We have a system that doesn't actually prepare children for real life, but one that artificially extends their childhood in order to avoid all possible "harm".
It's a disaster.
#RespectYoungAdults #StopNeoPuritanism
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Young adults aged 15-17 have sex every day all over the world
and they have done so for all of human history
Pretending there's something wrong with that is bizarre Puritan bullshit
Young adults aged 15-17 have sex every day all over the world
and they have done so for all of human history
You pretending there's something wrong with that is bizarre insane Puritan bullshit 😀😀😀😀😀
When I was 17 my boyfriend was 23. It was totally fine.
In some US states someone could go to prison for that "crime" which hurt absolutely no one.
It's Puritan hysteria creating a huge problem where none existed before.
Actual child marriage is really quite rare. Sometimes media outlets skew the figures to get shock value for their headline. Like they count 16 and 17 year olds as children and they account for like 98% of all the "child" brides.
The "science" they used to "prove" that your brain is undeveloped until you're 25 is garbage.
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It’s easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan studies. Just ask a dead salmon.
There is a desperate desire to interpret or reframe every single sex act as some kind of violence or abuse. Any age gap, any prior relationship or lack of prior relationship, anything that might be twisted into "power imbalance", ANY excuse to accuse anyone of abuse or rape.
The Hysteria teaches that young adults have no brain power
and can be easily brainwashed by anyone older than them.
There's not a shred of evidence to support that nonsense,
but people choose to believe it.
I have lived in countries where the age of consent is 15.
It's really not a problem. Only the Americans are having a hysterical freakout, because they are terrified of sex.
Laws should be evidence based.
In Portugal the age of consent is 14.
Is there any evidence that that law harms Portuguese youth?
If so, show it.
If not, then maybe Americans incarcerating each other for harmless activities is just Puritan hysteria doing major damage w no benefit.
Threatening to put someone's boyfriend in prison doesn't help young people.
In fact it is strong incentive to keep a relationship secret, which means that parents lose all ability to help.
Prohibition is a very bad idea.
Never since the beginning of written records have young adults aged 14-20 been so demeaned, degraded, and infantilized.
Over the last 20 years we've seen an insane unnatural very unhealthy artificial extension of childhood.
#TeensAreAdults #teens #teenagers #infantilization
When you see a post about two adults,
a 17 year old who went on a date with a 38 year old,
peeps are somehow sure that it is obvious that this relationship must cause harm.
OK.
So where is the evidence of that?
People are confused about what the age of consent is.
The age of consent is NOT the age at which society thinks *you should be having sex*.
The age of consent is the moment when the state stops deciding for you and you become responsible for making those decisions for yourself.
Look at the facts. The FBI investigates fewer than 100 human trafficking cases per year. Charges are filed in about 20 of them. In a country of 320 Million people that is statistically null. The crime that has terrified everybody practically doesn't exist.
There is no epidemic of kidnapping or people being forced into prostitution.
Grifters intentionally distort statistics to gin up fear, and create hysteria to support their very lucrative propaganda machines
#StopTheHysteria
The number of homosexuals does not rise or fall depending on the severity of the persecution they face.
The number of drug users does not rise when you decriminalize drugs.
The number of people who pay for the services of sex workers does not rise when you legalize their jobs.
Today in Idaho my ex-boyfriend could get prison time for making love to me (ages 17 + 23), which is fucking insane.
In some states 18 + 15 makes you a sex offender. In others 16 + 25 is perfectly legal.
It's like they just randomly chose stuff they think is bad.
You can't really pretend to care about pedophilia when you refuse to learn what the word means 😀
There are some things people just always believe. True or not.
If crime is rising or falling or staying the same, everyone always believes it's rising.
and they always believe the youngest generation is the worst and the most lazy, wild, undisciplined, etc.