I'm not talking about queer people getting called groomers. I know why that's happening. I'm referring more to a more general fear of pedophilia instead of just repackaged homophobia.
I feel like I'm hearing about it like every other week. For instance, parent bloggers noticing that their engagement skyrockets when they post their kids eating hotdogs or in swimwear. Another example is an increasing trend of people on Pinterest creating walls and albums labelled "hot kids."
I know that elite freaks are all pedos, but is pedophilia an actually growing problem among regular people? It seems to me like when suburbanites freak out about any other thing like BLM or immigrants marching through and razing their communities. Or the crime freakout in the 70s/80s.
Am I being naive and we actually need to be on high alert?
I think pedophilic culture is more common, intentional or not. Like hiring grown ass adults to play children in the media. Or porn being very weird about babysitters and siblings (blah blah blah kink shaming whatever).
And it is a problem. Republicans and Christians/Catholics have a lot of institutional power, and they have lots of pedos in their ranks. they are obsessed with teenage girls’ bodies and want to control it for the lord or whatever. Making it taboo to talk about periods, pregnancy, abortion, families, and so on makes it easier for an “authority” figure to groom a child into accepting terrible things, whether it’s a worldview or abuse by said figure
Conservatives used to freak out about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK. But recently the conservative government changed their laws to make it harder for illegal migrants to be protected against human trafficking gangs
this is nothing new, watch high school movies from the 70s and 80s and it's even more blatant than today. Sissy Spacek was like 27 in Carrie, a movie that begins with a bunch of "high school" girls naked in a locker room
Personally, I think this is a fine practice (having older actors play younger people). I don't really want kids anywhere near the famously groomy entertainment business.
The desire of directors and writers to have naked teenage girls is fucking weird though
lol just don't tell stories about teen characters
Yes.
Kink shaming is beyond the point. Incest porn got a major boost right around the time the porn sites were seeing a lot of pressure from their finance vendors to crack down on “exploitative content”. I quote that not because I don’t think they get rid of a lot of genuinely exploitative content, but because that monicker was used as pretense to disempower a lot of sex workers, but that’s a whole other topic. Bottom line is certain keywords got deprioritized or flagged as exploitative. As soon as “teen” became flagged, a bunch of fetish content that catered to situations where “teens” happened to be interacting got real popular.
So if people are into whatever kind of play that is, that’s their prerogative. But there are material underpinnings to the whole trend which are much more insidious than any individual kink.
Because it was never about protecting kids, it was about protecting white/british kids.
Which law is that?