Maybe I'm being overly sensitive (I'm reading Lolita right now *shudder*) but you might want to put a trigger warning on that above image. This whole thing is creepy.

this is so sickening..I have no problem with watching anything but I've seen this before and there's no way I'll watch it twice. What I find most ironic is knowing that something like this would not even been tolerated in a less developed country, a country where women and children enjoy no rights at all. This is absolutely paradoxical.

How is that dude different from this dude:
http://texasflds.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/jeffs-kiss21.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zxcBkOB_h-I/TjwG9nzcQXI/AAAAAAAAAN4/oR34c0LkCJk/s1600/JeffsCameo.jpg

The family feud guy always creeped me out. Don't remember his name?

I don't think Rogerabutterfield is being overly sensitive. I could only take a couple of seconds of the video and I don't have any nasty memories that could be triggered. It's downright frightening behavior, and I think a warning is appropriate.

Here's an older Saturday Night Live clip that deals with the same thing... ~4 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xY4drATYRQ&feature=player_embedded

Part of what makes the Just Like Mom footage so creepy is that he is relentless even when the girls say no explicitly...and even goes so far as to tell them that if they don't give in then they won't win the show. 

Whether or not it is a norm to kiss/not kiss your elders/kids, etc... it *is* a social norm to *not* seek active, verbal consent, and it *is* a norm to coerce or force people who are clearly denying consent.  just sayin...

I would be very interested to hear Lee Anns (the contestant) memories of the whole thing, how it made her feel at the time, and what she thinks, watching it now. The thing creeps me out, I wonder how it really was recieved back in the day, and what was said about him by contestants among themselves, if he had a negative reputation...

I was born in the early sixties and grew up watching a lot of TV, sometimes it was used as a baby-sitter.  This type of thing was not an uncommon sight on the mass media.  It was more acceptable then.  We view it through the eyes of today where it is revealed as a violation and a power play. 

The interaction with the 3rd girl shown in the clip struck me as the worst.  The others almost could have been scripted' but that one was definitely disturbing.  It's not okay to coerce a grown woman into kissing you, and I doubt he could have done it, but he uses his authority as an adult, and even tries to bribe her, to kiss him, even when she doesn't want to.  Just....not okay.  I wonder who it is who muttered "dirty old man."

Wait... the moms are sitting NEXT TO the girls in this video?

Nowadays we're very inclined to see this in the light of paedophilia, but I'm not sure that's appropriate. This guy may or may not be sexually attracted to the young girls, and I don't think his behaviour here necessarily says much about that.

That's not to say the behaviour isn't a form of harassment and possibly very uncomfortable for the girls. To me it looks like most of his enjoyment comes from exerting the power that his gender and age gives him over them. I think there's also an element of "coaching" to what he's doing - he's teaching these girls to be receptive to the sexual coaxing of men. And like many social roles, this lesson is being taught via a kind of play-acting. 

My God, that's awful. Have a seat right over there.

I was reffered to this article by my sociology professor, and I literally can't watch it in the library because I'm so creeped out. I have my headphones in and scrolled all the way down on the page so people can't see what I'm watching because its so sketchy. I feel like the social stigma against sex offenders is largely unfounded and unfair, my best friend being one and having seen it up close how easily that particular system screws people's lives up, I'm happy that at least it prevents freaks like this guy getting a 7 o'clock spot.

maybe it's just my upbringing, but I found the reaction to this just plain silly. I bet that man has never had a sexual thought about a child in his life. The comments saying that he was hiding his secretly pedophilia through the times.... ridiculous. Yeah, fine, argue that it wasn't okay that it was more socially acceptable to force yourself onto kids then, but FFS, that man is not a pedo.

Another thing this video always reminds me of, people find it really creepy taht growing up I kissed my parents on the lips. you'd have to have grown up with it to see how incredibly not creepy it actually is if you are actually innocent minded.

why was my comment deleted.... =(

Damn... I really appreciate the trigger warning, because I was able to have my mouse poised over the pause button and the mute button which I ended up using.

I feel sick. Its not that often that this blatant sexual harassment of children is on video, so it's not too often that I have to relive some of my childhood trauma, but it sucks.