Sex Crime

A difficult and explicit look at abhorrent behavior, especially depicted in various films.

• Why Irreversible is the most traumatic film I’ve ever seen
• It’s important that we calibrate our moral intuitions
• Victims and villains: what are the rules?
• #metoo, Harvey Weinstein, _The Morning Show _and power dynamics
• Understanding maturity and agency
• The burden of male sexuality vs our higher ideals
• Michael Jackson (Leaving Neverland), paedophile who courted boyfriends
• R. Kelly (Surviving R. Kelly), Aaliya was 13-14, hebephile who imprisoned adolescents
• Jeffrey Epstein (Filthy Rich), ephebophile who corrupted teens and the legal system
• Chronophilia and age of consent, ppreciating differnces in physical maturity
• What counts as mental illness?
• What is trauma?
• Codes of conduct
• Systemic conspiracies might be worse than specific sex crimes
• Spotlight and the Catholic Church
• Male sexuality is messy at best, and too often vile
• Victimhood culture must parse out differences in agency and responsibility
• Sex acts themselves are fascinating. How do we separate kink shaming from policing actual abuse?
• CONTEXT MATTERS.