Star Trek Creates Sexual Perverts?
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You may or may not have heard of the claim by members of the Toronto police force that there is a connection between Star Trek fandom and pedophilia. That is that an unusually large number of pedophiles are Star Trek addicts.
Hard to see Spock, Bones and McCoy inspiring the slightest kinky thoughts (yes, I do know about slash fiction).
By now I thought this queer canard would've vanished to the same obscure by waters as flat earthers.
Nope, at least someone is still taking it seriously.
Here's part of Terry Sawyer's deconstruction:
By her own admission ("After reviewing a bunch of episodes. . . "), Ladowsky didn't exactly break a sweat developing a methodology. Upon reading about the prevalence of Star Trek viewing amongst pedophiles from Canada, she sets out to find child molesters in every narrative nook of the series, an almost surefire way to produce a preordained result. Ladowsky claims that, during her casual Star Trek viewing, she unearthed a seething nest of sexual dysfunction, all of which could be directly or indirectly linked to pedophilia. A more conscientious writer might have handled these alleged findings more gingerly. This is just the sort of observation that leads to parents clutching their children nervously at the sight of their harmless neighbor who reminds them of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Because many already see Trekkies as amusing oddities, her argument damns the show in a way that, say, the fact that many serial killers feel deep connections to the Bible won't ever do to the good book. ...
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Posted by: becca | June 12, 2006 08:37 PM