1. Introduction
Here in the United States of America and in other English-speaking nations, every time an elected official or even a celebrity is rumored to be hanging around a teenage coed who doesn't drive yet, the tabloids go ballistic and jump on that person's case. Even when a journalist is caught cracking a joke about someone sneaking around with a high-school girl, every men-hating pseudo-feminist showers him with insults.
Not too long ago, Tucker Carlson had a good laugh over a Lolita-style comment he made about a scenario involving a 14-year-old girl who wasn't even real, and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks blew her top about it. His comment was locker-room talk at worst, but The Young Turks wouldn't leave it alone. Here is the video below.
The Young Turks Make A Mountain Out Of A Molehill
In their video above, Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian throw the clinical terms "pedophile" and "pedophilia" all over the place. They use the term "child molestation" as a misnomer for the most part. However, not one time do they present any incident of any adult man having sexual intercourse with a pre-pubescent child under 13 years old in Tanner Stage 1 or under 11 years old, period.
Ms. Kasparian continues to rant and rave with all her clueless rhetoric about any man who has ever shown non-Platonic attention to an adolescent girl in the middle-school or high-school age range. Nowadays an American man cannot even exercise his First-Amendment rights of freedom of speech without being judged as politically incorrect or as sexually deviant.
Once upon a time back in the 1990s, there was a television series called My So-Called Life. The protagonist of the series was a 15-year-old girl named Angie, who was clean cut and well-behaved. Her best friend, Rayanne, was a rebel and was the same age as her.
In one episode of that series, Angie's parents were having a discussion about teenage sex; and when the mother said that Rayanne had been having sex with a 17-year-old boy in a parking lot, her husband nearly went berserk and asked, "Angie was having sex with him?!" The mother corrected him that it was not their daughter, but rather Rayanne.
Suddenly, the father's voice became calm, and he said, "Oh, her" as though someone else's 15-year-old daughter having sex in a parking lot was no big deal so long as it wasn't his daughter. His wife smiled, because she realized what had happened after he found out that it wasn't their own daughter losing her virginity. She looked almost as though she was going to say, "Men will be men."
There were scenes in this same television series in which Rayanne and Angie's father would be having conversations with each other and Angie's father would be showing more interest in Rayanne than his wife would expect a middle-aged married man to do. Rayanne also always acted interested in Angie's father more than she would likely have been interested in the average middle-aged man.
Why be surprised about a scenario like this? Rayanne was a girl who attracted older men equally as much as she attracted boys her own age. Angie's father was not the kind of person who would ever grab a toddler off a playground and violate her in every way unimaginable. However, Ana Kasparian seems to believe so. Cenk Uygur is completely withdrawn from reality on this issue.
No matter what self-styled psychiatrist or the like with dollar signs in his eyes does to demonize men who engage in this behavior, it has been happening since the beginning of time and it will continue to happen. Men are not going to feel ashamed of it deep down inside, because they know that society is not always right about everything.
In this upside down society we live in as Americans, a man over 21 years of age cannot even give a bouquet of flowers to a 14-year-old girl without being accused of being morally bankrupt. However, when the person accusing him of being morally bankrupt has a 14-, 15-, or 16-year-old son who talks about his rape fantasies involving a 14-year-old girl, somehow that young boy gets a free pass on it and his parents discount it as normal male adolescent behavior.
My stance on this topic has nothing to do with pedophile rights, and I don't support such a lost cause either. All you have to do is see the documentary titled Are All Men Pedophiles? by Jan-Willem Breure, and it becomes clear that so-called journalists like Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian couldn't care less about the truth regarding Mr. Carlson. They only want to slander him.
Now if Tucker Carlson had been joking about the forcible rape of underage girls or adult women, that would have been a different story. Moreover, what may be in his thoughts is not necessarily on his agenda.
Ana Kasparian did mention that Mr. Carlson made a bizarre remark about spousal rape being okay in marriages between adult men and adolescent girls. However, where is the news clip showing him making that statement? I have to see it to believe it.
Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur are merely looking for views on their YouTube channel, because they know how riled up Americans get about the stupidest of things; and they know that using misnomers such as "pedophile" and "pedophilia" to describe Mr. Carlson's comments will get people agitated.
A number of men do not agree that laws should be passed to outlaw teenage marriage, because they are well aware that men-hating pseudo-feminists are behind these same legislative efforts for the main purpose of incarcerating more men than our already nonsensical American sex laws have done. Cenk Uygur had the audacity to claim that 2-year-old kids could possibly be getting married in Tennessee because of a new law. Montel Williams sniped at a man in his audience for saying something outlandish like that when he was doing a talk-show episode about teenage marriage so many years ago.
Tucker Carlson does get to question the statutory-rape laws in our nation, because most of them don't make any sense anyhow. If a gang of 13-to-15-year-old boys raped Ana Kasparian and she got wrongfully charged with multiple counts of statutory rape as a result of it afterwards, she would be questioning these laws left and right. However, when it comes to the school of thought of men-hating pseudo-feminists, these witches only think about themselves rather than people they harm in their line of fire.
Tucker Carlson may have some opinions that don't necessarily coincide with the mainstream populace. He has voiced opinions now and then with which I don't even agree. However, I refuse to believe that he is any kind of sexual predator or sexual deviant, and, yes, he does respect 14-year-old girls. Below is a clip of an interview he did with a 14-year-old girl named Blake Allen so many months ago.
Blake Allen (Age 14) Finds Tucker Carlson Entertaining, Even Charming In His Interview With Her
In the news clip above, Mr. Carlson discussed a sensitive issue with a 14-year-old girl in a tactful and respectful way. He sided with the girl in a dispute over whether she should have to dress out in the same locker room as a boy. Did Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian watch this interview? Obviously not.
Mr. Carlson knows his boundaries regardless of what anyone in The Young Turks think about him. If he goes to the pool in the summertime and sees any 14-year-old girls walking around or swimming in the pool in skimpy bikinis, he's not going to sneak up behind one of them and rip her bikini top off. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian depict him mendaciously to have such control issues.
Pedophile-panic propaganda is eating our nation and other English-speaking nations alive. What is so outrageous is that most people getting caught in its line of fire are not even pedophiles by clinical definition. What angers me even more so is that now these self-proclaimed child advocates are picking on historical figures dating back to before the United States had even been colonized.
2. Pedophilia Had Not Even Been Conceptualized When King Louis XV Fell In Love With A 14-Year-Old Girl
What really got under my skin was when I came across a snide remark in the comments section of a video talking about Marie-Louise O'Murphy posing nude at the age of fourteen for Franҫois Boucher so that he could paint the Blonde Odalisque. Some historians claim that she was only 13 years old when she posed nude for that same portrait, but, of course, it doesn't really make any difference. Here is the video below.
Marie-Louise O'Murphy Fell In Love With King Louis XV Of France Despite Their Age Difference
King Louis XV was well into his forties when he first fell in love with Marie-Louise O'Murphy. He knew how young she was when he first saw the portrait of her that Franҫois Boucher had painted in 1752. Age made no difference to him. He wanted to be with her, and he arranged for them to come together.
In the comments section of the video above, a Christopher Aliaga-Kelly stated:
You could mention that her father was Irish, a merchant who moved to France, where Marie-Louise was born, that she attracted the attention of Casanova himself, but he failed to suc essfully seduce her. She became one of Louis XV's "Parc des Cerfs" or "Doe park", a group of young women specially selected because of their physical beauty and sexual inexperience. After nearly dying of an STD,Louis announced he would only have sex with female virgins! This meant he became a paedophile, as many of these young women were VERY young, barely (no pun intended) into puberty.
Wow! Would that have made Count Dracula a pedophile? He wanted female virgins. Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi used to play the role of Count Dracula in horror films back in the day. Would they also be pedophiles? Let's get real.
Mr. Aliaga-Kelly is correct about King Louis XV having once contracted a venereal disease. However, upon researching the background of the story of King Louis XV's love with Marie-Louise O'Murphy, it turns out that she was the youngest of his mistresses. Therefore, Mr. Aliaga-Kelly cannot be accurate about King Louis XV's other mistresses having been barely into puberty.
King Louis XV was never a pedophile, because pedophilia would not even be conceptualized for another century and a half after he met Marie-Louise O'Murphy. Therefore, it would not be fair to brand King Louis XV with something so stigmatizing that did not even exist yet back in 1752. It wasn't until 1886 that Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the clinical terms "pedophile" and "pedophilia."
Now, if Dr. von Krafft-Ebing had conceptualized pedophilia before King Louis XV had ever met Marie-Louise O'Murphy, King Louis XV still would not have qualified to be a pedophile. Marie-Louise O'Murphy was a 14-year-old girl rather than a pre-pubescent child at the time that she moved in with King Louis XV in his palace. She was well beyond the crayons-and-playground phase of her life.
Also, I learned in my French class back in college that 14 years old is considered to be the age that a girl passes over from childhood into womanhood in the French culture. I get it that Marie-Louise O'Murphy was Irish. However, she was born in France and had been raised as a French girl. Therefore, pedophilia would have had no role in her relationship with King Louis XV.
In contrary to what Mr. Aliaga-Kelly stated, nobody becomes a pedophile. They are either born that way or they're not that way at all.
I noticed that Mr. Aliaga-Kelly spelled the clinical term "pedophile" as "paedophile." Therefore, he could be British. The United Kingdom has an illiteracy rate that is 2 percent higher than that of the United States. Therefore, it could explain why British people use that term as a misnomer more often than Americans do.
Now, I don't want any British person who reads this article to think that I am bashing their nationality. It is the public school system there that deserves the blame rather than the students for the 16-percent illiteracy rate in that country. British people who get the right kind of education prove to be studious and diligent individuals.
Also, I'm a fan of the late Dr. Stephen Hawking, and he was British. His death was a sad day for me. I was only trying to make a point on how a lack of education can adversely affect people's ability to express their words with the correct definitions.
The words "pedophile" and "pedophilia" get misused more frequently than any other clinical terms that I know of. It's Pop Psychology 101 at best. For that reason, I always assert that the world would have been a better place today if Dr. von Krafft-Ebing had never been born and he had never coined the words "pedophile" and "pedophilia."
Dr. von Krafft-Ebing did more harm to society than good. Okay, I know that his name was never attached to any scandal. However, the way I see it is that skeletons wait to be found in his closet. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing. Like Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey, he carried the title of sexologist. He was a 19th-century version of Dr. Kinsey.
If I could travel back to the year 1885 and Dr. von Krafft-Ebing was standing in front of me with his back turned to me and his face looking straight at a staircase, I would feel tempted to push him down that flight of stairs. Then again, I must admit that I don't have a very high opinion of mental-health professionals in general. They make me cringe, and I always find out about them seeking to belittle people rather than help them.
Anyhow, Marie-Louise O'Murphy was one of those types of teenage girls that equally appealed to both boys her own age and men significantly older then her. Giacomo Casanova was another one of her adult male admirers.
Marie-Louise O'Murphy got pregnant with King Louis XV's baby shortly after she met him, but she lost the baby in mid-1753. She successfully gave birth to another child of his in 1754. It was a baby girl. As you can see, she was far more mature than the average American teenage girl inasmuch as she had gone through more trials and tribulations by that point in her life than most girls her age would have done so in this day and age.
Now, I'm not trying to persuade anyone into believing that King Louis XV was a poster child for Puritanical behavior. He wasn't. If you read into his background, you will clearly learn that this man really let the good times roll. However, he was not a serial child rapist either as self-proclaimed child advocates may misrepresent him to be.
During the French monarchy and the monarchies of many European nations, hedonism was not uncommon. Sexually transmitted diseases were the nemesis of these kings and the likes. I discovered not too long ago that the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria even had syphilis. He had a beautiful wife too in the form of Duchess Sophie. Therefore, it completely baffles me why he would get himself in such a predicament as he did.
3. Final Thoughts
Ladies and gentlemen? If you're searching for information about any historical figure, don't trust the comments posted in the comments section of a YouTube video if those comments come from a YouTuber who doesn't even have a profile picture or any videos on his or her YouTube channel. YouTube is so full of dunces and hotheads.
Don't get me wrong. There is a multitude of highly intellectual people who post interesting videos on that same platform like YouTuber aiartwork who published the video embedded above regarding Marie-Louise O'Murphy. I just wouldn't place much stock in anything that Christopher Aliaga-Kelly says about King Louis XV or anything that The Young Turks say about Tucker Carlson. With them, it's all for show and not for fact-finding purposes.
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