Since Ashton Kutcher has recently been calling attention to the problem of child sex trafficking and child pornography, I figured it would be useful to compile accurate information about this individual to help us decide whether or not he can act as a trustworthy advocate for the victims of paedophilia and human sex trafficking. Since some of the people supposedly fighting for the rights of children have turned out to be the very individuals covering up the abuse of those rights, anyone who presents himself as a leading figure in this cause should be carefully scrutinised.
Ashton Kutcher has made some statements that are consistent with the behaviour I would expect of an individual that sincerely wishes to raise public awareness about child sex trafficking, and are inconsistent with the behaviour of an individual attempting to divert public attention from this problem. However, Mr. Kutcher has made other statements that seem to point in the opposite direction. This makes it difficult to arrive at any firm conclusions.
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In April 2011, Kutcher and then-wife Demi Moore began a public service announcement campaign to end child sex trafficking. ["Moore, Kutcher: Join our crusade to end child sex trafficking". CNN. April 14, 2011..]
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Kutcher said that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery. For some reason, this very conservative figure was considered offensive by the Jewish newspaper "Village Voice" which responded to Kutcher with the absurd claim that only a couple of hundred child prostitutes exist in all of America. ["Real Men Get Their Facts Straight". The Village Voice. New York. April 14, 2011.]
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Kutcher claimed the Village Voice promoted child prostitution and used Twitter to request that Village Voice advertisers withdraw their advertising from publications owned by its parent company. ["Ashton Kutcher Will Destroy Newspaper Over Sex Slavery Article". Gawker. July 1, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-03. Retrieved July 2011. Xeni Jardin (July 1, 2011). "Ashton Kutcher bullies Village Voice over sex slavery hype-debunking cover story". Boing Boing. Retrieved Aug. 18, 2013.]
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In November 2011, Kutcher commented on the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, calling the firing of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno "in poor taste". [Nudd, Tim (November 10, 2011). "Ashton Kutcher Sorry for His Ignorance in Defending Joe Paterno". People. Retrieved June 9, 2013.] Shortly after Kutcher tweeted the above comment in defence of Joe Paterno, Kutcher turned over the management of his Twitter account to his team at the Katalyst Media company. [Shira, Dahvi (November 10, 2011). "Ashton Kutcher Giving Up Management of His Twitter Feed". People. Retrieved June 9, 2013.]
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Kutcher comes from a "relatively conservative" working-class Catholic family of Irish, German, and Czech heritage. Kutcher describes himself as a fiscal conservative and social liberal. ["Ashton Kutcher", Wikipedia.]
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Kutcher is a student of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism. [Ahren, Raphael (May 7, 2013). "Ashton goes to Israel". Times of Israel. Retrieved August 18, 2013.]
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On trips to Israel, Kutcher visited Kabbalah centers in Tel Aviv and in Tsfat. [Ahren, Raphael (May 7, 2013). "Ashton goes to Israel". Times of Israel. Retrieved August 18, 2013.]
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In 2011, his No Strings Attached co-star Natalie Portman stated that Kutcher "has taught me more about Judaism than I think I have ever learned from anyone else". [Mandell, Andrea (January 18, 2011). "'No Strings Attached' binds Portman and Ashton". USA Today. Retrieved January 20, 2011.] (Portman is a dual citizen Israeli-American actress who campaigned for John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. She praised John McCain as a "very moral person", signed a petition to Obama in support of homosexual marriage, became an ambassador of the globalist-backed 'Free the Children' nonprofit organisation [founded by Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger], raised money for Free The Children's all-girls schools in Kenya. I am not saying that any of these things are good or bad, or necessarily reflect on Ashton Kutcher. Make of them what you will.)
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In 2013, Kutcher remarked, "Israel is near and dear to my heart... coming to Israel is sort of coming back to the source of creation – trying to get closer to that. And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is really inspiring. And this place has been really inspiring for me – not only on a spiritual level, but also on an artistic and creative level." [Brinn, David (May 14, 2013). "Ashton says Israel is close to my heart". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved August 18, 2013.] (People here hold many different views about Zionism, but whether or not you believe in the legitimacy of the state of Israel one thing is clear: Israel is hugely involved in organ harvesting and child sex traficking. Even mainstream Israeli newspapers have reported this. It's well-known. One needn't be anti-Israel to acknowledge this reality.)
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equineluvr ago
His former wife, Demi Moore:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/hurrah-demi-moore-is-pugs-clubs-new-mistress-of-chamber/
zagreos ago
Thank you for your contributions to this thread.
Your other points were good, but I think comparing such relationships with paedophilia is counterproductive. Blurring the distinction between paedophilia and voluntary relationships between consenting adults has the long-term effect of normalising paedophilia — even if the distinction in this case is being blurred by condemning both as 'paedophilia', the long-term consequences of drawing such an equivalency will be the same.
Likewise, a 25 year-old male in a relationship with a 16 year-old female can be criticised for many other reasons but it would be a huge error to view such an individual as a "paedophile", since the relationship in question is a voluntary relationship between biological adults. In virtually all cultures (including Western cultures until about thirty years ago), such a relationship would be viewed as a normal adult relationship.
To lump relatively normal adult relationships into the same category as 'paedophilia' sets a dangerous social precedent that can only be harmful to children in the long run. This recent social trend by which the concept of paedophillia is continually expanded so that it includes normal or harmless adult relationships, makes paedophilia seem more and more normal to regular people. To speak of harmless adult relationships as "just another form of paedophilia", is to spit in the faces of the victims of real paedophilia.
No matter how you look at it, raping a five year old child should not be compared with regular adult relationships, regardless of the magnitude of the age discrepancy between the adults in question.
Mad_As_Hell ago
There is such a thing as ephebophilia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia
A lot of Dennis Hastert's activities fell into this category. Legally speaking, this is very much a no-no when you're talking about under-16s, depending on the age of consent where you live. Personally I feel that there is always some form of advantage taking by the older party occurring in these 'relationships'. Remember that whole 'cougar'/milf thing? Normalisation of ephebophilia?