walto wrote:I'm curious how people line up on the Roman Polansky affair. There, too, the documentarian ended up being extremely sympathetic to his subject's case. He convinced me that the trial was a travesty, anyhow.
Totally different thing, IMO. Men (or many men, anyway) might be attracted to young women (not talking about children, here. I mean post-pubescent) but, in the society that we've grown up in, it's not okay to have sex with them. This has been well established and we all were taught to know better. Based on what we know, Polansky was guilty of statutory rape and rape in general.
Soon-Yi was of legal age and, to me, and based on the information we have access to, Woody is guilty of very poor judgement and betrayal. Those things certainly don't equate to rape.
I still shudder at the assertion that someone pursuing young women, meaning young women of legal age, is somehow evidence that they molested a per-pubescent child. I guess if someone has a desire to be with women or girls under 18 then being with a woman that's barely legal is somehow the next best thing in the eyes of some people, but
lots of men would be with younger (but legal) women if they could. To me, no matter how attractive a 20 year old woman is, she's a kid. She's not yet, maturity-wise, a woman. But lots of men (look at rich and powerful men, who are in a position to do so) end up dating much younger women just because they can. I'd agree that an older man who goes for young women is more likely to desire under-aged women than the rest of the male population. My problem is with making the assumption that any particular man that goes for a young, but legal, woman is probably guilty of child molestation.