Arthur C Clarke, author of "2001, a space Odysey" (made into a classic sci-fi film by Stanley Kubrick). was recently tried by an English tabloid for paedophilia. He responded with something like: "Sure, I had sex with some young boys". Or such is the urban myth. Anyone knowing more please email me. What is striking is how a man can lose trust from the public so easily. To read mind-trips such as 2001 you've got to trust the author to be of good intention, otherwise it is just a mind-fuck-(up). To accuse the same man of paedophilia is to distrust him. The media of course did not have the intelligence, impartiality, or courage to ask if he *fucked* these boys. Do they distinguish between loving and fucking? A look at page three of the tabloids suggests they do not. It is not sex with a person below a biological age that is unethical. It is sex with foul intent that is dangerous. Even consent is not a clear-cut issue. A documentary called Jabiluka (about the Australian government fucking aborigines and the land) reports that constant badgering of an indegenous land-owner to sign over land for uranium mining in Kakadu National Park led to him finally saying at a public meeting something like "I'm too tired to resist any longer". This was all the legal "consent" the mining company and government needed. When a 30 year-old has sex with an 18 year old there is often "consent" but the 30 year-old has so much more experience with which to manipulate and psychologically fuck over the younger mind. The younger *mind* need not be the younger *person*. (Witness Lolita - another Kubrick film :). Haven't *you* been fucked over at some point in your life? __________________________________ AndFlag@prop.taz.net.au An agent of the Undesirable Propagation Unit