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Louis C.K., Roy Moore, and Hollywood's Sexualization of Girls

A film about a 17-year-old girl and a 68-year-old man. A lawyer in his 30s and a girl of 14. These stories are exceptional; they’re also disconcertingly common.
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On Thursday, as in which five women accused Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, the distributor of C.K.’s new film, —about a 17-year-old girl dating a 68-year-old man— that had been set to take place on Thursday evening. On the same day, published in which several different women accused Roy Moore, the GOP nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat, of sexually pursuing them when he was in his 30s and they were in their teens. The women’s age was central to the horror of the story: Moore, then an assistant district attorney, met one of the women, Leigh Corfman, when she was 14 years old, outside a child custody hearing; he told her mother that he would, essentially, babysit her; her mother accepted. “I thought, how nice for, of Moore’s offer. She is now 71. Moore is now 70.

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