Wild_Heather 

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Why does prostitution exist?

 If middle-aged men have mind control power over 17 and 18 year old women, why on earth would any man in his 50s spend hard earned cash on a sex worker, when he can just drive over to the nearest high school or college and get some for free?

Only when it comes to alcohol and especially *sex* does neo-Puritan America suddenly decide that young adults (aka teenagers) are small children with no life experience. It's absolutely insane.

It's all because the Stranger Danger panic of the 80s expanded to include higher and higher ages. Originally it was (COMPLETELY BASELESS) fear that your 8-year-old would be abducted, but 30 years later it was "OMG!!! My 17-year-old might have SEX!!!! PANIC!!!! NOW!!!"

You know that the vast majority of sexual assault of teens is committed by other teens, right? 

This hyperfocus we have on the mostly imaginary evil old predator-groomer is totally counterproductive. it prevents us from addressing the real causes of real harm.

Just look at the amount of depression they suffer from. They are in a bad state. Society has not been treating them well at all and it has bad consequences. and none of their problems are natural. They are developing naturally into a world that is not accepting their development.

Dr Howard Bernstein

This interview is old. Ritalin was being overprescribed at the time.

but many of the things he says are just timeless.

Listen. Think about the questions he asks.

It's only about 9 minutes long.


Sometimes I think it's a lost cause. The taboo is so strong. You get banned from social media just for telling this one simple truth. 

Teens gettin' knocked up?

Do we really think that more police, more arrests, more incarceration are the best response to unplanned teen pregnancy???

That's an atrocious attitude.

A young woman in love finds out she's pregnant, and our response is PRISON FOR THE FATHER!!!

super solution. /s

Dishonest Semantic Manipulation Gets Results

This sounds so reasonable, until you realize that the people involved were not children, and the sex was not rape. Consensual love-making is now a crime because the Puritans have taken control of the language, and they're using it to gently brainwash you.

#StopTheHysteria #SPR860 .

there are real solutions

Teen pregnancy correlates with poverty. Having a significantly older boyfriend does too. It's actually logical and reasonable. We need to eliminate poverty.

This is from the excellent Hines & Finkelhor meta study.

full text:  https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-03/statutory-sex-crime-relationships-between-juveniles-and-adults-a-review-of-social-scientific-research.pdf

#SPR860

 

Unbelievable fear-mongering bullshit and people think I'm exaggerating when I call it The Hysteria

The victim will tell you that it was all consensual. That he wanted to have a beautiful romantic candle light dinner with love-making by the fire afterward. DON'T BELIEVE HIM!! He was raped!! Power Imbalance!!! Predatory Sex!!! She is his boss!!!! Don't believe victims!!!

One of these women is 27, so it is totally ok for you to see her boobs. But another is only 16, so you must pretend that she looks like she's 8. Never acknowledge that a 16 year old might have a nice figure. That would mean you're sexualizing her. 😀

Dysfunctional Laws

The young woman was 17 and she took the racy photos herself and consensually distributed them to some friends.

All indicators are that it was no big deal to her, to her friends, or even to her parents, who didn't want a federal case made out of it.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/08/11/brush-colorado-school-sexting-child-porn/

The young woman is not pissed off at the principal who made a copy of the pics and stored them on a secure school server.

It was not a big deal to her.

The GIANT PROBLEM here was caused only by the effort to "protect" her.

The principal is facing 12 years in prison, and life on the sex offender registry.

I have no idea why the young woman herself was not charged with distributing child porn. She was not 18 when those pics were taken.

We desperately need to lower the age of majority to 16. Read More »