
BlueWidow
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- Oct 6, 2019
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And I guess I'm going to keep harping on this for a minute just so I can make one more point. I'd like to play devil's advocate. I'm not condoning child rape or pedophilia or anything of the kind. However, the culture was completely different back then. Let me give you a scenario:Yeah it's pretty much confirmed. He dated her for two years when she was 14 onwards and there's corroborating reports, photos, etc.
I understand what you mean about entertainment industry being full of snakes. I don't go out of my way to look up stuff like this but i'm a really big LZ fan.
I just really looked up to Led Zeppelin growing up, jimmy page in particular, and it hurt me personally that one of my heroes was so involved in the sexual exploitation of a minor. There's also other stuff i don't like about LZ, like how much they pretty much just ripped off the black American blues canon.
But mostly it's the child rape stuff that bothers me. I still really love their music from a music perspective.
You are a famous rockstar and you've got hundreds or even thousands of women waiting in line begging you to sleep with them. Are you going to turn them down just because they're under age? Or perhaps they don't tell you they're underage. Perhaps they lie to you and tell you that they're 18 because they're desperate to sleep with you.
I just don't think this issue is as cut and dried as you're making it out to be. A lot of these girls weren't being raped, they wanted to have sex with these rock stars. I know that's not a politically correct thing to say now, but if you watch any video on rock 'n' roll groupies you can see that they did. They followed the bands around specifically for that reason. There was a group called the Plaster Casters that used to make molds of all the rock star's genitals that they slept with.
I'm just saying I don't think this was a one-way street. I'm not saying rape and exploitation of young girls and women didn't happen, but I'm saying it's not as cut and dried as some people are trying to make it out to be now, long after it is over.
Okay, I swear to you my rant on this topic is now finished.