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?

    • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      When you say there's a pedophile problem, do you mean that there are more people who are sexually attracted to children than previously thought or that the number of pedophiles is still small but they are allowed to prey on kids?

      Or something else like a pervasive aura of sexualization of children like other people in the thread are saying?

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Like it’s been a systematic problem filled with powerful and organized individuals for quite some time, and suddenly people are catching onto the fringes. You wouldn’t believe the amount of child abuse this baby can fit in it slaps the hood of America