• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In this case, I think it’s safe to say that whilst he wasn’t a full blown child rapist, that he clearly had an attraction to young boys that went much further than just fantasy.

    What with the whole Wonderland, seems like it, yeah.

    However… was that attraction sexual, per se?

    . Being a weirdly childish dude who wants to play with children seems way less worse than pretending to be a weird childish dude in order to rape kids.

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      3 months ago

      At the end of the day, we’ll probably never know and many people argue that he should get the benefit of the doubt unless proven otherwise.

      I think not only was his childhood repressed, but also his sexual development and I’d be absolutely unsurprised to find that his attraction to young boys was partly, at least some of the time, sexual.