It never works to say "In ancient Hebrew tradition 12 year old females are women, therefore we'll uncritically accept that as true"
but as a way of opening our minds, something to consider, what if they got it right and we got it wrong?
1)
This woman says her 11 year old daughters are in puberty.
So in the old Jewish tradition their awkward adolescent phase would last about a year, until their bat mitzvah.
but since she lives in 2022 America they will likely be considered children for at least a decade.
2)
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When I was 17 my boyfriend was 23.
Peeps make a lot of very strong statements, but often refuse to define "child"
Me making love to my boyfriend was legal in our state. Today in Idaho that same romp in the hay would be punishable by years in prison.
1)
When peeps make broad blanket statements that large diverse groups of people "cannot consent" they look really foolish. Life is more complicated than that.
Teens can and do consent to sex every day in every country in the world. Let's all try to bring a dose of reality to this discussion.
2)
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Let's tell a story just for fun.
At a high school in a small city a 25 year old teacher fell in love with an amazing 18 year old student.
They had sex. They were super happy about it.
Some Twitter randos decided teacher-student power imbalance = RAPE!!!!
1)
Total strangers of course had no idea that the student had excellent grades, was near graduation, and was very popular among the faculty
She was also the principal's daughter. The principle was on the City Council
So in fact she had WAY MORE power than the brand new teacher
2)
So if power imbalance = RAPE!!!!
then clearly the 25 year old teacher is a rape victim here
and the 18 year old is a rapist who deserves a long prison sentence.
3)
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Some video game players showed addictive behavior. So the general public, as always, thinks A causes B. Therefore video games are addictive, right?
Wrong. Scientists know that correlation is not causation.
They looked into it, and found the players who were addicted to the games were also addicted to other stuff. They had addictive personalities. The games were a symptom, not a cause.
Why bring this up?
Many Cons wave around some Utah Mormon University research which shows that virgins tend to stay married more. This does *not* show causation.
It's exactly like the video game players. A minority have a propensity to X which manifests in multiple ways.
That is to say, the personality traits that lead one to stay a virgin also lead one to refuse to divorce. These people prefer blind obedience to rebellion and freedom.
Virginity is not causing good marriages. Fear of being disobedient makes these people do whatever their church says.
because there is no causal link, there is nothing to be gained by encouraging others to stay virgins. they won't. They prefer freedom, and sexual satisfaction, and if you try to force them to stay celibate, they'll be miserable. They don't have the "I love to be blindly obedient" trait.
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Puberty exists to prepare the organism for adult life. It would make absolutely no sense for nature to develop the body, get it ready to choose a mate and reproduce, but leave out the brain "Oh, we'll develop that 10 years later" :-D #SPR860
When we're sex phobic, we see "sexualization" as a kind of attack. So we fight it by claiming that we are not sexual at all. Nature pretty much disagrees.
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Pinocchio
One thing that keeps getting longer and longer is adolescence
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When the "crime" harms no one, but the taboo is so strict that the punishment has to be brutal and extreme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWPtAJS1kro
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When you abandon the scientific reality behind becoming an adult, all bets are off.
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Laws should be evidence based
In Hungary the age of consent is 14
Is there any evidence that that law harms Hungarian youth?
If so, show it If not, then maybe Americans incarcerating each other for harmless activities is just Puritan hysteria doing major damage w no benefit
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Age-obsessed Millennials Freak Out Over Nothing What happens when they are confronted by normal human romance? It ain't pretty.
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Puberty exists to prepare the organism for adult life. It would make absolutely no sense for nature to develop the body, get it ready to choose a mate and reproduce, but leave out the brain "Oh, we'll develop that 10 years later" :-D #SPR860
My video about sexual harassment, creepiness, and bullying. It starts out slow, but gets much better.
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We have so intensely infantilized under 20s that Gen Z internalized the idea that they'll be children until they're 25.
It's bizarre.
In 1997, 43% of 16 year olds had their driver’s license.
By 2020, it was just 25%.
Why have young adults (aka teens) stopped driving?
"People who are in their early twenties are estimated to be two and half times more likely to be sexually inactive than members of Gen X were at the same age."
The New Yorker Magazine 2022-04-11 "How Everyone Got So Lonely" by Zoë Heller
A festival of vile ageist bigotry
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