A sad, constant bid for attention

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION! Spanky is talking about how people feel on the inside- society can define those feelings as good or bad, however, that is not his point. Why is 18 a magic number? It isn't, and Spanky asks if crossing it might well be malum prohibitum, and not malum per se.

I don't think anyone is really having a hard time wrapping themselves around that, Hank. I may be wrong, but it appears that the consensus is that sexual feelings towards those who are viewed as children on a social level is malum in se.