The uncomfortable truth about the Epstein saga

[prawnstar]

Regarding the latest news in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, it's becoming farcical how many people (almost all men) knew him and stayed in touch with him after he was convicted, and of course they are now having to either deny, downplay or justify their decisions while condemning the man himself. The recurring theme is hardly new of course - old men discussing or engaging in sex with young women or girls has been exposed many times in the media in the past. In fact, it has become a cliche: Old men = predators, young women/girls = victims.

Here's what I've been thinking. The victims in this sordid saga would have less likely been victims if they were older women (ie. in their 30s, 40s or even 50s). Adults with plenty of life experience would have been better informed about what they were getting involved in, if they had been recruited by Epstein and his associates. They might well have consented to having sex (albeit getting paid to have sex) with men closer to their ages. But of course pretty much all the victims were teenagers and the vast majority of them were underage girls, and all these celebrities who queried Epstein about meeting them would have known that. It also raises an uncomfortable truth: If you guys reading this were rich and powerful and ever met Epstein, not knowing what he really got up to, and he offered girls for hire (regardless of whether you knew their age), would you have accepted the offer? Being a punter myself, I might have fallen into his trap if I was in that position of wealth and status. The reality is that us males are biologically driven to chase women of that prime age of 18-25 and it doesn't change as we get older (Leonardo di Caprio being a case in point).

I'm in my 40s and I want to stop punting, but the truth is it's very hard to stop checking out profiles of young attractive women on NZ Girls. If I go to a dating website, more than 90% of the women around my age just don't give me the motivation to want to initiate a conversation (assuming they would even engage, knowing the strike rate on those sites) and I have seen a lot of profiles of women in their 20s and early 30s whose cut-off age is 40. And while 'cougars' do indeed exist, I would safely assume that they are the exception to the rule that women of all demographics generally prefer men who are slightly older than them, hence why you almost never hear of 40-something women chasing teenage boys for sex.

Why does nature not make us guys feel less attracted to young women and more attracted to older women as we age? Can anything be done about it?

 

[Dee]

You've missed the point that in the case of Epstein and his clients (and people like them) it isn't really about the sex, it is about power.
The power to do whatever you want, and nobody will tell, and even if they do, nothing bad will happen to you any way.
And this is being shown to be true at this very moment.
Out of everyone who has been implicated in this scandal (which stretches back more than a decade at this point) exactly two people have actually paid any real price, Jeffery Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Maybe a third to a degree, if what Bill Gate's ex-wife says is true and that his continued contact with Epstein was one of the reasons that she seeked a divorce.
Everyone else closed ranks and probably used their power, influence and/or money to manipulate the situation quietly behind the scenes to ensure that investigations are shut down, witnesses 'go away', or out and out lies are told by public figures to even deny that any of the information exists.
The Epstein scandal is just proof positive of something that many of us already had a feeling that we knew.
That is that the rich and powerful think that they are better than the rest of us, and will go to any extreme to prove it (both in committing heinous acts, and ensuring that they face no consequences).
Essentially those people want to regress us to a feudal system where we are all the serfs (which at the moment we are all pretty close to being) with very little in the way of free will, and them the lords and masters (which they've pretty much positioned themselves to be) who don't even have to answer to the likes of us for anything, ever.

That's my thoughts anyway.

 

[Slippin Joey]

Money is at the centre of it all. The men who have the money. Then the young women who want the money. Then there are the lawyers with clients who are trying to monetize the situation. Venture to suggest if Andrew was Joe Bloggs his adventures would never have seen daylight. Then there are others who seem to have escaped any scrutiny at all like the Tangerine Taco. Money trail will keep it going for a long time yet.
Where were the parents???

 

[JoeyPonzi]

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There are plenty of people who earn $20 or $30 above the median wage, or own a small landscaping company or a coffee shop, and already consider themselves superior... imagine at the level of billionaires, who have already had enough of everything that money could (legally) provide.

It's not about sex... billionaires can fuck with countless women of all ages without major complications.