benja is right, apart from discussing how this fits into the wider Master/Mel storyline, this entire thread is a monument to pointlessness. People who attack the work do so because either: A) they want to stroke their own egos by broadcasting how virtuous they are (which I suspect is why most of them are in it); or B) they actually expect the opposing side will at one point go like, "WHOA, this really is the same as real life paedophilia, fuck, you are correct, I feel so ashamed now" (in which case, I have some choice comments about their intellect). Cue the opposing side wasting 10 pages of the thread on lining arguments that the attackers are bound to dismiss completely because it never was about the arguments in the first place. But it must be said, these things always happen the same way, they are always started by the same side. No one amongst those of us who liked it went and posted crap like "yeah, real life paedophilia fucking rocks, everyone grab yourself a kid", no, instead this always starts when moral crusaders attack the work and (as happened here as well) those who read stuff like that, which inevitably causes the defending side to come out in force as well, and when the dust finally settles, no one has changed sides. Every. Bloody. Time.