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TheHamilplexOfficial wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:08 am unsure abt Europe but as for the US, people who are considered "underage" are being restricted to do things, especially regarding sex. fortunately some states AoC is 16, but i do think it should be lower. people think that teenages are all dumb asf and dont understand anything. which may be true in SOME cases, but that doesnt mean that all teenagers (and non teens to btw) are dumb asf. its always "teens/kids are so dumb!" until they make something amazing and then its "teens/kids are so smart!" WHICH IS IT?????????? my fellow Americans truly make no sense

aeterna91 wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:32 pm Opinion is shifting at an alarming rate. I’m not sure I know of any other political issue where mainstream opinion has changed so quickly—and with such a strong effort to forget how people thought just over 10 years ago. Age gaps that were once socially accepted as perfectly normal have come to be viewed as a serious crime in a very short time… and everyone pretends it’s always been that way. It also strikes me that a great many people seem to believe that 18 is the age of sexual consent when it isn’t. I suppose it’s because 18 is the age of majority for almost everything else: voting, buying alcohol and tobacco, driving, filming pornography… which could lead us to the incredible success the U.S. had in getting every other country in the world to also ban erotic images of anyone under 18, even if the age of consent was lower, but that’s another topic. What I find fascinating is that so many people not only treat a relationship between a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old as one of the worst crimes imaginable, but are convinced that the law agrees with them. Obviously, if you explain to them that it’s perfectly legal for a 16-year-old to have sex with a 90-year-old if they want to, they go crazy and start ranting about how allowing such aberrations means the world is run by pedophiles.

Curson wrote: Fri May 08, 2026 4:46 pm

TheHamilplexOfficial wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:08 am unsure abt Europe but as for the US, people who are considered "underage" are being restricted to do things, especially regarding sex. fortunately some states AoC is 16, but i do think it should be lower. people think that teenages are all dumb asf and dont understand anything. which may be true in SOME cases, but that doesnt mean that all teenagers (and non teens to btw) are dumb asf. its always "teens/kids are so dumb!" until they make something amazing and then its "teens/kids are so smart!" WHICH IS IT?????????? my fellow Americans truly make no sense

I do feel like it is rather restrictive despite 'love is love' and all that with everything else having been decriminalized and with the CSA/pedo craze of the 1980s. It still has increasingly become more and more of a moral panic in America.

aeterna91 wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:32 pm Opinion is shifting at an alarming rate. I’m not sure I know of any other political issue where mainstream opinion has changed so quickly—and with such a strong effort to forget how people thought just over 10 years ago. Age gaps that were once socially accepted as perfectly normal have come to be viewed as a serious crime in a very short time… and everyone pretends it’s always been that way. It also strikes me that a great many people seem to believe that 18 is the age of sexual consent when it isn’t. I suppose it’s because 18 is the age of majority for almost everything else: voting, buying alcohol and tobacco, driving, filming pornography… which could lead us to the incredible success the U.S. had in getting every other country in the world to also ban erotic images of anyone under 18, even if the age of consent was lower, but that’s another topic. What I find fascinating is that so many people not only treat a relationship between a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old as one of the worst crimes imaginable, but are convinced that the law agrees with them. Obviously, if you explain to them that it’s perfectly legal for a 16-year-old to have sex with a 90-year-old if they want to, they go crazy and start ranting about how allowing such aberrations means the world is run by pedophiles.

I really think it has gone too far.

aeterna91 wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:32 pm Opinion is shifting at an alarming rate. I’m not sure I know of any other political issue where mainstream opinion has changed so quickly—and with such a strong effort to forget how people thought just over 10 years ago. Age gaps that were once socially accepted as perfectly normal have come to be viewed as a serious crime in a very short time… and everyone pretends it’s always been that way. It also strikes me that a great many people seem to believe that 18 is the age of sexual consent when it isn’t. I suppose it’s because 18 is the age of majority for almost everything else: voting, buying alcohol and tobacco, driving, filming pornography… which could lead us to the incredible success the U.S. had in getting every other country in the world to also ban erotic images of anyone under 18, even if the age of consent was lower, but that’s another topic. What I find fascinating is that so many people not only treat a relationship between a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old as one of the worst crimes imaginable, but are convinced that the law agrees with them. Obviously, if you explain to them that it’s perfectly legal for a 16-year-old to have sex with a 90-year-old if they want to, they go crazy and start ranting about how allowing such aberrations means the world is run by pedophiles.

Theendoftheline wrote: Fri May 08, 2026 8:53 pm

aeterna91 wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:32 pm Opinion is shifting at an alarming rate. I’m not sure I know of any other political issue where mainstream opinion has changed so quickly—and with such a strong effort to forget how people thought just over 10 years ago. Age gaps that were once socially accepted as perfectly normal have come to be viewed as a serious crime in a very short time… and everyone pretends it’s always been that way. It also strikes me that a great many people seem to believe that 18 is the age of sexual consent when it isn’t. I suppose it’s because 18 is the age of majority for almost everything else: voting, buying alcohol and tobacco, driving, filming pornography… which could lead us to the incredible success the U.S. had in getting every other country in the world to also ban erotic images of anyone under 18, even if the age of consent was lower, but that’s another topic. What I find fascinating is that so many people not only treat a relationship between a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old as one of the worst crimes imaginable, but are convinced that the law agrees with them. Obviously, if you explain to them that it’s perfectly legal for a 16-year-old to have sex with a 90-year-old if they want to, they go crazy and start ranting about how allowing such aberrations means the world is run by pedophiles.

Oh trust me in the future at some point I can promise that america and Europe will eventually just make an act that raises the general adult age and age of consent to 21.