🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 2:56:51 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
> On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 8:57:02 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:32:32 AM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
> > > On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3:19:06 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Why deny it"
> > > >
> > > > Because it is not a historical fact.  Just as having a "desire for thirteen year old girls" is undocumented.
> > >
> > > Psst ... Pig Pen; one child is enough.
> > > "Pedophilia "specifically : a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child"
> > >
> > > > First off, he married his 13-year old cousin.  There is no documented evidence, nor have I ever read so much as a single rumor, that he harbored any desire for any 13-year old girls.
> > >
> > > You've already agreed that little [his cousin Virginia] was 13. And all the accounts I've read agree she was female.
> > >
> > > > Poe said that his marriage was not consummated until a year or so afterward, because he felt that she was not yet mature enough.
> > >
> > > So he told his close friends about his sex life with her. Have any of the juicier quotes survived?
> > >
> > > > This was not a public statement, but a confidential admission to a couple of friends.
> > >
> > > Of course not; publicly, they were passing her off as 21. He even had his "friends" lying about that for him.
> > >
> > > >  There is no legitimate reason to suspect that he was lying about it.
> > >
> > > Well, you haven't shown us what Poe tell his friends they did. Did she suck him off? That's sex, but not "consummation". Or just give him hand jobs? That's not even sex. So if that's all they did, he wouldn't have been lying.
> > >
> > > <Pig Pen's smear job of another poet snipped>
> >
> > Corrected name to "his cousin Virginia".
>
> Thanks; since it's on wikipedia, and can be verified elsewhere, there's no point in debating that - except to sidestep the fact that Poe was a MAP.

And now they're off on "how long" I've been using Google Search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Google_Search

:)