No, Ser C, I don't think this story makes Webb a pedophile per se. I do think it makes me seriously question the values and the judgement of an author, regardless of his own desires, that would think this makes for good reading.

What's more, context is everything, and having read the passage in context, the father is a farmer, selling his rice at a agricultural collective. He blows his son in front of the buying agent, and proceeds to have a discussion about his rice harvest. Nobody bats an eye.

What does that say about the author's views? That in a normally funcitoning world, thinking adults wouldn't really bat an eye when a father publicly performs oral sex on his child?

Is this really the judgement we want to put into leadership in the Senate?