Sex and Ghosts

A striking parallel exists between the very real hysteria over child sex abuse, and the wholly fictional story “The Others.” In that imaginative fiction a mother is trying to prepare her children for their first communion by teaching them the wages of sin: the cruel fate of sinners in the afterlife. The great irony of the story is that the ethics teacher herself turns out to have committed the most gruesome abomination – killing her own children, though she may be considered innocent by reason of insanity.

In the real life hysteria of moral crusaders trying to protect kids from sexual insensitivity and exploitation, we can clearly see the crusaders themselves tormenting and torturing children every day for the good of humanity. The children’s blood is on their hands for all to see.

Just like in “The Others” the good lady doesn’t know that she only exists in the world of the dead. She can’t see the other world, the world of the living, until it intrudes on her world. The good lady teaches that there is no hysteria. There are only “the goodies” who belong in heaven, and “the baddies” who belong in hell, and it all depends on which side of the gory war you fight on.

In the end all crusaders must wake up to their own abominations. Stop trying to protect children by suffocating them. Let children tell you when and if they want or need your help. Don’t commit the same crimes as the insensitive exploiters when they interrupt and dispute what children have to say.