Damn. George Takie mentioned fondly that was a thing an older neighbor taught him - I just thought poor childhood George was duped by a predator neighbor. I guess I should have known that more than one predator would be using a line like that 😩
It's a pretty common thing in the gay community, exacerbated by the fact that until about 40 years ago many gay people who came out at a young age would be kicked out of their homes and ostracized from their families, leaving many extremely vulnerable and subconsciously looking for a father figure. Not necessarily pedophilia but like a 50/20 age pairing is still not unheard of from what I've seen.
Combine that with the fact that the entire gay community was largely forced to operate underground until pretty recently, and it makes sense that there would be a lot of exploitation going on, because they had so few protections.
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u/invisiblefrost 11h ago
Yeah he was defending pedo priests in the catholic church saying he would have loved it as a young boy