There seems to be an infinite of reasons as to why the former King of Pop, Michael Jackson kept taking unrelated young boys into his bedroom and then into his bed. One reason that comes back time and time again is that Michael Jackson has such a rotten childhood, where he had to perform with his older brothers, instead of being able to play ball games, with his younger friends that lived in his community (as he claimed on the fantastic Martin Bashir documentary).
But was that a good reason for Michael Jackson to keep on taking young boys into his bedroom and into his bed for a large portion of his adult life? Was MJ, the only boy in history, who had a bad or indifferent childhood? No, of course not.
Every single day I see television commercials showing all kinds of poor children living in 3rd world countries who have an appalling quality of life. These commercials show children who are sometimes as young as 5 years old, who have to walk miles every single day to collect a bucket of filthy dirty water that will probably give the entire family, diarrhea for the rest of the week.
But I never hear of these children going on to become obsessed and sleeping with children when they become adults, just because they didn't have a perfect childhood. They just get on with their adult lives and enjoy it the best they can.
