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Looks like you're promoting limits in age difference between intimate partners. That's what the establishment regime is trying to impose. I absolutely reject your proposal and I call on my followers to act to stop your proposal going into effect. There should be no upper age limit on the older pers...

If we look at it in terms of harm, it really does become subjective. Looking at girls aged 12-14 in the Finnish data (which is based on current social norms regarding sex): For peer relationships [sample size 1128] 13.4% felt it was negative, 42.2% felt it was neutral 44.4% felt it was positive. Fo...

Yes, it was way overblown. William T Stead was a moral crusader trying to force bourgeois morality onto the working class. As far as I know, none of what he claimed was actually substantiate aside from the fact that there were young girls engaging in sex work. He set up a publicity stunt where he pa...

A person should have sex whenever they feel it is needed. No. Obviously not, otherwise people would be at it the whole time. Umm... Why exactly does that sound like a problem to you? All of us think about sex more times daily than hours we are awake. That is our biology letting us know what we shou...

When it comes to relationships, according to the latest psychological paradigm (ofc they make a special exception for minor/non-minor relationships), there are but two questions to ask: Are you happy? Are you functional? If the answer is yes to both, intervention is unwarranted, even if other people...

I don't condone sex with minors or any other creepy behavior towards them but another good argument is that a hard consent line guarantees the minor's first sexual experience with an older person will be an awful one. Sex by adults on children is already unethical but only the worst quality, most c...

In Howitt & Sheldon, another study on the topic, when cognitive distortions are grouped they use 4 common categories of distortions. 1) Children are sexual objects (I fucking hate the name of this one, it should be called "children as sexual subjects", at least) 2) Uncontrollability (...

I came out to my mom a couple of years ago. She was initially like, "you can't have what you want. Not only is it illegal, but it's immoral, too." Now she's firmly in my corner. She's glad I told her because she would have never changed his opinion otherwise. We had a conversation a few we...

Even if the whole thing about teens being hormonal, reckless, and incapable of thinking about the future were true, it's not an argument against adult/teen relationships like they think it is. If true, the absolute last thing we would want is for teens to multiply their stupidity by dating each othe...

I think there was an attempt by the Brazilian government in 2012 to lower the AoC to 12 because 14 was unrealistically high, but there was backlash by the public, so they dropped it. About half of the states in Mexico still have a minimum age of consent of 12, so there's not really much need for a M...