Trek: The Cause of Pedophilia?

by CHRIS

Now don't get me wrong, I hate pedophiles as much as the next guy, but this article by Ellen Ladowsky outlining why almost all recorded pedophiles are self proclaimed Trekkies is just about the best shit I have read in a long time:

It's easy to imagine how the garden variety pedophile might identify with the half-human, half-Vulcan character who is bereft of human feeling, essentially neither male nor female, and living in a society where those around him seem to have a different set of rules.

For both Kirk and Spock, their true shared love object is the luminous Starship Enterprise, and it essentially serves the purpose of a fetish object – a non-human, inanimate detour for evading anxieties belonging to genuine intimacy.

This does not mean that watching Star Trek makes you a pedophile. It does mean that if you're a pedophile, odds are you've watched a lot of Star Trek.

I love this woman! But what does this say about Star Trek sex columnists? Seriously though, LOLbombs all around.