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I disagree. Here's what I mean and the context

Posted by Speaking for myself on September 06, 2004 at 10:24:13

In Reply to: Do You Realize the Sickness Your Words Evidence? posted by an SG on September 04, 2004 at 13:43:12:

I personally witnessed a 17 yr old wanting to have sex with me. I turned her down. This stuff happens in life in or out of TF. It even happened to me a number of times when I had left TF, and yes, I did turn them down too. So I did not consider that itself a big deal. What WAS a big deal was the inequality - a 17 yr old trying to get in bed with a full grown adult was a bit too strange for me. What bothered me was the sexual conditioning she had received. It's another thing if a teenager has a normal sexual upbringing, and finds she is attracted to an older man, and knows what it means to get involved, and has other choices in boys her own age. It's another thing when you're stuck in an envirnoment where you're 17 and the pickings are 13 yr boys, or men age 29 and up, and your attitude is you're supposed to be sexually active or it means you are not a good servant of the Lord.

That TF created an over-sexualized environment bothered me most. But this stuff crept in on me. When I finally realized the impact of the Mo letters would have on 'minors' it was when a 14 yr old girl propositioned me in front of my wife. I was shócked, looked at everone around me, and almost barfed when I saw how normal the parents thought that was. About that time I decided it was time to leave, but it took a while before I could.

Why I put minors in quote marks was, these were teenagers, and I see that kind of thing, teenage girls wanting sex with older men happening all the time, outside of TF. I wasn't that old, in my 20's, but it still upset me. But I never saw anything like the Davidito book being practiced on any child, 3 yrs old, 6 yrs old, etc.

Had I seen actual sexual abuse of children, I wouldn't have stood for it. I would have grabbed my kids and run, and called the police. Seriously.

I got out before the institutionalized torture and systematic mind and body rape of SGs began. I don't think I even read the Mene letters, even though I saw them.