Bitcoin is about as secure as keeping your money in silver coins in wet paper bags as you walk thru Grand Central Station during rush hour.

Plenty of countries set their #AgeOfConsent at 15 and everything is fine. Letting teenagers control their own sex lives and pick their own partners does not unleash a torrent of abuse. There is proof of this all around the world :-)

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? Is that bad?

It seems bizarre to us that Jewish tradition says 12 year old females are women and 13 year old males are men, but that is a much more normal, natural, and healthy approach than ours.

16-year-olds are NOT children. To say so is unscientific garbage. Our young adults have internalized their own infantilization to such an extent that they openly deny the existence of #BasicBiology #ScienceDenial #teens #teenagers #infantilization #discrimination #bigotry

These statistics are old, but they show that the perpetrators of sexual assaults of teens are mostly other teens. We have reduced our thinking to THE ONLY PERMITTED narrative, which says the perp must be a \"grown ass adult\" Let's be honest about these things.

Regardless of your political orientation, it is important to consider sex trafficking claims carefully. They are sometimes misrepresented for profit or political gain. This victim spoke clearly about the misuse of her story. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237527496/anti-sex-trafficking-advocate-accuses-gop-sen-katie-britt-of-distorting-her-stor _

When we decriminalized alcohol the mafia lost its main source of income and most of its power. Decriminalizing drugs and prostitution has the same impact. Legal things can be regulated. Prohibition is what nasty drug lord mafia bosses want. We must keep legal porn.

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