Black Mirror : Pedophilia.

Pedophilia.

I have noticed the issue of pedophilia is a recurring topic in the series. I have finished season 3 where it came out quite a few times and just started season 2 and its come up in both episodes I have watched. What's the deal with that? Season 1 bring it up? For those that have watched?

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Hmm. I think it's only come up three times. That I remember anyway. It was a major part of the twists in White Bear along with Shut Up and Dance. And it was thrown out once during Hated in the Nation. Think that's it. What's the other moment in season 2? I only remember White Bear from that.

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In episode 3 The Waldo Moment. Politician, or whatever he was, has "correspondence" with a 15 year old and gets roasted by the news.

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Fifteen is underage and it's absolutely not okay for an adult to engage someone that young sexually, but they're post-pubescent by then. It's wrong, but it is not pedophilia.

Might be ephebophilia, depending how old the kid looks. If they look really adult, probably not, just a lack of ethics and moral responsibility. If they don't, then yeah there's some creepy twisted stuff going on in there as well.

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Just said the same thing to someone in the other post (probably you) ....
It doesn't matter what the law is, we know if we are molesting children. If a 50 year old man sleeps with a 16 year old girl then he is a paedo regardless of any law in any country.
We don't need any law to tell us what is morally wrong!

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No, pedophilia is specifically attraction to the prepubescent. That's a word with a very specific meaning. In your example, he's very wrong, what he did is immoral and just plain rotten, but it isn't pedophilia.

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Okay, maybe I used the wrong word, this doesn't change the fact that an old man ?? sleeeping with a child ? is wrong though. I think pretty much anyone can agree that someone under the age of sixteen or maybe even eighteen is still a child regardless of how grown up they are!
We do know that Kenny is a paedo though as they showed us at the start the age of the girls he is interested in.
There is a few sick people on this board that try to justify what Kenny did, I however don't think there is any punishment severe enough for people like Kenny, even death! ?
I think people that claim to only watch child ? pornography are in the same league as actuall molesters, give them the oppertunity and the belief they can get away with it and I'm pretty sure they would take it!

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The ?'s were supposed to be pictures but ended up as ?'s for some reason?!

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In IMDb you can't post pictures, have to link to them instead. This is a very old commenting system!

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I'm guessing you don't have any children?!

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See this is the problem with folks like you.

You are saying that an adult male, in the UK for instance where the AOC is 16, has sex with a girl who is 15 years, 11 months, 29 days and 59 minutes old is somehow a monster but if he were to just wait one more minute then he would be an okay guy.

The problem is that you are saying the guy above is just as bad as the guy who rapes a 5 year old.

That attitude takes away from the severity of the second example.

There is NO equivilancy at all yet you think it is the same thing.

THAT, is whacked.


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The English press has been obsessed with the topic for a while now. That's probably why.

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It is unfortunate that the press is reporting such stuff but to suggest that this is a nothing event sort of glosses over the fact that there are a lot of [male chicken] happy evil people out there daily doing their thing should attract less attention is wrong. The disease [sorry its the way we were born] is on the increase. Worse is that nearly secret societies are being created.

With s03e03 the suggestion is that a form of vigilante activity is out there. The laugh might be that the police in this episode might just spend more time trying to catch the perpetrators in this sort of event.

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The disease [sorry its the way we were born] is on the increase


I don't think it is on the increase I think there is more exposure about it and people willing to hear out and support victims now ad many cultures of cover up are breaking that is why it seems to be an epidemic of sorts.

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Was 'White Bear' sexually motivated? I thought they were just sick killers who killed a kid, thou I suppose some sort of pedo esque thoughts must of been involved unless the kid was just a easy target.

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That's what I thought too...I don't remember pedophilia being a theme in White Bear.

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It's kind of a big deal in the United Kingdom because there's an ongoing paedophile scandal over there, so it's permeating into their culture. It's really a problem everywhere, but as Black Mirror is an English show with an English writer (Charlie Brooker), it's going to factor in. Also, it's probably the darkest aspect of humanity. That is, that we as mammals are supposed to protect our young, but for reasons that are not entirely clear to science, a handful are sexually arounsed by harming young people.

Honestly it really only came up in "Shut Up and Dance" (S03E03). I don't think it was part of "White Bear" (S02E02). I don't recall about "White Christmas" (S02E04). In "White Bear" it was just a murder thing, and the village did this experimental punishment. All we know is a child was killed. If there was sex involved, I don't think that was given by the show. I did not get that from it.

As for the whole "does 16 count" debate, it's really beside the point. Technically paedophilia, by definition, is attraction to prepubescent children, though generally it refers to any attraction to or sexual assault against any underage persons. Ephebophilia is an attraction to people who have reached puberty age but are still immature emotionally. It's a different paraphilia. Whether it's just as bad or not, I believe, is irrelevant to the discussion. I offer no opinion on this, only clarifying the facts as laid out by the dictionary.

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White bear had a Myra Hindley/Ian Brady spin about it.
They also recorded the molestation and torture of a little girl.

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What molestation?

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The boyfriend sexual tortured the little girl and filmed it which is exactly what Myra Hindley and Ian Brady did

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I don't remember that ever being implied in that episode.

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"a handful are sexually arounsed by harming young people."

That is, a handful are sexually aroused by young people. The harm is not the goal, but a side effect. The end result may be the same, but if we want to find a solution, we have to understand the problem correctly.
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