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Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, have you?
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by Babel-Fish | August 16, 2009 at 09:25 pm
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The Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers that he had tried to rape a 15-year-old girl during his teenage years, it emerged today.Golding's papers also described how he had experimented, while a teacher at a public school, with setting boys against one another in the manner of Lord of the Flies, which tells the story of young air crash survivors on a desert island during a nuclear war.
I wonder how many other men would admit to such a confession about their teenage years. I myself remember doing some very heavy petting and getting close to raping a few young women in my early dating years. It is very hard to stop and here that word "no" when so young and experienced and yearning for the experience of having sex.
I am glad I listened to that "No" and I have learned over the many years in relationships that the actual sex thing has to be the wish of both parties to be thoroughly enjoyed and its best if both parties love each other or at least care.
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at 21:44 on August 16th, 2009
Of course no man will admit, they have tried to rape a teenage girl when young or have actually done so. But unfortunately this is something that does happen, has happened due to the quest of experimentation and the natural temptation sex installed into man and women. The young have sexual urges as teenagers and we are programmed to mate.
However our society has cultural patterns and laws to try to prevent the young in engaging in sex before they are married or responsible. Of which I think is the right things to do and more effort needs to be taken to get youngsters to realize the responsibility and about the mental anguish that can be invoked on the person they may want to false their sexual attentions on that leads to rape.
The fact that sex is geared at reproduction and should not be looked at as being an act of personal pleasure. Children need steady homes and parents that love each other and love them. Rape maybe pleasurable to one party in a moment of lust, but the raped party it can bring more than mental anguish but a responsibility they are not ready for nor may never really want.
at 00:50 on August 17th, 2009
Yeah - I think when we were young maybe a lot of men might have tried to push a situation too far. For most of us, it's just about learning the boundaries. Having said that, you should really have learnt that by the time you're 15. If you're a teacher and still doing it, then there's something severely out of whack in your character....
at 01:46 on August 17th, 2009
I fear that William Golding lacked a good sex education in his school years, one of my own fears going beyond the boundary was disrespecting the girlfriends and that of fathering a child that I was far to young to be responsible for. Respecting female's had been embedded deep by my parents and of course that "no" was heard very clearly.
Its only later in my life that I realized that women are not so different than men in their wants and needs within society. Perhaps that's because both my sisters died before I was born and I had no real icons other than my mother to relate to. Girls seemed like aliens prior to that point of understanding, possibly sex objects but completely beyond my understanding, yes I dated them but was never too sure of them. I think it was around about 18 or 19 years old that I became much wiser I had in fact scored with a girl that tried to rape me, lol But sensible enough to want to use condoms. She taught me a great deal about the opposite sex and went on to marry one of my best friends when I joint the British Army. It was sad to get the dear John letter but I learned a great deal about life and of course romance and its possible evils, yep heart breaks. Women reverted from being sex objects to being friends, companions and lovers if they so wanted to be. They had minds, dreams and opinions and could be great fun to be with.
Boundaries are learned, but some have no idea what the boundaries really are and why they should be there. Some men have very heavy sex urges, that over ride the boundaries and its within their genes unfortunately that's the nature of the human animal. Sexuality is a very complicated thing hormone balances cover a variable spectrum and its just not male, female and gay.
So in some cases boundaries are broken even when men learn them and unfortunately its not a character flaw but a sexual related one in some cases.