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Judith Levine pushing "pedophilia chic?" Now there's something trendy. After all now that gay rights is mainstream, there's the next minority to bring out of the closet. Besides who is society to stand in the way of true love or sexual pleasure? As liberals are so fond of telling us, "its a private matter," and its time to move on. Indeed the Levine contingent, led by Jocelyn Elders, can't see what the big fuss is all about. John Leo is right we should all beware of intellectuals defending that which no one in their right mind would ever think of condoning between adults and children. Where's the liberal concern for "its for the children." No wonder there's a move afoot to make child molesters the Left's latest victim class.

Alas, I see a trend in the making, towards opening up this kind of thing at least to teens. I was at a Chinese restaurant the other day and saw some teen-looking kids dressed up in some kind of creepy s&m/leather-metal type outfits. The girls had leather pants with big pyramid studs and spiderweb "tattoos" on their shoulders. One boy had this huge multi-strap leather wrist cuff. It all looked like it was for a theme party. Nothing technically "obscene" but it seemed pretty obvious what it was about. This restaurant didn't seem to exactly be a weirdo mecca either -- I go there fairly often and have never seen something like this there before.