It would be a wonderful thing if this were actually shocking:

Judge William Voy's first defendant of the day is a baby-faced girl who has just turned 13.

She also just violated probation on prostitution charges, having run away again from a Las Vegas group home and gotten arrested in Los Angeles -- for prostitution.

"The police officer just picked me up for no reason," she says.

The girl smiles sweetly at Voy and comes across as perfectly comfortable, thank you, in her detention center-issued purple sweatshirt and handcuffs.

"I don't know if I believe you at this point," Voy tells her.

Welcome to teen prostitution court, Voy's standing once-a-week appointment with various young girls caught up in something very grown-up and ugly.

Grown up and ugly? Well, I can see the ugly part - but what is so grown up about teen sex? Isn't it - or, at least, shouldn't it be - that adults are responsible members of society who choose the right thing, at least a majority of the time? What sort of adult is it who pays a 13 year old for sex? Do adults wish to be catagorised in a group with a person who has sex with kids? Hardly - and yet, we are. By choice - by positive, we-really-want-to-be-like-this choice.

Now, kudos to Judge Voy - he's trying to find a way to help these poor girls; working out plans to have a place built for them, working on getting land for a site...doing, in short, those corporeal works of mercy we are supposed to do when confronted with the suffering. But, in the end and in the larger sense, Judge Voy - and those really wonderful people who are helping him in this effort - are spinning their wheels. To be sure, they will save some of these girls - years hence, there will be strong, responsible women who will be contributing mightily to our society and they (and we, as a society) will owe a debt of gratitude to Voy and others who took those first steps. But the problem isn't girls having sex for money - the problem isn't even, actually, a lack of mercy on the part of people who can help such girls...the problem is societal. We want this sort of thing to happen, and so it does.

Want it? How so, goes the question? Because people always get what they ask for - "ask and it shall be given" doesn't just apply to good things; it is a universal about human society. This doesn't mean, of course, that we get it exactly as we expect - but we will, without fail, always get what we ask for. And what we have been asking for - for decadas! - is to have child prostitutes roaming our streets.

To be sure, there wasn't someone back in 1968 saying, "hey, it'd be cool to have teenaged whores", but there were people over the years asking for the followinig:

1. Young girls to be dressed in clothes suited to a whore.

2. Young girls to be taught by mass media that their sexual desirability is the measure of their worth.

3. Young people being taught that pre-marital sex is liberating.

4. Young people being taught that sex is ok as long as you use "protection".

5. Men being taught that their strongest sexual urges are the measure of their worth, and must be satisfied in order to be healthy.

6. The whole of society allowing pornography to just flood into popular culture, including and most especially those parts of popular culture targeted by children 12-19 years old.

7. The whole of society going on a divorce binge, often for the most trivial of reasons, thus breaking down that strong family unit which is the only sure means of civilizing the young, and protecting them from the predators who would exploit them.

8. Relentless propaganda that pre-marital sexual purity is not only impossible, but foolish and counter-productive.

9. The mainstreaming of prostitution where we call the poor victims "sex workers" and tell ourselves that people choose to be whores, and so its ok.

We've asked for all of this, and we've got just what we asked for. Teenaged prostitution is just one of the many things we've asked for. We've also asked for massive illegitimacy; widespread sexually transmitted disease; vastly increased teen suicide; vastly increased teen criminality...and just so long as we keep asking for it, we're going to keep getting these and a dozen other gut-wrenching social pathologies. The solution, dear people, is to stop asking for it - stop, as it were, asking to be punched in the gut repeatedly.

In the grand sweep of history, this is the degenerate end of all those liberal/left hopes and dreams which emerged in the so-called "enlightenment" of the 18th century. It was the belief of those people that by pure reason we could work out to a nicety exactly what needed to be done - and first and foremost in this effort was the jettisoning of all those social and moral restraints supported by Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church in particular. The stunning ignorance - of history and human nature - of the elightenment philosphers ensured that their efforts would ultimate result in disaster. Sophomoric egoists, they presumed that if they hadn't thought of it, it must be contemptible and unworthy of support and while they never imagined a world of teen prostitutes, it was their errosion of morality which eventuated, 350 years later, in a judge trying to figure out what to do with child whores.

C.S. Lewis once opined that if you've made a wrong turning, the only way to "progress" is to turn 'round and go back to where you messed up, and change your decision from that point. If we really wish to be "progressive" - if, that is, we really wish to make things better generation after generation - then we're going to have to go back; we're going to have to jettison a great deal of nosense we've picked up in modern times, and humbly place ourselves at the feet of ancient wisdom, and learn our lessons properly.

Before dimwitted lefties start in on it - no, I don't want women barefoot and pregnant. No one ever did. No, I don't want to bring back slavery - the last great, purely Christian effort in our society was the end of slavery. No, I don't want people to be taught the world is flat - no one believed it back then, so why should anyone want to believe it now? As you can see, a lot of the objections to a return to sanity are based upon a completely false conception of what the past was like - those who don't wish to correct our errors construct a fairy tale alleging that but for the rise of liberalism, we'd all be miserable. A neat scare story, and useful in progandising the ignorant into thinking that the best solution to teen pregnancy is to teach them how to use condoms, but not the sort of thing that capable men and women need concern themselves with.

We need to go back in order to have a future - if we want to have a society other than depraved (and thus other than utterly doomed to complete destruction), we have to recover our sanity, and then start to relay the foundations of our society on objective truth, not on the bizarre mental droppings of people who lack the knowledge and wit to sit in judgement on Judeo-Christian civilization. Go back and recover our lost inheritence, or die; that, in the end, is the choice we face.

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