Author Joel Williamson shared Elvis kept a group of three 14-year-old girls with him on the tour who were up "for pillow fights, tickling, kissing and cuddling when he was 22.

  • null@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    emotional and unreasonable

    moral panic took over and these things are looked at now as “a crime”.

    Ah yes, what a neutral and regulated way to phrase that.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think they meant people’s reaction to the idea that the past could’ve had a different view on it that we view as disgusting rather than implying it’s “emotional and unreasonable” to view criminalized pedophilia as a “moral panic”, but I’m not a telepath. That was just my reading of it.