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I seem to remember it was a lot more rare to hear about when I was a young man. Is this stuff on the rise or what? And why? Are we becoming such a sexually expressive society that its driving perversion like this to increasing levels? When I was a kid, we rode our bikes, by ourselves, all over town and mom and dad never worried about us. Now, parents sweat bullits if the kid even plays outside their own house. No wonder parents are ok with their kids spending all their time inside watching brain sucking machines.



Our parents knew their neighbors and they knew ours. If there was any inkling of impropriety, our fathers would take matters into thier own hands. Most of us were just warned not to venture outside our own neighborhood. Now, we're too self involved and barely know our own neighbors. That works to allow the perverts to fearlessly live among us.

I finally joined Facebook after I retired and follow a couple of forums. The most interesting one is the one by kids who grew up in my neighborhood in the 50's & 60's. I always knew the adults spent a lot of time socializing at the club & pool, but I never realized the amount of behind-the-scenes involvement geared toward keeping us kids safe.

Sad to say, but it no longer exists here either.