>>I have mixed feelings about the show. I have seen the show several times....and accidently clicked into it a few other times. At first I thought it was a clever, useful way to catch dangerous perverts...and I suppose in some cases it has done that, but I have had to stop watching it because ALL they do is lure guys and get them to take a stupid chance.<<

There's no lure. I hear people call it entrapment but it is not. If a cop poses as an underage decoy and asks you, "Do you want to have sex?" And you go to this person's house and get busted, it won't fly because you were lured. But if you initiate the sex talk, that's not entrapment. And these guys were not taking a stupid chance--well, they were--but these guys knew what they wanted from this person as soon as they posted. It wasn't a case of being persuaded where they had no intention originally. They posted specifically to engage in sex chat. That's not entrapment. Some guys take their time--weeks before they start talking about sex but some guys go into it within just a few minutes.

It's no different than policewomen dressing like hookers. They can bust you if you try to pick them up just so long as they don't signal to you or somehow initiate the contact. They just stand on the sidewalk and let some dumb rube pull over and start haggling for sex and he's busted and it's legal. And as far as publicizing it, that's just what the cops do. If you get busted around here for soliciting a hooker, they publish your name and your photo AND they confiscate the car you were using and then auction it off.

These men that get busted on Dateline are just the same way. Someone here already stated that men left all kinds of crude remarks on her page. Guys like the ones getting busted--this is what they do when they go online. It's not something that dawns on them at the last possible second the 50,000th time they posted online. They cruise the chat rooms specifically looking for sex with a minor. It's what gets them off. They have no shame--until they get caught.

Nobody's being lured into doing soemthing they wouldn't normally do. They had every intention of doing it from the first post. Why else would an adult man post to an underage girl to begin with?