Prostitutes and pedophiles

The Earth rotates around its axis, not around the Sun.

As usual, our Pope's words were taken out of context by a crude and over-simplistic media always ready to seize on and distort a story that sells.

While I'm no fan of the media either, what was the Pope's rationale for focusing only on the risk to male prostitutes?

The pope might sometimes sanction the use of condoms by male prostitutes, who presumably have sex only with males.

Instances of women hiring male prostitutes or "escorts" are probably rare, but they do occur. And there may be a few female prostitutes who cater to lesbians. That doesn't change the issue of the double standard for prostitutes based on gender.

As usual, our Pope's words were taken out of context by a crude and over-simplistic media always ready to seize on and distort a story that sells.

But I think this is actually good news, because is testimony for the importance of the Papacy in this broken world. Every time he speaks publicly he sends shock waves round' the world. Long live the Vicar of Christ, our Pope Benedict XVI!!!

For a mouth piece for an infallible deity, the Pope sure does stick his foot in his mouth a lot. The really sad part of this whole thing is that I actually understand where the Pope is coming from. Condoms are a sin because they prevent child birth which is part of God’s divine plan. Gay prostitutes are already sinners and living a sinful lifestyle as far as the Pope is concerned. Plus, they can’t get pregnant. So if they are already living in sin and they can’t get pregnant, why should the Pope care if they use condoms or not; in for a pinch, in for a pound. Of course it does seem that the Pope is more concerned with condoms use than child rape and molestation.

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First of all I feel sorry for those people who still need pope, rabbi, or ayatollah to tell them how they should behave in the privacy of their bedrooms. Secondly, these preachers and their God are always many phases behind the civilization otherwise how can they label one act to be a sin yesterday but not a sin today? Finally, they preach that people must avoid sin but these preachers have their God’s permission to molest and rape as many young boys and girls as they wish and then hide behind the sanctity of their God.

Actually, chastity doesn't offer 100% protection from STD's. Ask Ryan White about his blood transfusion (or sharing of needles through drug use for addicts). You can also contract an STD through contact with blood or fecal material (those wonderful people that don't wash and then touch the door handles).
The flip side, is that being 100% chaste would eventually wipe out said species, unless your special little book allows reproduction (under certain male goat-herder envisioned rules from over two thousand years ago).

Herb nailed it. There is really nothing to add. Wish I could add to this excellent piece de resistance but it can't be done. Best thing that he has written in a month. You caught my chuckles before I read the next paragraph.

I suppose it's POSSIBLE for a vegetarian to give good advice on what kind of steak is best and how to prepare it. I suppose it's POSSIBLE for a teetotaller to be an expert at mixing cocktails. I suppose it's POSSIBLE for a pacifist to run a gun shop and give knowledgeable advice on arms and ammunition. And I suppose it's POSSIBLE for somebody who has (presumably) been celibate for upwards of half a century to have something useful to say about sex.

But frankly, if I'm interested in a spiffily tailored business suit, why would I go shopping at Goodwill?

The Pope is infallible, you say...

The only 100% effective method to avoid STD spread is Chastity. The Catholic teaching on sexual morality covers Chastity. Chastity can be achieved with God's grace.
But, if you want to learn more and inform your opinion about the teaching of the Catholic Church, please refer to the Theology of the Body. You can Google it.

Posted by: GSeeker | November 22, 2010 6:45 PM
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Hah! Only in your perfect world where Catholic doctrine trumps human nature. An individual may, through choosing chastity achieve the 100% in the same way that if I never leave my house, I will never die in a car accident. But c'mon. Does everyone really live this way? How many people really WANT to live this way? There are risks to sex just as there are in anythuing else. And even monogamy relationships are not 100%.

All this nonsense is one of the reasons why I left the Catholic Church.

As Billy Joel once said: "Only the good die young." Because they never really lived.

The only 100% effective method to avoid STD spread is Chastity. The Catholic teaching on sexual morality covers Chastity. Chastity can be achieved with God's grace.
But, if you want to learn more and inform your opinion about the teaching of the Catholic Church, please refer to the Theology of the Body. You can Google it.

Great response by Professor Silverman. The only thing that I question is that human civilization, as we know it now, will be around in future centuries. One of the reasons it may not be is because of attitudes like those of the Pope. Until we actually start using reason and science to assist in making public policy instead of religious ideology, we will never successfully tackle the environmental and epidemiological problems that may extinguish the human race before the current century is up.

Idunno why you chose the title, seeing as how you hardly mention pedophilia, but since you brought it up, I think it's an exemplary case of papal retardation. If the pope were to disapprove of molesting children, he must do so on the grounds that pregnancy cannot result. So, maybe in that case, as in the case of a male prostitute, it is acceptable to use a condom. So, tell your kids to make sure the priest knows it's OK to don a raincoat before he goes to funky town.

Idunno why you chose the title, seeing as how you hardly mention pedophilia, but since you brought it up, I think it's an exemplary case of papal retardation. If the pope were to disapprove of molesting children, he must do so on the grounds that pregnancy cannot result. So, maybe in that case, as in the case of a male prostitute, it is acceptable to use a condom. So, tell your kids to make sure the priest knows it's OK to don a raincoat before he goes to funky town.