I hope and pray she doesn’t go through with it, but if she does the only thing I can hope is that it does not traumatize her to a debilitating degree. It makes me sick to my stomach that a young person trying to explore her sexuality has to do anything physical with these sick freaks.

I’m going to sound like an old religious fuddy duddy (I’m a genX agnostic-leaning person), but why can’t young people just hang out i.r.l. for a good long while (and in relatively safe, public places) with people to whom they feel an initial attraction and see whether they want to take it further, instead of just jumping into bed with someone they’ve not even seen i.r.l.?! Anyone can develop feelings of “attraction” to people online who turn out to be predators. I mean they have entire TV series about this on the ID channel! There’s something to be said for the “old-fashioned” practice of just hanging out as friends to see if it’ll go further.