The multi layered matter of Prince Andrew and Virginia Guiffre
Global media now being mostly digital after the century or two of print media, (the newspaper purchased, unfolded and read), this week for regular citizens again it is Prince Andrew in the news because of the book of, or by, or about, Virginia Giuffre. There must have been other people in the meetups and the evenings at Tramp, with that name and maybe Annabel’s as well being the two, or two of the, places where a young lady looking for the highlife and rich men would have achieved that aim. And why not, because that is how society works and still works in the world of say football, where young men earning a small fortune each week have no shortage of females seeking their attention. It’s just life, isn’t it?
Why is this so distorted the way Prince Andrew and Virginia Guiffre are taking the global digital media? If a young lady says she was sex trafficked then that is what she says, but surely there are so many more questions than that. One is the law, and what is the actual crime here? Under ‘UK’ law, the age of 16 is the legal age for consenting sex, and if someone – male, female, or anything in between – believes the other person is consenting then that is consent. If a two-week discussion was held then the moment would have passed, and that’s just sex isn’t it. Someone aged 16 is not breaking the law in the ‘UK.’ It is a different matter for gypsies, or travelling community under their new name, who still go on biology, and in biology males and females are in the reproduction or sex as leisure zone as soon as biology says so, and that’s probably about 12 or 13 in most cases, but ‘UK’ law does not apply to the travelling community. They conversely have protected rights, another anomoly of life in the ‘UK’.
In this fevered climate of anti-Andrew, and the triumph of some females who have succeeded in getting his royal titles removed, it has to be asked, is this from the American love of all things British royal, and Andrew is seen as letting the golden image down where the royals can do no wrong? Or is it misanthropy at the most public? There is another question to ask, that as Virginia Guiffre wrote that she was trafficked, which implies duress and an almost hostage process and from just the news headlines over the year or so that reaches those of us who do not follow such things in depth the pair of Epstein and Maxwell were up to some pretty odd things, and that is the question of jurisdiction. Sorry about that long sentence, it might or might not make sense (dyslexia). In the USA the age of 16 is not legal to have sex, so surely this should be a matter for within the USA on the ‘underage’ question. It has become an America-royal family news level, but the actual legality surely is not underage in the ‘UK’, is underage in the USA?
If the matter was turned round to also focus back down the line, even right back to the origin of the person, which is birth from two parents, childhood, etc., then the life of this unfortunate young lady was not very good all along, apparently. And in the natural world, the weak and unprotected are the ones likely to be consumed first by the predator (which in the natural world is a totally different thing, it contributes to overall health of the ecosystem, not detracts from it). In human society why is global sociology and media only going one way?
The unfortunate young lady apparently had a bad father, and when there is a bad parent (male or female it has to be said), that weakens life for thereon, and can never fully be rectified. So, the fact she had a difficult life makes the story all the more emotive. However …. one thing is missing, and that is the mother. Where was she in all this? And in this global interconnectivity, why could a call not be made from the young lady to her mother to say she was in difficulty, and could she help get her out of it and back to the USA?
News coverage has also been in the ‘UK’ in events of Rochdale, in a different level of social class, but these are all similar questions if seen from a wider focus. Why can the ‘UK’ and the USA not look the other way and ask what is so fundamentally and tragically wrong with society that these situations arise at all? It is a valid question to ask.