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PCIntern

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Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:02 PM Apr 14

I wish to state something about sex crimes: [View all]

By way of introduction to this topic, I attended a small private school in Bucks County, PA named Solebury School. To make a long story short, there was a great deal of abuse perpetrated on the campus, a boarding and day school, over 70 years, including acts perpetrated by one of the four founders of the school.

Since I was at the school for grades 7-12, was very involved in many activities and athletic teams, had a family member who was a department head for four years, and was generally affable, I was selected to be the moderator of a private Facebook group which contains many of the survivors, male and female, of this potboiling mess. They required an individual who could be objective, knowledgeable, and understanding on many levels, while not having been involved in the horrors.

A Grand Jury was convened in 2015 and spent two years interviewing witnesses and perpetrators under oath. The report, issued in 2017, is horrific. If you would like to read it, please PM me.

What I wish to say is that all of these sex crimes: rape, incest, pedophilia, ephebophilia, coercion via blackmail, and all the others, are ongoing in every strata of society at a rate which is for the most part, inconceivably high to most people. If you have a frank discussion with almost any female, she can relate frightening stories about an uncle, a neighbor, a teacher or professor, a guy in a store or doctor’s office (including but not limited to the physician), or anywhere. Perhaps, luckily, nothing happened but it’s inescapable and noticeable to anyone paying attention.

When all these stories about Epstein and the others started coming out, I was not at all surprised and certainly not shocked. And it’s omnipresent.

I leave you with this: in fertility clinics, often times the male is asked to produce his sperm for artificial insemination. In the private room which contains in general a DVD player with various pornography videos, magazines of various types which include Boy Scout and Girl Scout publications, as well as teen mags. Think about that for a minute. Then consider how often the docs were told that the donor couldn’t get off on what would be effective for many of us so-called normies. And it’s all just OK with the staff and the docs. Business as usual.

As far as I’m concerned, this situation is one of those: “ Look to your left…now look to your right…” existences.

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Yup. I hear you. As a woman, I have my own stories. Joinfortmill Apr 14 #1
Same ananda Apr 14 #8
Me too. OMGWTF Apr 14 #18
WTF is wrong with men? Disaffected Apr 14 #22
Culture has just as much to do with it blubunyip Apr 14 #42
This leads to the nature or nurture debate. Disaffected Apr 15 #44
Imho, women can cut their losses by simply avoiding athletes. Some have taken allegorical oracle Apr 15 #49
Then there's the "nice guys," some wearing spectacles, smart, bookish, well-mannered... Alice B. Apr 15 #58
While I agree to a point... radical noodle Apr 15 #59
"Go for the guy wearing spectacles." TheProle Apr 15 #67
Prehistoric times? "Cave-man marriage"--- knock the woman over the head with a club, Jack Valentino Apr 14 #43
You might be projecting modern norms on prehistory. Buzz cook Apr 15 #63
Yeah, who really knows? Disaffected Apr 15 #66
Same here. highplainsdem Apr 14 #26
It was prevalent throughout the sixties and seventies too. Arthur_Frain Apr 14 #2
This was ongoing from the 1920''s through the 1990's and likely beyond there. PCIntern Apr 14 #4
It was ongoing through all of history and pre-history. It just wasn't talked about. Or the victim was blamed. raccoon Apr 15 #55
I'm sorry that happened to you. And also if it ruins someone's life it's not necessarily because they "let" it. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 14 #5
That's exactly what the "Me, Too" movement was trying to raise awareness of. Diamond_Dog Apr 14 #3
I never got that in fertility clinics Figarosmom Apr 14 #6
The most graphic testimony in the GJ report PCIntern Apr 14 #7
Assaulted by gay bashers? N/t Figarosmom Apr 14 #9
Oh no... PCIntern Apr 14 #10
I feel sick... AloeVera Apr 14 #27
Geez.. Figarosmom Apr 14 #37
OMG 😳 MustLoveBeagles Apr 15 #64
Collection at home was an option we used to create my daughter Soul_of_Wit Apr 14 #24
I've always said that it's up to parents to inform their teenage children BEFORE it happens to them FakeNoose Apr 14 #11
Absolutely... PCIntern Apr 14 #12
And then there are those parents who are shit. usedtobedemgurl Apr 14 #16
That's ridiculous. AZ8theist Apr 14 #20
Thank you. usedtobedemgurl Apr 14 #21
You're welcome. AZ8theist Apr 14 #32
I'm an old lady now, but... Trueblue Texan Apr 14 #39
I'm sorry 😞 MustLoveBeagles Apr 15 #65
And sadly that is part of the problem Lifeafter70 Apr 14 #33
And no matter the warnings, it can and does still happen. 1WorldHope Apr 14 #15
From the epstein files it sounds like many of the parents Figarosmom Apr 14 #38
Teenage? Ms. Toad Apr 14 #41
I still have a vivid memory of a friend and I being accosted by some creep Disaffected Apr 15 #45
Twice, in the 60s, adult males tried lure me within their reach. enigmania Apr 14 #13
So, is this an American thing? Is it a European thing 1WorldHope Apr 14 #14
Pedophilia knows no borders.. whathehell Apr 14 #29
It turns out that Grimm's fairy tales had a real purpose it seems. 1WorldHope Apr 14 #31
We largely read sanitized versions of those dsc Apr 15 #47
It is a human thing. Disaffected Apr 15 #46
If they Rebl2 Apr 14 #17
Pretty revolting, isn't it? PCIntern Apr 14 #19
Exactly MustLoveBeagles Apr 14 #23
Report them MorbidButterflyTat Apr 14 #25
And they're helping those freak f*cks have children! Trueblue Texan Apr 14 #40
This exists and always existed because it has been allowed to exist Bluestocking Apr 14 #28
For many years I taught women's self defense oberle Apr 14 #30
Since I was in high school (late 60s) I have wondered: Why do they teach boys wrestling, but not girls? Attilatheblond Apr 15 #52
"which include Boy Scout and Girl Scout publications" ??? progressoid Apr 14 #34
Same Sympthsical Apr 15 #54
I saw it myself as a patient PCIntern Apr 15 #70
Re fertility clinics Tasmanian Devil Apr 14 #35
References? PCIntern Apr 14 #36
While not even close to this level dsc Apr 15 #48
I'm not sure these are great examples. BlueTsunami2018 Apr 15 #68
my first two jobs at age 16 - TalenaGor Apr 15 #50
When I was in college I had a summer job with a veterinarian Wicked Blue Apr 15 #60
as an HR director, this chaps my ass TalenaGor Apr 15 #71
Sex crimes against children and women are the dirtiest secrets in this nation. ... marble falls Apr 15 #51
You are right on the money PCIntern Apr 15 #53
found a lot of stuff about the boyscouts and girlscouts. This one caught my eye for anyone who wants "sources" ... marble falls Apr 15 #57
I was not allowed to join PCIntern Apr 15 #62
BSA seems like a model scheme to 'groom' children. Your parents were doing right by you. I tried to join ... marble falls Apr 16 #72
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 100%. raccoon Apr 15 #56
Me, either. marble falls Apr 15 #61
Institutionalized sex trafficking has been going on for TexasBushwhacker Apr 15 #69
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