The Prophet and Pedophilia

       Romeo and Juliet

Everyone believes that Romeo and Juliet was and still is the greatest romantic tragedy of all time. Romeo was seventeen when he fell in love with thirteen year old Juliet. Doesn’t this make Romeo a pedophile because by definition pedophilia is when an adult or someone from the age of sixteen develops feelings (loving) for a child the ages thirteen and below. That is the exact border of when it is and isn’t Pedophilia. So then why don’t you hear about Romeo being a Pedophile? If not, then why isn’t Shakespeare accused of even acknowledging the act of pedophilia as a base in one of his most prized and acclaimed plays?

       Emperors of “power”

Roman Emperor, Caligula, was a wild man and there was actually a movie on his reign and life called Caligula made in the late 70’s. There is a scene where he grabs two boys by the shoulder and leads them away to his bedchamber saying “We must love each other”. Gemellus, who was also one of the boys and his cousin, historians have said, was seventeen years old. Apparently old enough to commit homosexual acts. But the other boy was younger.

Pope Alexander VI had sexual affairs with his daughter and she actually had kids for him. I know it’s impossible which means he wasn’t her real father. Even though, he was her step- father, which still doesn't make it right.