Auntie Charo's Soapbox

It was on K57's news report yesterday, the report of a Rev-tv host being arrested for sexual conduct between himself and a 15-yr-old, the man(remember, the charges are allegations) is 29....the report also appeared in today's PDN......this afternoon at a party, I had a conversation with a teenager who was upset with the information. He wonders how it is that innocence no longer exists. He told me that he has a close friend that's just turned sixteen who told him that her girlfriend has been sexually active since she was twelve years old. He was bothered that this man, if he was guilty of having sex with this 15-yr.-old should spend time in a jail, that he and others like him were part of the problem that dimmed the light of innocence...perhaps....
Perhaps it's the MTVs, the FHMs, the Victoria's Secrets, the Britanny Spears, the Madonna videos, the kind of movies that we allow our children to see and the lack of parenting skills that exist in the homes of our children.......there is no village raising our children..that the 12 yr-old has had sex is nothing new, twenty plus years ago I worked with a woman who had a daughter who had a classmate who was pregnant at twelve......
It'll be on the news for awhile because this man is on t.v. and if he has a wife or girlfriend, his lawyer will probably get her to stand by him and it'll all be forgotten in a few days and we'll stick our heads back in the sand again until some other teenager gets molested...with or without permission....innocence after all is already lost.