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.
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.
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
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 .
One of these women is 27. Another is 16. Ask your father, brother, or husband which is which.
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
Miss Connecticut entered a beauty contest. She wanted people to look at her and think "That young woman is sexy and beautiful" Would you say she wanted to be sexualized? Would you say she sexualized herself?
Over 400 million people live in EU countries where the age of consent is 14, 15, or 16
so that's a whole lot of normal respect for teens' bodily autonomy.
Civilized countries don't bring the cops in to try to do their parenting for them.
Only really fucked up countries do that.
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. 😀
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 »
When we're sex phobic, we see "sexualization" as a kind of attack. So we fight it by claiming that we are not sexual at all. Nature pretty much disagrees.
#SPR860
The brain is by far the least understood part of human anatomy. Sentences like "We took pictures of brains and noticed some changes and that means that 22 year olds cannot consent to sex" are very popular, but complete idiocy.
Should the youngest of young adults, the 14 and 15 year olds get special treatment that older adults don't get? Yes, of course.
Should we continue to use bogus science to demean and degrade older teens, and rob them of their civil rights? F**k No.
It never works to say "In ancient Hebrew tradition 12 year old females are women, therefore we'll uncritically accept that as true"
but as a way of opening our minds, something to consider, what if they got it right and we got it wrong?
1)
This woman says her 11 year old daughters are in puberty.
So in the old Jewish tradition their awkward adolescent phase would last about a year, until their bat mitzvah.
but since she lives in 2022 America they will likely be considered children for at least a decade.
2)
