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PCIntern

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Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:02 PM Tuesday

I wish to state something about sex crimes: [View all]

By way of introduction to this topic, I attended a small private school in Bucks County, PA named Solebury School. To make a long story short, there was a great deal of abuse perpetrated on the campus, a boarding and day school, over 70 years, including acts perpetrated by one of the four founders of the school.

Since I was at the school for grades 7-12, was very involved in many activities and athletic teams, had a family member who was a department head for four years, and was generally affable, I was selected to be the moderator of a private Facebook group which contains many of the survivors, male and female, of this potboiling mess. They required an individual who could be objective, knowledgeable, and understanding on many levels, while not having been involved in the horrors.

A Grand Jury was convened in 2015 and spent two years interviewing witnesses and perpetrators under oath. The report, issued in 2017, is horrific. If you would like to read it, please PM me.

What I wish to say is that all of these sex crimes: rape, incest, pedophilia, ephebophilia, coercion via blackmail, and all the others, are ongoing in every strata of society at a rate which is for the most part, inconceivably high to most people. If you have a frank discussion with almost any female, she can relate frightening stories about an uncle, a neighbor, a teacher or professor, a guy in a store or doctor’s office (including but not limited to the physician), or anywhere. Perhaps, luckily, nothing happened but it’s inescapable and noticeable to anyone paying attention.

When all these stories about Epstein and the others started coming out, I was not at all surprised and certainly not shocked. And it’s omnipresent.

I leave you with this: in fertility clinics, often times the male is asked to produce his sperm for artificial insemination. In the private room which contains in general a DVD player with various pornography videos, magazines of various types which include Boy Scout and Girl Scout publications, as well as teen mags. Think about that for a minute. Then consider how often the docs were told that the donor couldn’t get off on what would be effective for many of us so-called normies. And it’s all just OK with the staff and the docs. Business as usual.

As far as I’m concerned, this situation is one of those: “ Look to your left…now look to your right…” existences.

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Yup. I hear you. As a woman, I have my own stories. Joinfortmill Tuesday #1
Same ananda Tuesday #8
Me too. OMGWTF Tuesday #18
WTF is wrong with men? Disaffected Tuesday #22
Culture has just as much to do with it blubunyip Tuesday #42
This leads to the nature or nurture debate. Disaffected Yesterday #44
Imho, women can cut their losses by simply avoiding athletes. Some have taken allegorical oracle Yesterday #49
Then there's the "nice guys," some wearing spectacles, smart, bookish, well-mannered... Alice B. 23 hrs ago #58
While I agree to a point... radical noodle 23 hrs ago #59
"Go for the guy wearing spectacles." TheProle 19 hrs ago #67
Prehistoric times? "Cave-man marriage"--- knock the woman over the head with a club, Jack Valentino Tuesday #43
You might be projecting modern norms on prehistory. Buzz cook 20 hrs ago #63
Yeah, who really knows? Disaffected 19 hrs ago #66
Same here. highplainsdem Tuesday #26
It was prevalent throughout the sixties and seventies too. Arthur_Frain Tuesday #2
This was ongoing from the 1920''s through the 1990's and likely beyond there. PCIntern Tuesday #4
It was ongoing through all of history and pre-history. It just wasn't talked about. Or the victim was blamed. raccoon 23 hrs ago #55
I'm sorry that happened to you. And also if it ruins someone's life it's not necessarily because they "let" it. WhiskeyGrinder Tuesday #5
That's exactly what the "Me, Too" movement was trying to raise awareness of. Diamond_Dog Tuesday #3
I never got that in fertility clinics Figarosmom Tuesday #6
The most graphic testimony in the GJ report PCIntern Tuesday #7
Assaulted by gay bashers? N/t Figarosmom Tuesday #9
Oh no... PCIntern Tuesday #10
I feel sick... AloeVera Tuesday #27
Geez.. Figarosmom Tuesday #37
OMG 😳 MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #64
Collection at home was an option we used to create my daughter Soul_of_Wit Tuesday #24
I've always said that it's up to parents to inform their teenage children BEFORE it happens to them FakeNoose Tuesday #11
Absolutely... PCIntern Tuesday #12
And then there are those parents who are shit. usedtobedemgurl Tuesday #16
That's ridiculous. AZ8theist Tuesday #20
Thank you. usedtobedemgurl Tuesday #21
You're welcome. AZ8theist Tuesday #32
I'm an old lady now, but... Trueblue Texan Tuesday #39
I'm sorry 😞 MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #65
And sadly that is part of the problem Lifeafter70 Tuesday #33
And no matter the warnings, it can and does still happen. 1WorldHope Tuesday #15
From the epstein files it sounds like many of the parents Figarosmom Tuesday #38
Teenage? Ms. Toad Tuesday #41
I still have a vivid memory of a friend and I being accosted by some creep Disaffected Yesterday #45
Twice, in the 60s, adult males tried lure me within their reach. enigmania Tuesday #13
So, is this an American thing? Is it a European thing 1WorldHope Tuesday #14
Pedophilia knows no borders.. whathehell Tuesday #29
It turns out that Grimm's fairy tales had a real purpose it seems. 1WorldHope Tuesday #31
We largely read sanitized versions of those dsc Yesterday #47
It is a human thing. Disaffected Yesterday #46
If they Rebl2 Tuesday #17
Pretty revolting, isn't it? PCIntern Tuesday #19
Exactly MustLoveBeagles Tuesday #23
Report them MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #25
And they're helping those freak f*cks have children! Trueblue Texan Tuesday #40
This exists and always existed because it has been allowed to exist Bluestocking Tuesday #28
For many years I taught women's self defense oberle Tuesday #30
Since I was in high school (late 60s) I have wondered: Why do they teach boys wrestling, but not girls? Attilatheblond Yesterday #52
"which include Boy Scout and Girl Scout publications" ??? progressoid Tuesday #34
Same Sympthsical Yesterday #54
I saw it myself as a patient PCIntern 16 hrs ago #70
Re fertility clinics Tasmanian Devil Tuesday #35
References? PCIntern Tuesday #36
While not even close to this level dsc Yesterday #48
I'm not sure these are great examples. BlueTsunami2018 18 hrs ago #68
my first two jobs at age 16 - TalenaGor Yesterday #50
When I was in college I had a summer job with a veterinarian Wicked Blue 23 hrs ago #60
as an HR director, this chaps my ass TalenaGor 16 hrs ago #71
Sex crimes against children and women are the dirtiest secrets in this nation. ... marble falls Yesterday #51
You are right on the money PCIntern Yesterday #53
found a lot of stuff about the boyscouts and girlscouts. This one caught my eye for anyone who wants "sources" ... marble falls 23 hrs ago #57
I was not allowed to join PCIntern 22 hrs ago #62
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 100%. raccoon 23 hrs ago #56
Me, either. marble falls 22 hrs ago #61
Institutionalized sex trafficking has been going on for TexasBushwhacker 17 hrs ago #69
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