The human mind fascinates me. Capable of such great and wonderous things, soaring to unimaginable heights...but for every Einstein, Renroir, and Da Vinci, there are 50 million dickheads running around babbling bullshit, hell, I may even be one. Yet, every once in awhile some truly stupendous asshole comes along. Case in point, this weekend, on a domestic American flight a 47 year old man sat in his seat watching films on his laptop. Nothing unusual there, right? The only problem however is that a passenger sitting parallel to him found the film atrocious , seeing as how it was Child Pornography. The enraged passenger immediately informed a flight attendant and upon landing his laptop was examined and voila, baby piddling. This was in First Class no less. I mean really, you need to spend a couple of thousand US for some comfy leg room and then you look over and see that? Hahaha, I am afraid of what I might have done had I been the man who glanced over and saw that shit.
In my culture, we become men at 13, girls become women at 12, but in our day and age we have moved forward a bit, girls may marry at 15 or 16, but in the end, after puberty, age really is just a number. Culture defines mores AND morals. In many places 7 and ax year old girls are already keeping house as their mums work in the fields. By 14 such girls are much more emotionally and mentally mature than most 20 year old Western females. Males? It all depends on the culture.
Traditionally, Muslims for example- no matter the ethnicity, consider a boy of 12 to be a man. This is the age where Muslim boys receive their circumcisions and thereafter, in many places, their parents begin looking for a suitable match to contract a marriage. We Jews, as I noted, aren't too different in that regard. Indeed, I was married just after I turned 17, to a 15 year old woman I had never met. The issue I find abhorrent is the Arab and Muslim (they aren't one and the same) allowance of marriage between adult males and pre-pubescent females, say, an 80 year old man marrying a 9 year old girl. That to me is pure exploitation.
For any European junkies reading this, the Afghan opiate trade helps to fuel that particularly abhorrent practice. As in many under-developed nations, peasants receive loans at planting time in exchange for a set, advantageous price for the entire opium crop. If, as in the last two seasons, the crop is sparse, the farmer has no chance of meeting his onus. In such cases farmers are sometimes offering a young daughter in exchange to wipe the debt clean. So, in an-indirect way, VERY indirect- Europeans insatiable need for Afghan Heroin is helping to fuel a most heinous practice but then of course, it is the culture that actually fuels it because even without debt, most Afghan enthicities. Use their daughters as chattel anyway.
A particularly disgusting case took place in Cebu City a month ago. In the suburb of Cordova, on Mactan Island (where Magellan got his ass waxed by a poison arrow, damn, I hate when that happens), a young couple with six children ages 4 to 15, were nabbed for running a cyber sex den in which their own children were the performers. Standing off camera mum and daddy directed the little tykes to perform alone, or- and this is especially creepy- on each other...having the 11 year old daughter and 4 year old boy, well you get the idea I'm sure.
Police, actually the NBI, the Flip equivalent of the FBI, raided the home as five of the kids were doing their thing. The eldest, a 15 year old boy, was clothed and not "on duty." The mother freely admitted what she and her husband had been doing but swears she only did it for poverty and if they allow her to keep her children she will sell dried fish- though I reckon that IF she could do that now, she could have chosen that route before mentally and physically ducking up every child she has ever brought into the world. The only bright spot is that she was 6 months pregnant and that therefore they weren't able to violate that soon to be born infant.
Their clientele was entirely Western, which doesn't suprise me at all, unfortunately. The father said that they were merely doing the same thing as their neighbors, it wasn't at all unusual. Sadly, I know for a fact that he isn't lying. In urbanised slums, like Joysa's for example, many people run their own cyber sex nonsense. In fact, her lazy brother is supported by some gay guy, "Boobah," the name makes me laugh because in Bisaya the word means "Big Tits" (it was Rizza's nickname in school since large chested women here are considered ugly, unattractive, the word is a put down. I used to explain to Rizza that she shouldn't feel bad about it. Of course Joysa is even bigger but living on the edges of Metro Manila Joysa is much more aware that in the West it is a desirable trait).
Anyway, Boobah? He/she was the one whom I discussed a dozen or so entries ago. A norwegian truck driver fell in love with him/her online and left his wife and job to come to the Philippines, only to return home brokem hearted and a lot poorer to boot. Let us home he didn't catch any diseases in the process.
In my culture, we become men at 13, girls become women at 12, but in our day and age we have moved forward a bit, girls may marry at 15 or 16, but in the end, after puberty, age really is just a number. Culture defines mores AND morals. In many places 7 and ax year old girls are already keeping house as their mums work in the fields. By 14 such girls are much more emotionally and mentally mature than most 20 year old Western females. Males? It all depends on the culture.
Traditionally, Muslims for example- no matter the ethnicity, consider a boy of 12 to be a man. This is the age where Muslim boys receive their circumcisions and thereafter, in many places, their parents begin looking for a suitable match to contract a marriage. We Jews, as I noted, aren't too different in that regard. Indeed, I was married just after I turned 17, to a 15 year old woman I had never met. The issue I find abhorrent is the Arab and Muslim (they aren't one and the same) allowance of marriage between adult males and pre-pubescent females, say, an 80 year old man marrying a 9 year old girl. That to me is pure exploitation.
For any European junkies reading this, the Afghan opiate trade helps to fuel that particularly abhorrent practice. As in many under-developed nations, peasants receive loans at planting time in exchange for a set, advantageous price for the entire opium crop. If, as in the last two seasons, the crop is sparse, the farmer has no chance of meeting his onus. In such cases farmers are sometimes offering a young daughter in exchange to wipe the debt clean. So, in an-indirect way, VERY indirect- Europeans insatiable need for Afghan Heroin is helping to fuel a most heinous practice but then of course, it is the culture that actually fuels it because even without debt, most Afghan enthicities. Use their daughters as chattel anyway.
A particularly disgusting case took place in Cebu City a month ago. In the suburb of Cordova, on Mactan Island (where Magellan got his ass waxed by a poison arrow, damn, I hate when that happens), a young couple with six children ages 4 to 15, were nabbed for running a cyber sex den in which their own children were the performers. Standing off camera mum and daddy directed the little tykes to perform alone, or- and this is especially creepy- on each other...having the 11 year old daughter and 4 year old boy, well you get the idea I'm sure.
Police, actually the NBI, the Flip equivalent of the FBI, raided the home as five of the kids were doing their thing. The eldest, a 15 year old boy, was clothed and not "on duty." The mother freely admitted what she and her husband had been doing but swears she only did it for poverty and if they allow her to keep her children she will sell dried fish- though I reckon that IF she could do that now, she could have chosen that route before mentally and physically ducking up every child she has ever brought into the world. The only bright spot is that she was 6 months pregnant and that therefore they weren't able to violate that soon to be born infant.
Their clientele was entirely Western, which doesn't suprise me at all, unfortunately. The father said that they were merely doing the same thing as their neighbors, it wasn't at all unusual. Sadly, I know for a fact that he isn't lying. In urbanised slums, like Joysa's for example, many people run their own cyber sex nonsense. In fact, her lazy brother is supported by some gay guy, "Boobah," the name makes me laugh because in Bisaya the word means "Big Tits" (it was Rizza's nickname in school since large chested women here are considered ugly, unattractive, the word is a put down. I used to explain to Rizza that she shouldn't feel bad about it. Of course Joysa is even bigger but living on the edges of Metro Manila Joysa is much more aware that in the West it is a desirable trait).
Anyway, Boobah? He/she was the one whom I discussed a dozen or so entries ago. A norwegian truck driver fell in love with him/her online and left his wife and job to come to the Philippines, only to return home brokem hearted and a lot poorer to boot. Let us home he didn't catch any diseases in the process.