Dr David Ley explains that performative rage over pedophilia doesn't protect kids

https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/202009/performative-rage-over-pedophilia-doesnt-protect-kids

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 When a 75 year old man jerks off is he looking at naked pics of 75 year old women?

Nature gave teens all the equipment they need to attract a mate, and the desire to do so, but left their brains too stupid to make decisions about sex until they're 25???

 The Department of Motor Vehicles doesn't give you a license to be sexy.

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"grooming",  "power dynamics", and "age-gap" hysteria are 100% bullshit and getting all neurotic about them has made our youth miserable AF. They're having less sex than any previous generation, and killing themselves faster than ever before.

Our brains grow very quickly ages 0-3 and 9-13 and after that they just age slowly. 14 year olds have adult brains. This is #BasicNeurology

The Hysteria dogmatically claims that age = power and the older party is always to blame for anything that happens. In this case an unknown actress with no power at all got sexually harassed by a minor 10 years younger than her.

The Wikipedia entry for it cites a work that contains no reference to ephebophilia at all. It's a garbage concept completely unsupported by evidence.

What happens when they are confronted by normal human romance? 

It ain't pretty. 

Panic over age-gap relationships causes a lot of harm and benefits no one. The Hysteria is out of control. Everybody is shouting about pedophilia all the time and no one even bothers to learn what the word means.

Ask the men close to you. Show them some pics of 15 year olds on the beach. If they trust you they'll admit it. In fact pretty much any time any man says "Obviously Way Too Young" or "I think she's probably underage", he's saying that he'd never act on the attraction but he for sure feels it.

There were several reasons why teens in the 70s and 80s had problems. Chief among them was that they were infantilized. So in the 90s and 00s they decided that the solution to the problem was to double down on the infantilization. Which of course made everything much worse.

You believe that "ability to consent" exists? Ok. How is it measured? Please post a link to the scientific research showing who 17 year olds are able and unable to consent to. Thanks.

The sex-phobic Neo-Puritan movement uses propaganda to shame men for being sexually attracted to "young girls" who are in fact young women who all hetero men, except pedos, are attracted to. Misuse of the word "girl" is key to their efforts.

13-20 young adult

21-40 adult

41-60 middle-aged

61 old

Gens Y and Z think that the two previous generations were so much more prudish than them, when in fact the opposite is true. We're in the middle of a huge #PuritanRevival, and nobody sees it.

At a high school in a small city a 25 year old teacher fell in love with an amazing 18 year old student.

They had sex. They were super happy about it.

Some Twitter randos decided teacher-student power imbalance = RAPE!!!!

1)

Total strangers of course had no idea that the student had excellent grades, was near graduation, and was very popular among the faculty

She was also the principal's daughter. The principle was on the City Council

So in fact she had WAY MORE power than the brand new teacher

2)

So if power imbalance = RAPE!!!!

then clearly the 25 year old teacher is a rape victim here

and the 18 year old is a rapist who deserves a long prison sentence.

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a third phase of life between childhood and adulthood is not anything that nature created. it is a new thing that we made up, we suffer thru, and we think it has to be that way. but it absolutely doesn't. we created a bad thing and we should destroy it as soon as possible.