The human experience is diverse
It is abhorrent to only believe victims when the victim says what you want them to say
Young people have agency. Their choices should be respected.
We should learn to ask people:
"Do you admit that it's a #taboo?"
"Do you admit that no #RationalDiscussion of it is permitted?"
"Are you okay with the fact that none of these ideas have any #logical basis?"
When I was in the 7th grade they taught us about dishonest sales techniques. They taught us how con artists rip people off. We were much better prepared to protect ourselves as consumers because of that. Exactly that same sort of thing happens with sex education in Europe. We should adopt that approach here in the USA. So far American society has an F- when it comes to raising capable young adults. In fact it's getting worse and worse. We used to get a solid C.
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 or 15 years later"
If anybody really thought 16 year old brains were deficient we wouldn't let them drive cars, quit school, work full time in dangerous environments, or even babysit. We know perfectly well that 16 year old brains work perfectly well.
Hypothetically two schools, one in Vermont and one in California set out to stop their male pupils from sexualizing female bodies. After a 4 year effort how would they measure the results? How would we know if the VT program was better or worse than the CA one?
You write "I" and "them" as if you are not human.
What you're really talking about is us. It is important what we decide to do. We have brains and voices. We can be nihilists, or we can try our best to prevent as much suffering as we can.
I am against suffering.
The whole point of searching for the truth, writing, thinking, discussing, is to improve people's quality of life.
If you have no interest in that, then please mute me.
If you're pro-suffering you are my enemy, not my friend.
If kraut-zone is down you can find the same vid here:
https://peertube.su/w/uRfBSqoYTUs57VXeNmSCaG
It's amazing everyone has this backwards.
Everyone should take 30 seconds out of their busy schedules to watch this vid and learn what pedophilia is
All those cute pictures of brains from MRI scans that made everyone think that under 25s are idiots... have NO CONNECTION to behavior at all. Brain science knows about 1000% less than people think it does.
Needless suffering is tragic.
Stupid Puritans lying to themselves and making up new taboos will not bring anyone improved quality of life.
The age of adulthood has been steadily rising. Childhood now lasts a decade longer than it did 50 years go. This is a remarkable shift in our attitudes.
#SPR860
The conclusions of researchers, like Finkelhor and Hines, are actually logical when you step back and think about it. Why would nature prepare our bodies to have sex and make babies, but leave our brains too stupid to handle relationships???
#Science #SPR860
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x935&blurhash=_MFrnm9F9aWXxaWBRjyYD%24M%7BxakCayRj%7EqD%25%25KWrWCayRj-%3BD*ax-oa%7DNGjYM%7DIUNHxt%251jZRk-%3AofaeM%7Ct6xtayIUR*NHoeWBoet6M%7CxajZRjR*R*t6t2xtofRjRkaybH&x=92190ddac596f54137a4721c164ba360d1ebef6b1b2102fa98cbf7c99a6fbf7eReal solution:
A. lower the age of majority to 16 (even runaways need legal rights)
B. decriminalize all sex work (cops should work for the prostitutes not against them)
C. triple the minimum wage (make non-sex work far more attractive and sustainable)
#NotRocketScience
Puritan right wing fundamentalists realized that most of the population no longer perceived prostitution as evil. So they made a conscious decision to rebrand it as SEX TRAFFICKING. Then they conflated it with a few other very vaguely defined forms of \"trafficking\" so they could manipulate the statistics and get huge scary numbers for raising money and motivating the ignorant.