarkale. Compare that to the USA where sex is villified, sex-ed all but non-existant and we go freaking nuts when young teens get caught having sex or exhibiting any sexual interest.
In every animal but our own, we describe an animal that can reproduce itself as 'sexually mature.' In humans, puberty is the beginning of our species' ability to reproduce itself. Part of that is the body produces sex hormones (testosterone or estrogen.) The result is sexual desire. As repression of sexuality for Catholic clergy shows, repressing human nature doesn't work. It still gets expressed, the only difference is it gets expressed badly.
The real tragedy then with the Duggar incident isn't perhaps the act itself, but that the boy was so sexually suppressed so that his only sexual outlet was to fondle his non-consensual sisters (since they were asleep supposedly.) Perhaps if he'd been raised in a family where parents understood biology and sex themselves, that when their son hit his teens his desire to explore his own sexuality would have been possible so that bottling all that desire up didn't burst forth onto his sisters (so to speak.)
