zarkle wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:42 pm
You have a point about the public image of children and teens being different from reality, I agree there. Both children and teens want to be loved and teens and even 10+ want to be sexy intentionally. We need a massive change in norms to allow that.
I know prepubescent children have sexual arousal but it doesn't become concrete until puberty. Keep in mind "concrete sexuality vs abstract prepubescent fantasy sexuality" are two different things. Prepubescents have sensitive nerve endings but lack the hormones that program concrete arousal. For example when I was 5-6 I touched my self sexually while watching spongebob or thinking about tails from Sonic the hedgehog, and fantasized about going back inside moms tummy, it was like a proto sexual arousal, but when I turned 11 I noticed I was attracted to chicks, women (boobs and ass) and of course little girls too. That's when i started jerking off normally and never went back to abstract fantasies. The point is sexuality isn't concrete until puberty and I don't want to take advantage of a child's biological process that is not complete, and I add 2.5 years (11.0 to 13.5) just to be a gentleman. The truth is I don't want to have sex with my main age of attraction - toddlers or kindergarten girls ever despite being obssesed with them. I don't even look at them naked (swim catalog websites only) i'm tired of normies thinking its predatory to love and appreciate small girls.
we need to normalize cuteness, find a way for western culture to embrace the cuteness of little girls.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by concrete vs. abstract sexuality. It seems to make some sense, on paper, considering how low testosterone and estrogen/progesterone levels are before puberty, but it doesn't match with my anecdotal experience (I don't want to go into detail). Many people will tell you that they had crushes at 6/7 and although many people contend that one can be asexual and 'romantic' simultaneously, I think what most people have in mind when they talk about 'crushes' involves some sexual attraction.
I don't really understand the point about taking advantage of a child's biological process when it's incomplete. It seems kind of vague to me. I think I can understand the argument if it's that prepubescent children don't have bodies that are ready for reproduction so sexual contact will likely cause them distress for that reason (i.e. that sexual instincts come with an ability to sexually reproduce and in the absence of that sex will be disgusting or upsetting). The problem is that small children seem to have low disgust and older children (6/7 and up) seem to have some sexual interest and won't necessarily be scarred or traumatized for life with some kind of erotic contact (not necessarily full-on vaginal intercourse. It could be kissing, cunnilingus, tight hugging, etc.).
Adding 2.5 years really confuses me. Children start puberty at different ages, some 10-year-olds menstruate, some 14-year-old girls don't (some 15 to 44-year-olds don't but that wouldn't be for 'age-related' reasons, only around 2% of 15-year-old girls haven't started menarche. Some girls aged 9 and younger do menstruate but that's considered precocious). If you want to play it safe, it seems to me that 15 should be the magic number, even though most people seem to find the idea of a 40-year-old man with a 15-year-old girl to be completely shocking and unacceptable which I honestly cannot fathom (not that any given 15-year-old girl will necessarily want a 40-year-old man but she might not want a conventionally unattractive 15-year-old boy either, no one sees a moral issue with her dating such a boy). Or, again, you could make it 17 even though I think the difference between having started ovulation/sperm production and being fully sexually mature (for girls, I'm assuming that basically means consistent menstrual cycles and fewer anovulatory ones) is a difference in degree whereas you can draw a black and white line between someone who ovulates/has menstrual cycles and someone who does not.
Do you avoid looking at naked toddlers/kindergarten-aged girls as a matter of principle?
The baseline for me is that we stop stigmatizing pedophilia and significant age-gap attraction (everyone deserves happiness and sexual pleasure falls under that. To the extent that a relationship is a source of happiness for people it should be celebrated by everyone) and if we discourage child-adult or significant age-gap sexual intimacy in practice the justification should be an anti-suffering agenda, not the idea that such relationships are bad on principle.
I'm a broken record on this (I love pointing it out) but even if you think that older adult-teen relationships are
bad (that's fine, it's a separate conversation), we need to stop pretending that men in their 20s, 30s, etc. being attracted to teenage girls isn't to be expected. It is caused by normal human biology. Men's bodies are adapted to impregnate human females and 15-24-year old girls/women typically ovulate, so average men are going to feel attracted to some of them in accordance with basic human biology. Making fun of someone like Drake for just being attracted to teenage girls as if he's some rare exception and that's super corny is phony. Attraction isn't a choice.