Rev [none/use name]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2020

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  • Rev [none/use name]
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    tomainThe mother of all struggle sessions: age of consent
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    4 years ago
    1. Pseudonym "gay" signifies nothing.
    2. Cannot know you are gay unless you explicitly say so.
    3. Didn't call you a pedophile because you are gay.
    4. Saying "there's a pedophile on chapo dot chat" and nothing else can only mean you are describing yourself.
    5. Don't fuck kids.







  • The teacher-student part is cause for concern because of a likely power imbalance. But the French state (and with a lot of support throughout the greater French society) deems 15 to be mature enough. Someone has suggested a borderline theocratic (and certainly socially much more conservative and traditionalist) Erdogan's Turkey to be a viable alternative. Or the US that has a history of very twisted, repressed, commercialised in the extreme and puritanically derived views on human sexuality and intimacy. Which is ridiculous.


  • The part of the brain that evaluates risk is practically non existent in teenagers

    How are they "obviously completely" different? Dying or getting paralysed from a sports injury is generally much more likely than from having sex. And I don't know if you maybe came into this world fully formed as a middle aged person but yes, I have been a teen and, if you can imagine, even (gasp!) a pre-teen. In my experience the level of maturity and sexuality/libido has varied greatly among my peers (I would even claim that, for biographical reasons, the statistical significance of my personal experience is in all likelihood quite a bit greater than yours).







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    tomainThe mother of all struggle sessions: age of consent
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    This is what I'm getting at here: socially binding policy needs to be science and evidence based. If the current research shows that it is impossible to consent before the full development of the brain (25 seems like a too arbitrary number), or that it is detrimental to healthy psychological development then we should use that as a basis for further decision making. Still waiting for people to start linking studies instead of raging though... On the other hand, we do know from studies that humans develop sexual urges and sexual curiosity at a very young age, in many cases well before puberty. Does that mean it needs to be a free for all without any restrictions? Obviously no. But as you said: the primary reason for restrictions is predatory behaviour and coercion, not just a gut feeling (which most of the time is not even an inherent gut feeling but conditioned by received social tradition) of things being "icky".