The Pope says WHAT?

[nudemetalz]

The Jerry is probably just grumpy he can't get it up anymore...

[Marnie]

Paedophile Protectorate Church.
Some of the nastiest people I have ever met have been devout catholics. Sorry if you're one and I offend you!

No I'm not offended....I don't practice anymore anyway....and frankly think that the majority of people who call themselves "Christians" are not to be trusted due to their two-faced hypocrisy and double standards.

The amount of people that turn a blind eye to abuse (sexual, physical, verbal, emotional and mental) going on around them and take the stance that it is none of my business kinda makes the society we live in very sad indeed....

[scissorhands]

I wonder if Silvio Berlusconi makes financial contributions to this mantra of normalising child sex

Must be great being a young teenager in Italy eh? Sell it, mine it.....

[BoristheBiter]

Give that man a prize!!

The Pope is even more antiquated than cassette tapes.

At least in their day cassettes were useful.

[avgas]

Its not good or evil.

Its the darkside.

[Edbear]

"There's nothing covered over that won't be uncovered, nor secret that won't be made known!" I read that somewhere...

[Marnie]

So would child abuse include a father taking naked baths with his 6 year old daughter and "accidentally" allowing her to touch his penis on several occassions while she says "look daddy I am touching my vagina"....... I have been informed by said father that apparently lots of men do this and that it was very very funny at the time that she uses such proper anatomy words......

All I can say is eeeewwwwwwwwwwww

[Crasherfromwayback]

I like little boys nine or ten.

I like making love to them.

[Paul in NZ]

So would child abuse include a father taking naked baths with his 6 year old daughter and "accidentally" allowing her to touch his penis on several occassions while she says "look daddy I am touching my vagina"....... I have been informed by said father that apparently lots of men do this and that it was very very funny at the time that she uses such proper anatomy words......

All I can say is eeeewwwwwwwwwwww

Depends on context.

But the way you have written it - nope - sounds very dodgy.

By context I mean having (say) two bathrooms and showers etc is still relatively 'new fangled' in the terms of human domestic living. When our kids (3 girls) were young in the 1980's we renovated old villas etc with 1 bath and no shower. The neighbours house was so untouched it still had a copper only for bathing and a zip for the kitchen hot water so sometimes sharing the bath was the only way (not when they were 6 though - more toddler age) but from memory I'd wear me budgie smugglers or boardies and hold up one of the twins while Vicki washed the other etc. Potentially thats still dodgy of course... but it was a solution to a common problem.

[Virago]

So would child abuse include a father taking naked baths with his 6 year old daughter and "accidentally" allowing her to touch his penis on several occassions while she says "look daddy I am touching my vagina"....... I have been informed by said father that apparently lots of men do this and that it was very very funny at the time that she uses such proper anatomy words......

All I can say is eeeewwwwwwwwwwww

I'm not quite sure what your point is.

As the father of two (now adult) girls, it was my parental job to bath or shower them. Having them in the bath with me as babies was a fairly normal occurance, and as they grew older they would shower with me. I let them decide when they wanted to shower by themselves, which for both was a gradual process up until the age of around eight. They both enjoyed having dad wash their hair, and the one-on-one interaction time.

Natural curiosity was dealt with in a matter of fact way, without making a fuss about it - no big deal.

Those who view such interaction with revulsion are perhaps the ones who are perverted.

[MSTRS:Me]

I'm not quite sure what your point is.

As the father of two (now adult) girls, it was my parental job to bath or shower them. Having them in the bath with me as babies was a fairly normal occurance, and as they grew older they would shower with me. I let them decide when they wanted to shower by themselves, which for both was a gradual process up until the age of around eight. They both enjoyed having dad wash their hair, and the one-on-one interaction time.

Natural curiosity was dealt with in a matter of fact way, without making a fuss about it - no big deal.

Those who view such interaction with revulsion are perhaps the ones who are perverted.

Correct. Unfortunately, they are too often in positions where they can 'do something about it'. To the lasting detriment of normal parents.
Then you have your Graeme Cappell-types...

[short-circuit]

Then you have your Graeme Cappell-types...

..........

[mashman]

I'm not quite sure what your point is.

As the father of two (now adult) girls, it was my parental job to bath or shower them. Having them in the bath with me as babies was a fairly normal occurance, and as they grew older they would shower with me. I let them decide when they wanted to shower by themselves, which for both was a gradual process up until the age of around eight. They both enjoyed having dad wash their hair, and the one-on-one interaction time.

Natural curiosity was dealt with in a matter of fact way, without making a fuss about it - no big deal.

Those who view such interaction with revulsion are perhaps the ones who are perverted.

+1... showered with my girls last night, the 8 yr old wanting me out coz I take up too much room.

[Shadows]

Where the fuck did they get Benedict from anyway. They should have called him George Ringo. We've already had John Paul.

[mashman]

Where the fuck did they get Benedict from anyway. They should have called him George Ringo. We've already had John Paul.

Ringo... too close to the bone perhaps