Prohibitions of very popular products like weed, alcohol, sexual services, or porn do far more damage than the products themselves.
#FreakishTrads have a weird fetish for making totalitarian police states to brutalize those caught breaking useless moral codes.
#Prohibition
Here's what happened:
Clickbait media outlets made money writing "X is Y"
Peeps wanted to believe that so they told all their friends
When a real journalist asked experts in the field they said "We don't know what X is"
The public believes utter bullshit and the whole debate is nonsense.
The Irish law was exceptional then.
Most of those old window taxes were exclusively on glass windows.
"When his child was born he looked down with disdain at the screaming infant... I don't see no tenacity, grit, or wisdom here. And I'm supposed to love this noisy little shit?"
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"When his child was born he looked down with disdain at the screaming infant... I don't see no tenacity, grit, or wisdom here. And I'm supposed to love this noisy little shit?"
No. It was a tax on wealth. Glass windows were a luxury good only the rich could afford. Poor people got too much sunlight because they were outside all day, and even those inside could just open their windows for more light. The tax was on the glass, not on the sun.
Recently I've seen people claim that pole dancing is not sexual.
Twerking too. Kissing?
and the simple fact is, that it doesn't matter.
There is nothing evil about sexuality.
It's ok that Barbie Dolls have boobs.
"Brains fully developed at 25" is an urban myth.
It has been thoroughly debunked. Slate did an excellent summary:
https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
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"sex trafficking" is fear-mongering bullshit.
Huge scary headlines that make great click-bait all based on fraudulent statistics.
Chris Hansen got rich terrifying parents, and our whole society is like a big mental patient ever since.
#SexTrafficking #trafficking
When we were 15 and 16 they called us young women. Because we were. There was really no problem with that. Just in the last decade or so Americans have decided that biology means nothing, only the law matters. It's weird and very problematic.
Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, and several other countries have their ages of consent set at 14. They do just fine. Don't let sex-phobic Puritan hysteria control your thinking.
Way back in the 90s Rush Limbaugh showed you could make a ton of money by being a snarky asshole media figure. Lots of people tried to emulate his model. So many in fact that the space is very crowded and in our attention economy the most outrageous wins.
Discussions about "ability to consent" are today's version of overconfident smart people in the 1820s arguing about how the shapes of their friends' heads show that they are honest/deceitful/energetic/lazy/perfectionist/sloppy etc.
How many helicopters do you own?
There are pedos and there are normals. If you are attracted to post-pubescent people you are normal.
Bans on dating people 10 years older or younger are like prohibiting people from going to the bank because they might rob it. "Letting them in the bank creates potential for abuse"