Cultural obsession with pedophilia and rape
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2025 6:12 am
This is typically a combination of projection and blood lust. A prime example is those who join groups such as ‘wolf pack hunters’ on Facebook. Many of those ‘hunting’ are young men with violent tendencies, desperate to hurt someone and seeing the last group it’s socially acceptable to openly talk about killing as an easy target, with a not insignificant number of them being child predators themselves and compensating in order to remain hidden.
I think the bloodlust aspect deserves more attention. I don't think most people would even deny it.
This is an interesting point. It does feel like people try to dramatize and horrify as a way of avoiding the topic.Child abuse of a non-sexual nature seems to be endemic to human society, it is a functional part of social reproduction, and I think some people avoid processing collective and individual trauma or complicity in more mundane versions of it by obsessing over the most extreme and salacious forms of it.
It's hard to talk or think about CSA without either sounding clinically indifferent, personal, or hysterical. If you're trying to be nuanced about it, sounds like it could be apologia. If you consider the horror of the trauma of victims, the failure and indifference of social institutions, and the diminished humanity of the perpetrators, it's hard not to get deranged. Which of these poles will win out on social media? These frayed social media "conversations" will be driven by survivors, trolls, and most of all bored netizens.