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I think an unwanted side-effect for the age of consent in society has been how it's altered the notion of raising a child from 'getting them ready for adulthood before X age' and turning it into 'letting them start getting ready for adulthood by X age'. Too many parents view the age of consent, or a...

Every time I open the news, I always find what's essentially "Here are the top 10 new ways we're going to restrict our youth!" Every week there's some new big story about how a thing is super dangerous, and that we need to change our laws to ban youth from going near it (and strangely, the...

I applaud the lady who called in. And I find it interesting how the hosts had nothing constructive to say in return. Unfortunately that's just part of the parcel with these kinds of things. Conversations on this topic almost always end in 'ew that's disgusting lol' in response to valid critical out...

It's very difficult to defend incest because many of the power imbalance arguments that we would otherwise argue against on boards like this actually do apply to family dynamics. While there is nothing wrong with incest itself (assuming there's no pregnancy), because of the way our society currently...

Likely wishful thinking, but I do wonder if this will have a long-term impact and help swing things the other way. As these opinions become more mainstream, and more and more people are swept under the rug of 'predatory' despite having what today is considered a legal relationship, 'sex fascists' wi...

This, I feel, is the source of much of our strife. Society's beliefs towards AMSC and its perceived inherent negativity always derive from some uncanny imagination that minors are some odd, separate species - that childhood development is more akin to literal evolution than its descriptive reality, ...

It is unlikely that MAPs who consider themselves anti-c will say that they are against the right of young people to choose. It is their personal right to be against contacts, but they should not deprive young people of the right to choose. Within anti-c communities, this is actually something they ...

I've found that everything is a simple roundabout way to justify the opinion; a minor cannot have sex. The opinion is formed first, and then logic is construed to support that, contrary to basing an opinion off of logic. This is obvious when looking at the thought process behind categorical ages of ...

The discourse towards not only AI-generated children, but any form of children in art is all the evidence we need that the 'harming children' narrative is a load of crap. You'd think more non-MAPs would take notice. Perhaps some do but are just too afraid to speak out for fear of looking like one of...

I think that one of the biggest problems with our concept of 'consent' is how it's uniquely applied to sexual behavior, in contrast with other behaviors that similarly need consent. There's a nigh-religious perception towards consent in a sexual context that simply doesn't exist towards consent in o...