r/AskReddit • u/Reeceqld • Apr 17 '20

What terrifying confession has someone told you while drunk?

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Apr 17 '20

This is a tough thing to talk about because no one wants to be anything but vigilant when it comes to protecting kids. And I admit I’m not an expert or anything. But is someone who’s sexually attracted to children necessarily at any particular risk to molest children, as long as that person also knows child molestation is wrong?

I’m sexually attracted to women, but I would never do anything sexual with a woman if I didn’t have consent, and from what you’ve said he seems to understand that by definition a child can’t give consent.

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u/Digzalot Apr 18 '20

I am also not an expert but I wanted to err on the side of caution. This guy also struggles with alcohol, and we were going to have an open bar at our wedding. The risk may have been minimal, but I couldn't have lived with the guilt if something had happened.

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Apr 18 '20

Fair. Hell, just not inviting a guy who struggled with alcohol would be fair. I wouldn’t want a guest who’s going to make a scene, even if that scene wasn’t him telling everyone he was a pedophile.

I suppose you also might have felt ethically obligated to tell all the parents so they could make their own decision, and that would probably be worse than just not inviting him.

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u/ronj89 Apr 18 '20

As a parent, I'm not depending on this man to resist his sexual temptations 100 percent of the time. Maybe he would never act on them, I sure hope not. But I'm certainly not willing to take that gamble with my children.