If I was caught in a love nest with 15 12-year-old girls tomorrow....

[zazen]

160. for those who don't get it, substitute "love nest with 3 yr olds" for the original comment

I agree, BainsBane.

The creep factor in his comments is that on some level he thinks a love nest of 15 12-year-olds is a verboten but desirable fantasy from which someone should restrain themselves, or else he would never use the term "love nest." He doesn't think it's publicly acceptable, and he's not admitting he's ever done it, but it's still something "hot" to joke about. Which tells me that he only disapproves of the social disapproval of it, not the act itself.

If he said, a love nest with "3-year-olds," people then (and now) would immediately wonder, why in the hell would anyone ever describe three-year-olds sexually? That to me is the tell.

Today, thank God, most people think describing 12-year-old girls sexually (unless you're another 12-year-old) is really creepy for adults to do. In the 70s? Hell, male profs were still openly sleeping with undergraduates without consequences. There was abuse of power by older men of younger women all over the place being sold as "freedom" (for men, that is). His comment wouldn't have offended as many people as we'd like to think, but it speaks volumes.