User: Mr Explorer

I saw a documentary a couple of weeks ago called "The Truth About Female Desire". It included an experiment in which eight women were wired up to measure vaginal response, and were then shown two porn films, one designed for a female audience and one designed for a male audience. The former had a plot and the guy in it was young and good-looking. The other film just showed a rather unattractive middle-aged man having sex with a young woman. Most of the women in the experiment said they felt turned on by the first film but not by the second. One said she felt "grossed out" by it. However, the equipment showed that the women's vaginas registered sexual excitement in response to both films. So either the women were lying, or female sexuality is compicated and the mind and body are not always in sync.

"What sort of Irish person are you?"

I am not an Irish person. I am Welsh-born and of mixed English, Irish, Welsh, French, German and Spanish descent (roughly in that order).

Being loved and being found sexually attractive are not always the same thing!

The reason I didn't make a poll for people of Irish descent born outside Ireland is because they don't have direct experience of Irish life. But if you would like to know their views, why not create such a poll?

I think we should remember that underage sex and paedophilia are not necessarily the same thing. In the UK where I'm from (where the age of consent is 16), a man was recently prosecuted for having sex with a 14 year-old girl. He was described as a paedophile on the television news. While I agree that he had committed underage sex (which is a legal concept), I wouldn't say he was a paedophile. To my mind, paedophilia is sexual attraction to a pre-pubescent child. I wouldn't put someone who has sex with 14 year-olds (especially ones who are physically developed) in that category.