Summertime and the pickings for news stories are slim! Yesterday I saw a story about a strip club sending strippers out to a golf course to do lap dances in golf carts. The newscaster pretended to be mortified. Same story here about the ********* who likes to photograph little girls in non-sexual activity and write about his fantasies on his blog. The guy has no criminal record. Going to Latin America is not a crime, strolling around a public playground is not a crime, and posting pictures of little girls playing in a sandbox is also not a crime. I'm sure the soccer moms will figure out a way to make it a crime.

The only newsworthy story here is how a non-criminal is being treated like he is a criminal. Maybe what he is doing is attempting to "handle" his sickness in a way that works for him and harms no child? I don't begin to understand pedophilia, but I do understand how scared we are of sex, including sexual thoughts, in this culture.

Can we find a real problem and deal with that first? Perhaps we can start with why Americans treat sex like some evil plot instead of as the source of great joy and pleasure it can be?