Sex Crime - a podcast by Keith Telfeyan

from 2020-12-03T14:00

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A difficult and explicit look at abhorrent behavior, especially depicted in various films.




  • Why Irreversible is the most traumatic film I’ve ever seen

  • It’s important that we calibrate our moral intuitions

  • Victims and villains: what are the rules?

  • #metoo, Harvey Weinstein, _The Morning Show _and power dynamics

  • Understanding maturity and agency

  • The burden of male sexuality vs our higher ideals

  • Michael Jackson (Leaving Neverland), paedophile who courted boyfriends

  • R. Kelly (Surviving R. Kelly), Aaliya was 13-14, hebephile who imprisoned adolescents

  • Jeffrey Epstein (Filthy Rich), ephebophile who corrupted teens and the legal system

  • Chronophilia and age of consent, ppreciating differnces in physical maturity

  • What counts as mental illness?

  • What is trauma?

  • Codes of conduct

  • Systemic conspiracies might be worse than specific sex crimes

  • Spotlight and the Catholic Church

  • Male sexuality is messy at best, and too often vile

  • Victimhood culture must parse out differences in agency and responsibility

  • Sex acts themselves are fascinating. How do we separate kink shaming from policing actual abuse?

  • CONTEXT MATTERS.


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