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Have you seen any of these Dateline: How to Catch a Predator. Well I have seen just about all of them, theres been about 10 or so. How do you feel about them.

I think that it is pretty sick what they talk about online to these teens. It is really sad by how many they catch. Also the people they catch are people from everywhere; rabii/preists, firefighters, policemen, teachers, and today they caught a soldier who carried his gun with him. They didnt allow him to get in the house, if you have seen these they normally wait until they're inside the house before questioning them, but they skipped that! Because he walked with a gun with him. Its wicked sad. In two seperate episodes they caught the same guy, after that episode where they caught the same guy, instead of letting them walk free with the guilt of being caught. Now they arrest them and place the title of them as Internet Predator and thrown most of the time in jail.

I think they are sick. They are the type of people who cyber boys by prentending to be girls, while they really are 40 year old rapists.

Just the thought of it makes my skin crawl. To think some of the people I have played online for years with could really be rapists.

There's two kinds of pedophiles. There's the ones that have sex with 16 and 17 years olds, and then there's the ones that have sex with 10 and 12 year olds.

When I think of a pedophile, I think of a guy who finds a child attractive. Not a guy who finds a man/woman attractive.

I havn't watched it, but do they catch the 10 and 12 year old ones? Because that's just down right freaked up.

That is a defination of a pedofile.
Starcraft is full of pedofiles, just go to channel sex and ask for cyber. The first 40 that whispers you are probably 40 years old men trying to cyber with you. The so called "shims" are actually guys. Such sad people. I bet it has something to do with down syndrome or they are just plain stupid. Maybe they just cant get any girls.

They ought to get a cop to get on SC and go to channel sex and try to bust the pedophiles, but if you busted all the pedophiles on SC we would have alot less players.

Well they catch the poeple here by chatting with them on aol. They use a young looking 18 or 19 year old that says that she is 13-16 and use her to talk to guys online. They talk about sex and whatever else the guy wants to do with her, it gets pretty graphic. Well all of it is pretty nasty thinking that poeple would even want to do that. One guy today had ropes and duck take in his car along wit a box of condums and a penis pump. Well I dont even know what a penis pump is though I have heard about it. I have heard of it a couple times on this Dateline show. Some of the guys they catch are 20 and some are up to 50 and they travel many hours just to visit this underage girl for pleasure.

I heard about a Myspace older man who did something similar.

LOL

It's a device built something like a miniature vacuum cleaner, which you put over your genitals to create suction. The idea is supposed to be that this will cause more blood flow in that region, which will in turn increase the size of your genitals over time. It is also sometimes used as a masturbatory device.

Note that I do not know this from personal experience, rather I looked it up on Wikipedia.

Thanks for that wonderful discussion, and letting us know you dont use it! I think that there should more of these test to get rid of all these wicked sick people!

Kinda Sad tho because it still doesnt stop alot of them....Even when they know about it

Bull! We would have more players actually. The pedofiles in starcraft only hang out in channel sex and they never game.

If they only hang out in channel SEX why do they have cyber sex maps.

Ya this is why they arrest them after they visit the house to question them. This is after they caught the same guy twice, its really quite sad the odds of that happening. Shows he didnt learn. About 80% of them say that they have heard about the show and they all say they knew that it was going to happen but yet they still go into the house!

No one even plays cyber sex maps anymore. Only those strip maps and other stuff.

Allright fellas, back on topic. This ain't about stripping maps.

I think the level of attention that sexual predators get is inappropriate. Especially when some of them are given rehabilitation rather than punishment, as if THEY were the real victims.

Did you hear about these 3 guys that pretended to be a girl on myspace and got the attention of an old perv. They had their fake girl agree to meet him and they called the police, and the perv was greeted with a pair of handcuffs.

I think that it's sad that people need to watch their kids and see what they're doing on the internet because of the fact that sexual predators haunt the internet. I'm all for prosecution of sexual predators for reasonable periods of sentencing (not any of the six months of probation garbage) as well as rehabilitation because mere punishment isn't enough as many sex offenders offend repeatedly.

I've heard of similar stuff being done. In fact, in some places the police actually ask teenage girls to actively help them hunt down sexual predators by getting their attention on the Internet.

Personally I think it's not so necessary to watch your kid on the Internet so long as they understand just what's out there and how to stay away from it. Being over-protective can have its own problems, especially for adolescents- often, a parent telling their teenage kid to not do something is the best way to get them to do it as much as possible.

My step moms freinds had a relative who was jacking off on webcams to 16 year old girls and was caught and was asking them for bail. The family was disgusted with him and he is getting over 2 years in jail. I don't feel sorry for him his wife does not (how sad he does that when he has a wife) and his family does not. The fact is people should know from society that things like that are wrong. The bible is against pedophiles and gay's and even human nature can tell you it's wrong. When it comes to 16 year old women and older men I don't think I can find a spot in the bible were its against that, but those were olden days . How do we get people like that off the internet?

I just dont see how someone could find an evil great enough to do this. Its just so wrong, how could someone feel okay about having sex with a 13 year old girl when your in your 30's or 40's?

I'm not saying I agree with the pedos, but there's something alluring about the "forbidden fruit". Everybody's got something they want but know they shouldn't have, and thats how it is for those pervs. They don't think its right, but they still want it really bad. It sort of like "Catholic Guilt", wherin the sinner doesn't feel guilty because he's done something wrong, he feels guilty because he wants to do it again.

So like someone that does drugs, they know its bad and agre that it ruins their life and when they arent craving it they say it is so bad. Then they need it and do it anyway.

Yea, I'd say it has a lot in common with addiction. Although addiction is a little more involuntary. The whole catholic guilt thing is sort of like the kid that stole and got in trouble, but can't shake the urge to do it again. They don't usually feel remorse for the individual crimes they commit, but rather they feel bad about themselves because they don't want to stop, and they know they should. Addiction has to do with the body creating a need for a certain substance (such as drugs, adrenaline, dopamine, etc) and suffering when it doesn't get what it wants.

Here's the problem with the NBC Dateline which deals with pedophiles. Say that the pedophile has been watching this on T.V. and knows that the girl is really an adult. So he's eventually caught by the NBC decoy. He goes to the house and out comes Brian Williams who gives the whole "you're a pedophile and you should be ashamed and arrested" speech. What if that pedophile states to him that there is nothing wrong with what he did because he was aware of the decoy being an adult? Would he get away free?

Because they are told that the decoy is younger, they think they are coming to a 13 to 16 year old girl, they dont know that she is really over age. There is no way to tell over talking to her!