Yesterday morning TMZ reported that troubled former New York Giants linebacker and Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor now claims that he did not have sex with the underage prostitute he procured with the help of a gentleman who now faces charges under federal child trafficking statues for kidnapping, drugging, and offering the child up for prostitution. And additionally, the condom found in the hotel room in which the sexual act was to have taken place did not belong to him but to someone else.
Instead, Taylor now claims through his lawyers that his purposes for hiring the young girl were purely masturbatory. No intercourse took place between the two.
You don’t know how much better that makes me feel because when I first heard of the complaints against Taylor, I was somewhat disgusted and more than a bit outraged. But now I’m relieved to know that he displayed such character in choosing not to participate in the further exploitation of this young lady and took his carnal pleasure into his own hands.
Man, Lawrence Taylor, you have got to be out of your drug-addled monkey mind. You just masturbated and that makes it alright, huh? Perhaps this latest claim, if believed by the court may result in lesser penalty, but that in no way makes it in the least bit better. In my mind, you are still a lowlife degenerate perv bastard.
And it dawns on me that you may have a daughter or daughters yourself. I remember a while back you were in hot water for not paying your child support. What would be your reaction if someone kidnapped them, drugged them, and offered them for sex to some perv-ish former professional athlete?
Or perhaps you haven’t spent a whole lot of time with them. It seems that after football you have spent the lion’s share of your time in and out of jail on crack cocaine charges and procuring prostitutes. You, and people like you, make me cringe, Lawrence Taylor.
And speaking of cringing,
This video seems to be making the rounds on the internet as of late. I actually came across it in several places before I decided to take a look:
Is it just me, or is this some abject foolishness? What is wrong with us? One the one hand, we claim to be appalled and outraged when our girls are exploited or otherwise misused, but on the other, we cheer and applaud when they are dolled up and paraded before us in hyper-sexualized situations labeled as harmless performances. A bunch of pre-pubescent girls gyrating suggestively on stage ain’t in the least bit cute.
And recently, I came across a series on TLC entitled Toddlers and Tiaras which features a number of very young girls competing in beauty pageants across the country. The girls were made up and glammed up to be damned, and wearing sometimes the very skimpiest of costumes, encouraged to strut about the stage in the most suggestive of manners.
That’s simply disgusting to me. And from all appearances, it seems this whole spectacle is for the benefit of the overbearing parents attempting to live through their children.
I’m in no way a prude, or at least I don’t believe myself to be, but there seems to be something wholly contradictory in our behavior. And I really hope that I don’t seem to be speaking to you from atop a soapbox. But from where I’m sitting, we cannot decry the sexualization and exploitation of our children in one arena while encouraging and applauding their sexualization and exploitation in another.
Certainly, the kidnapping and prostitution of children is not commensurate with these over-sexualized performances, but they do seem to be simply flip sides of the same coin.
Am I wrong? Am I over-reacting?
