Reply #33: I respectfully disagree on the dress part.... [View All]

[politicat]

Having been one of five sisters and having nieces, cousins and goddaughters of the 3-7 range... dress up is a major activity, and they pick up the "seduction" as you call it from the culture around them. I won't even call it seduction; it's playing and performance. I was in grad school at the time, working on my master's in clinical psych. I can guarantee that I then and now know the difference between a child who delights in the performance of dress-up activities and one who is being manipulated and abused.

I worked for Access Graphics at the time. I'd met the girl, both of her parents and I knew that social circle. I'd seen her perform live at a company party. She wasn't seductive. She was cute and she was a little ham. So are almost all of the five year olds I know.

Don't believe what the media showed you - the 20 second clip that they showed was maybe a tenth of one percent of everything that was ever filmed, and I can guarantee they went through those tapes looking for the most incriminating clip they could find.