Talk:Child predators on the Internet

Not too bad for a atart! Could use a few footnotes though, I think. If you need help putting them in wikistyle just ask. human be in 21:12, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

I found one!
Over here Carpetsmoker (talk) 07:08, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Lol, nice. 142.124.55.236 (talk) 00:59, 14 March 42016 AQD (UTC)

Power imbalance

 * See also: Essay:Grand unified anti-feminist manifesto

One of the arguments for statutory rape laws is that there's a power imbalance between an underage minor and an adult. In a scenario where a 13-year-old is approaching an adult online, volunteering his address, and inviting the guy to travel across the U.S. to have sex with him, is there a power imbalance? What is preventing the teen from fending the predator off by saying, "No thanks" and blocking him, as opposed to saying "Here's where I live; don't forget to bring the condoms, and remember, I like strawberry peach-flavored wine coolers"? To me, that sounds like it's the teen who's really calling the shots and getting the adult to do what he wants.

The son of a friend of my mine used to brag to his mom about how he could easily find gay men who would pay him several hundred dollars a night for sex. In that way, he was able to afford a lifestyle where he wasn't financially dependent on his mom, and she couldn't tell him any longer, "As long as you're under my roof, you obey my rules." (His mom was a lesbian who had him by some random guy she got to fuck her so she could have a kid, which adds further support for my argument that dads are NOT as dispensable as feminists would have people believe.)

At what point do we have to conclude that it's really the teens who are in the driver's seat, and behaving in a way that borders on exploitation of horny adults who have no choice but to obey their instructions and pay exorbitant prices if they want to fulfill their fantasies?

People often say it's adults who are able to prey on teens' desire for affection, approval, etc. How is that a stronger drive, that renders people more susceptible to manipulation, than adults' sexual urges? It's one thing to bring up teens' physical dependence on adults for the necessities of life, but once we get into the territory of factors that make people susceptible to psychological coercion, it gets really iffy because some adults have as little self-control as teenagers.

Men&#39;s Rights EXTREMIST (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Seriously... 141.134.75.236 (talk) 20:21, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Have you noticed that it's mostly arguments raised by men that result in citations of Poe's Law, as opposed to arguments raised by women? When was the last time someone said, "Wow, that feminist argument is so crazy, it almost seems like parody"? Anything they say has to be taken seriously, as an actionable complaint against a legitimate oppression, because to do otherwise is to engage in misogynistically condescending "mansplaining." Men&#39;s Rights EXTREMIST (talk) 20:47, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * So the only reason why you made this bogus argument based on an anecdote and a bunch of conjecturing is so you could launch a sneery well-you-always-take-women-seriously-when-they-make-crazy-arguments riposte? Pff. 141.134.75.236 (talk) 22:40, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It wasn't the ONLY reason. Men&#39;s Rights EXTREMIST (talk) 00:29, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, there's subreddit called Tumblr in Action dedicated to exposing "feminists" and similar people whose views are so absurd they are probably Poes. Also,
 * "(His mom was a lesbian who had him by some random guy she got to fuck her so she could have a kid, which adds further support for my argument that dads are NOT as dispensable as feminists would have people believe.)"
 * After reading tons of this stuff in your gigantic "essay," either you're absolutely retarded - and I don't even like using that term - or are the most extreme Poe since Assfly himself. Lord Aeonian (talk) 07:24, 14 March 2016 (UTC)


 * The theoretical situation you suggest is even rarer than the already incredibly rare situation of child sexual abuse online. I'm not sure where you got this incident from, but, uh, purchasing sex from a minor is usually a crime. For a reason. But the youth are unlikely to be prosecuted for this. And the adults have a problem if they can't resist the urge to ask random kids for sex. 45.89.173.196 (talk) 04:52, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Mention of Entrapment
It appears that this article misuses the term "entrapment" as it is used within the context of the practice of law. Merely offering an opportunity to commit a crime is NOT entrapment. Rather, entrapment is accurately defined as conducting one's self in such a way that it causes a person to commit a crime that was not otherwise predisposed to having committed a crime in the first place. I would look to community consensus on how we should go about making the appropriate edits on this point. 71.91.178.54 (talk) 20:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)