A. we should make it much easier for people to report abuse of power. and we should protect those whistleblowers from retaliation. B. we should not take the existence of a power imbalance as proof that abuse occurred. Especially if no allegation of abuse was ever raised.

Ever wonder why everyone is obsessed with when brains "finish developing"? Never before in history has this been a discussion topic. (hint: it's pure bigotry)

It is not complicated. We all know what coercion is. We all know what abuse of power is. Power imbalances exist in every relationship. The existence of a power imbalance doesn't mean that something unethical happened. We need to stop the hysteria.

Twitter unfroze my account. but then I tweeted a link to my most recent blog post (which is much too long for the 280-character limit) That was cause for them to flag my account as suspicious. They think I might be doing "platform manipulation" (unbelievable idiots)

We have extremely heated debates about sex and young adults. It's never about 5 or 10 year olds. It's never about children. It's never about pedophilia. It's always about young adults 14+ 1) Half the peeps respect teens' right to control their own bodies, and half the peeps furiously demand we treat teens like toddlers. 2) Peeps over 40 remember a time when teens dated, and had sex with 20-somethings all the time, and nobody batted an eyelid. It was not abuse. It was normal romantic love-making. We old folk remember. We lived it. We know there's nothing wrong with that. 3) Since dumb urban myths and very sketchy pop "science" reclassified young adults aged 14-20 as children, suddenly literally all men are pedos. 4) and I mean that seriously. Real pedos are attracted to children 12 and under. Normal hetero men are attracted to young women post-puberty (they've got boobs and hips etc) Normal gay men are attracted to young men post-puberty (they've got muscles and body hair etc) 5) No sexual attraction ever depends on arbitrary legal definitions. Nobody starts or stops being attracted to someone on their 18th birthday. Nobody chooses who they are attracted to. Literally all men are sexually attracted to minors. 6) and that's what creates the vicious debate. Puritans are furious that someone might have lewd thoughts about a "child" Large numbers of people have been fooled into thinking that completely normal sexual attraction is a dangerous perversion which leads to violent rape. 7) It's absurd, of course. Tucker Carlson can watch Miss Teen USA and think that the hot 15 year old is appealing and not rape anybody. It is not at all dangerous to admit that beauty pageant contestants are pretty or sexy. Tucker's commentary did not harm anybody. 8) but the extreme anger directed at Mr Carlson is sure to prevent him from ever telling a simple truth like that again. American men are now forced to pretend that teenagers are not fully sexually developed people and not attractive to normal men. 9) Gays in the 50s were forced to hide their sexuality, never admit the truth. Homosexuals are 4% of the population. Today men are forced to hide their sexuality, never admit the truth. Men are 50% of the population. 10) Many gays in the 50s loathed themselves. They had internalized the hate directed at "deviants" and "perverts" We are repeating exactly the same thing today, but with 1/2 the population. 11) Men see sexy teens every day. Often they feel sexual arousal when they see them at the mall or the swimming pool, or watching porn featuring 18 year olds. Puritans want those men to believe that that makes them disgusting creeps. 12) Puritans call them pedos to try to induce deep feelings of shame and self-loathing. A brand new taboo has been born just in the last 15 years. It's amazing. 13)

For decades men have been watching porn featuring 18, 19, and 20 year olds. Puritans have argued that it must be stamped out, but no one ever showed it was harmful at all. Now in 2024 that same old normal behavior is ARMAGEDDON!!! They're sexualizing 18 year olds!!! PANIC!!!

Teenagers were given much much more respect in the 70s and 80s than they get now. Talk to some people who lived thru it. Today's teens get treated like dirt and it's depressing the hell out of them.

Overprotective helicopter parenting and the intense infantilization of young adults (aka teens) caused a massive mental health crisis among young people. Rather than admit that they fucked up however, most people blame smart phones and social media (tho' experts agree that's not the real cause)

This is so much bullshit. A. 99% of PornHub content is perfectly legal. B. Only a tiny % of Pornhub content is even morally questionable. C. PornHub is a huge profitable business. They are VERY motivated to get rid of any and all questionable content immediately. D. Access to websites cannot be blocked. China has tried. I know people who travel to China for work. They describe the simple methods to take to access anything. E. The British, EU, or US gov'ts could force banks to stop PornHub payments, of course, that would force porn sites off shore or underground, where it would immediately become total law of the jungle, making the situation MUCH WORSE for everyone involved. F. McNamara is a self-described abolitionist. She wants to abolish the entire porn industry. That will, of course, never happen. How many thousands of years have they been trying to wipe out prostitution, for example? So, why bother? Oh, she's grifting. Should we put pressure on PornHub to enforce strict ethical standards? Of course. We should do that with ALL web sites. Do we as a society need to learn how to deal with erotic materials being transmitted digitally? Of course. Just like any other technology. Safe, legal, regulated porn, alcohol, weed, prostitution is the way to go. Blanket prohibitions of all these things have been tried and have always failed causing far more harm than the vice they were meant to stamp out. Let's not do that anymore.

I don't have the skills, but I really wish someone would do the research and find out... Is there a correlation between being constantly told your brain is defective from age 10 to 17 and incidents of depression, suicide, and attempted suicide in that age group?

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.

The Colorado Sun

Rural Colorado school administrators investigated sexting between students. Now they're charged in a child porn case.

After a Safe2Tell tip came in, two administrators saved images on a secure school server in Brush. Cops and the DA say it violated porn possession ...

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. We must start to #RespectYoungAdults

a smart and a stupid answer "Sex involves risk of pregnancy" is a good argument for thorough sex education and free contraception. It it not an argument for Abstinence Only Enforced By Cops and the Mass Incarceration System.

If anyone actually believed this we'd never let anyone under 25 get a tattoo, join the army, or have children.

In her mind heterosexual women *never contributed anything* to the development of human society. She believes that women have pussies which motivate men to invent and build stuff. Other than having a pussy we have no value. K

Criminalizing the sex lives of young adults (aka teenagers) is just really fucking stupid. It has huge costs and zero benefits. If California's age of consent laws were strictly enforced half the population would be sex offenders by the time they turn 22.

Poorly hidden leftist tendencies Tits are woke. be careful out there, men.

Unbelievably arrogant MF from the BBC. England literally chopped down all their forests, and dug more coal out of the ground than any other country, and burned it all. Nobody has been more of an ecological disaster for our planet than the English. Now this fucker is gonna try to scold Guyana?

Young women aged 14-18 have a right to control their own bodies. These young women deserve the exclusive right to decide if they want to make love, and if they do, with whom, when and how. Twitter randos have exactly zero right to make any comment on their decisions.

Sensationalist media, the Chris Hansen types who make piles of money drumming up hysterical fear of X or Y, love to use words like "predator" and "prey on" because it evokes images that stick in the mind. It gets people emotional. Having a calm rational public is not profitable for them.

For centuries bigots have been using "their brains are defective" to justify horrendous treatment of women, Africans, etc. They always use pseudo-science to back up their obnoxious claims. Today they use *exactly the same* shit arguments to demean and degrade young adults (aka teens).