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Woody Allen - Pedophile?

Woody Allen


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Usually just until the victim reaches puberty because they are not attracted to adults.

Oh, I've heard of cases where a man develops a delusional obsession with a child, grooms her and marries her. That certainly does happen, and there are many different levels of pedophilia. It is a complicated illness.
 
His own biological son says differently, and so does his adopted daughter, AND it shows his depravity marrying Soon. It is disgusting no matter how you want to justify it.

His son has only said that he finds it "creepy" that his father and someone he perceives to be his sister would marry.

He made no claims regarding sexual abuse or pedophilia.
 
Really, there have been cases where a woman's own biological father locked her in the basement when she was a child and had sex (and children) with her for years.
 
His son has only said that he finds it "creepy" that his father and someone he perceives to be his sister would marry.

He made no claims regarding sexual abuse or pedophilia.

Please, the kid is creeped out by his father's relationship with his sister. That means something.
 
I find it kind of hard to believe that he could have controlled himself for the full decade they were together if he was a legitimate pedophile.

Why would the relationship just pop up out of nowhere when she turned 20?



Playing devil's advocate here; if someone had an inappropriate attraction to another person as a child, but waited until they were an adult to consummate it, and never went after anyone else in that same fashion, why would that even be particularly wrong?



Pretty major parenting failure to say the least. :lol:

There was an old couple in our neighborhood who had an interesting story. The man was a teacher and the woman had been his student. At the time, he was young, just out of teachers' college and she was in high school. He did not date her while she was in school, but waited for her to 'grow up' and married her. They had several children and grandchildren when I knew them. It would have been a horse of a different color if the teacher has pursued the student while she was underage.
 
Oh, I've heard of cases where a man develops a delusional obsession with a child, grooms her and marries her. That certainly does happen, and there are many different levels of pedophilia. It is a complicated illness.

And? It's hardly "delusional" or an illness if the kid consents to marry them of their own free will after they reach legal age. :lol:

That's assuming that "grooming" even took place here. There is no real evidence to support that conclusion.
 
There was an old couple in our neighborhood who had an interesting story. The man was a teacher and the woman had been his student. At the time, he was young, just out of teachers' college and she was in high school. He did not date her while she was in school, but waited for her to 'grow up' and married her. They had several children and grandchildren when I knew them. It would have been a horse of a different color if the teacher has pursued the student while she was underage.

Exactly. As long as there's no inappropriate behavior, there's really nothing wrong with that. :shrug:
 
Oh crap! What was the name of that woman who was kidnapped when she was 11 years old, and was sexually molested and held prisoner (yet was groomed, so didn't even try to escape) for years. She was in her late 20s/early 30s I believe by the time she was finally discovered to be alive and being held captive.

Would we not consider THAT man a pedophile?
 
Really, there have been cases where a woman's own biological father locked her in the basement when she was a child and had sex (and children) with her for years.

And that would constitute legitimate sexual abuse and pedophilia which can be shown to have caused objective harm to the woman in question. This case really doesn't.
 
And? It's hardly "delusional" or an illness if the kid consents to marry them of their own free will after they reach legal age. :lol:

That's assuming that "grooming" even took place here. There is no real evidence to support that conclusion.

You don't think it's delusional to be sexually attracted to a child? As long as you wait? :shock:
 
And that would constitute legitimate sexual abuse and pedophilia which can be shown to have caused objective harm to the woman in question. This case really doesn't.

You don't understand obviously.
 
I made the mistake of thinking Michael Jackson was a pedophile, until I did some more research after his death. I am now convinced the only thing he was guilty of was being weird. As for Woody, he's another strange one, indeed. But a pedo? Based-on what I know and sense, I doubt it. Heck, maybe she is telling the truth. But, also... maybe she has selective memory. Maybe lies have been fed to her for so long, she sees them as truths. Maybe she's vengeful. I don't know. But what I do know is that quite often, children make stuff up, especially when the line of questioning is peppered with persuasive words and spoon fed logic. I know of a family here in Canada who were completely torn apart by accusations from children in their daycare. Then were molested, had to endure animals being sacrificed and were forced to worship satan. It's hard to believe anyone thought this were true, but this family rotted in jail for over 10 years until the kids, as young teen came out and said they made it all up.

A couple of this makes me weary of Woody's guilt:
1) When it comes to sexual abuse, it doesn't happen just once.
2) No signs of sexual abuse by a doctor
3) NO other accusations from anyone else
4) Seems to have a decent relationship with an adult woman

Put together, it leads me to believe that he's not a pedo.
 
Oh crap! What was the name of that woman who was kidnapped when she was 11 years old, and was sexually molested and held prisoner (yet was groomed, so didn't even try to escape) for years. She was in her late 20s/early 30s I believe by the time she was finally discovered to be alive and being held captive.

Would we not consider THAT man a pedophile?

The key difference here is that she was "kidnapped," "held captive," and sexually taken advantage of against her will before she was of legal or biological age.

Can you provide any evidence to support the claim that any of those things took place here?
 
20 yo's are not children

Oh, so you are claiming that he just suddenly developed this sexual attraction to her when she turned 20? :lamo
 
I'm just looking at things objectively here.

She clearly doesn't think the relationship is "gross," or that she was ever abused. She was also well over legal age when their relationship was consummated, and they are not biologically related.

The idea of becoming sexually involved with someone you played a hand in raising (even if it was only a minor hand) is kind of weird and vaguely creepy. I absolutely agree with you there. However, given the circumstances at play here, there really isn't anything technically "wrong" with it.

There are plenty of unions out there far creepier than this one that no one seems to have any problem with whatsoever.

I don't know if he is a pedophile...innocent until proven guilty.

And I don't like to judge people based on heresay...but the OP's woman's testimony cannot be ignored either.

I just don't know.


However...I disagree that it is just 'vaguely creepy' that he ended up marrying his ex-step daughter...I would call that VERY creepy.

Not illegal, of course. But very creepy.

She was at most 22 and he was 47 when the relationship started...that is pretty creepy to begin with, IMO.

And she was the adopted daughter of his long time companion, the former being at most 10 years old when he started dating the latter...that makes it very creepy.


It also, IMO, lends more credibility to the OP story...since it is clear this guy is capable (and has in the past) been attracted to young females who are the children of women he is dating.
 
The key difference here is that she was "kidnapped," "held captive," and sexually taken advantage of against her will before she was of legal or biological age.

Can you provide any evidence to support the claim that any of those things took place here?

You don't understand the grooming process and how effective it can be, especially with someone who comes from a background such as this girl, and most of those adopted children.
 
Oh, so you are claiming that he just suddenly developed this sexual attraction to her when she turned 20? :lamo

That seems to be the case. There is no evidence that it happened earlier.

#10: Woody was grooming Soon-Yi from an early age to be his child bride. Oh, come on! According to court documents and Mia's own memoir, until 1990 (when Soon-Yi was 18 or 20), Woody 'had little to do with any of the Previn children, [but] had the least to do with Soon-Yi', so Mia encouraged him to spend more time with her. Woody started taking her to basketball games, and the rest is tabloid history. So, he hardly 'had his eye on her' from the time she was a child."
 
I have to wonder about HER too. To get with your mom's boyfriend? Pretty skanky IMO.
 
You don't think it's delusional to be sexually attracted to a child? As long as you wait? :shock:

I think it's definitely problematic. However, if a person doesn't act on those impulses, is still attracted to the child in question as an adult, and is able to maintain a consensual monogamous relationship with that adult, it obviously can't be all that big of a deal. :shrug:

Again, this is all a red herring anyway, as you can't demonstrate that he even was attracted to her as a child.
 
Oh, I've heard of cases where a man develops a delusional obsession with a child, grooms her and marries her. That certainly does happen, and there are many different levels of pedophilia. It is a complicated illness.

In a number of jurisdictions, incest statutes extend to relationships among individuals related by affinity. Such statutes proscribe sexual relations between stepfathers and stepdaughters, stepmothers and stepsons, or brothers-and sisters-in-law, and such relations are punishable as incest. It is necessary for the relationship of affinity to exist at the time the intermarriage or sexual intercourse occurs in order for the act to constitute incest. In the event that the relation-ship has terminated prior to the time that the act takes place, the intermarriage or sexual inter-course is not regarded as incest.

incest legal definition of incest. incest synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.
 
That seems to be the case. There is no evidence that it happened earlier.

Mmm. Yes, the one he married is the one he paid the LEAST attention to. :lol: Ha-ha!
 
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