Seriously, in the USA where the age of consent is between 16 and 18 we have TWICE THE TEEN PREGNANCY rate of EU countries, and we have far more STDs. High ages of consent do NOT solve these problems. In fact, it looks like they cause them.
Joseph Bronski's excellent 2021 book "An Empirical Introduction to Youth" points out that 50 years ago Tanner showed most young people finishing puberty at 14 or 15 years of age
Tanner was METICULOUS as hell
Tanner links:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/adc.44.235.291
&
https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/adc.45.239.13
Would you say that the audience looking at her sexualized Miss Connecticut?
Would you say that the pageant organizers sexualized her?
Was Miss Connecticut sexualized at all?
Is that a bad thing?
Why?
In the old days our extended families and rural life meant we saw a lot of interactions across all age groups.
We have lost so much of that that I now people saying things like "teens look like children". It's completely absurd but I think they really believe it. They have never seen a 17 year old stand next to a 7 year old. They never think it thru. Like, obviously a 16 year old can pass for 22, but you'd never confuse him or her with a 10 year old. Children look VERY different from teenagers. Puberty does that to a person.
EVERYONE is running around screaming "Pedo! Groomer! Pedo! Groomer! Pedo! Groomer!"
The Cons think the pedos and groomers are gays and perverts.
The Libs think the pedos and groomers are fundamentalist white men.
but all of that is noise. NONE of that has anything to do with real pedophilia, and "grooming" is pure fear-mongering bullshit.
The Trads don't think that a young woman, say 13-years-old needs protection from a good white fundamentalist Christian man who wants to marry her. So for them her father's permission is enough.
They think that all teens desperately need protection from homos and transvestites who will convert the next generation to the worship of sodomy.
In short fathers must control the sex lives of teens.
The Libs know damned well that dangerous homos aren't canvasing high schools for potential converts. But they are terrified that a mythical "sex predator" will brainwash ("groom") their sweet innocent 18-year-old and "abuse" (break her heart) him or her. Read More »
Brain Science can now Predict The Future!!! "according to recent research neuroscientists can tell, depending on your brain responses, whether you and your significant one will still be together in a few years" (protip: don't believe any of this shit)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/controversial-science-of-brain-imaging/
the movement to outlaw abortions is based on the atrocious and ridiculous oversimplification "The only reason women need abortions is because they're stupid and can't control their rampant sluttiness" when in fact there are 100s of reasons unplanned pregnancies occur.
Nobody ever talks about the vicious hate teenagers face on line. Bigots abuse and harass them simply because of their age. It's vile AF but everybody just acts like it's normal.
Teens are literally adults. Puberty made them that way. The fact that small changes in hair-style, wardrobe, and make up can make 26 look like 16 and vice versa proves it's all one age group :-) They are physically identical.
Cops murder innocent people with impunity
Wokes tell uncomfortable truths that fragile white men hate hearing
Where is the real problem here?
That woman is admiring that very sexy man's appearance.
In the old days we said "She thinks he's hot."
Now everybody says "She's sexualizing him" as a way to shame her for being too horny.
We have become a very sex-negative culture.
