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In reply to the discussion: So I have a story for you: [View all]betsuni
(25,476 posts)57. I saw "Eyes Wide Shut" a few days ago and can't stop thinking about it.
There's so much in the movie I don't understand. It's bugging me.
On the one hand, I think: why would rich and powerful people go to all the trouble of a secret society for fucking? Don't they have anything better to do? On the other, I think of the real-life examples, like Epstein. Maybe they don't have anything better to do. Maybe at that level of power something happens to weak people.
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Sad to say that I agree with you that this goes on all the time, and it wouldn't be hard
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#1
Even as a young teenager, my daughter would not ride the school bus because the boys kept touching
judesedit
Apr 2021
#20
I remember it happening to me and my friends. I was very shy and it absolutely horrified me.
Treefrog
Apr 2021
#47
In my experience, most of the illicit sexual activity involved so-called Christian youth ministers
EYESORE 9001
Apr 2021
#6
My family belonged to a small town Community Church back in the early 60s.
multigraincracker
Apr 2021
#24
That's a very impressive level of concern your church displayed. I'm a retired teacher and I think
Karadeniz
Apr 2021
#58
That's always the Uglican way. I was thinking about that earlier today ...
eppur_se_muova
Apr 2021
#61
I have no doubt of this. I often wonder how Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive. nt
crickets
Apr 2021
#50