• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    First off, fuck pedophiles.

    But secondly, becoming 18 doesn’t suddenly make one any less vulnerable to exploitation than a 17 year old who is 1 day away from becoming 18.

    Just because someone is 18 and ‘legal’, it doesn’t make it not gross for a 40 year old to date them. It’s an improvement from dating a 15 year old, but gross regardless.

  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    When you’re a teenager, other teenagers are hot as fuck. I guess it makes sense that if you never develop as a person beyond that, then you would find teenagers attractive as an older person. Still gross, mind you.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    I had to search for ‘ephebo’. Really regret knowing now and of course, concerned what that looks like to my ISP!

  • Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I like words to have meaning, so… they’re right? But also that’s still bad! (Unless you manage to go through your whole life being attracted to minors without ever acting on it, I guess. In which case, good for you. Sucks you got dealt that shitty hand but well done doing the best despite it.)

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    2 days ago

    Man. I like wraparound sunglasses. They keep the sun out of the corners of my eyes.

    My brother-in-law once said to me, rightly, “We gotta find you some sunglasses that make you look less…Republican.”

    Conservatives ruin everything.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Fire Emblem, where you can have a 3000 year old dragon, shaped, and acting like, a 10 year old girl, fuck her obsessed stalker to get all the child characters to contribute in your war.

      I put the game down and never finished it…

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        22 hours ago

        I have to say, animes and Japanese videogames seem to be obsessed with having most, if not all, characters underaged and sexualised. It is very suspicious of Japanese creators…

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        19 hours ago

        I get your point and one could argue this is a harmless way for people who suffer from this to get their fix.

        On the other hand one could argue that this stuff normalizes this type of attraction in our society.

        • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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          5 hours ago

          If you can’t differentiate fiction from reality.

          The damage it does is not really that much different from all the violence in media.

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
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      24 hours ago

      Ephebophilia is yearning for 15yo teens: a term to distinguish classes inside the larger class of pedophilia. Don’t ask why I know that.

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      2 days ago

      It’s about the kind of people who quickly defend being attracted to children as “not pedophilia” because they’re technically teens. Same kind of people who know age of consent in various countries.

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          As funny as the joke is, it is also concerning that knowledge is still being used as a cudgel to judge people over.

          We really have to stop normalizing shitting on knowledge.

          … Though if they look like in OP, uh… that’s using more information than knowing words to judge someone, which is fine.

          • sleen@lemmy.zip
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            12 hours ago

            Sadly, that’s what happens when we let conservatives and liberals muddy the waters. Knowledge gets tossed down the drain because some abusers want dignity - and where is the sense in that.

            The result of this muddy water is the indoctrination that one thing means several other things that are not remotely true. But, the thing is - these people are more accurately just straight up sex offenders. They are abusers where the victim is anything that moves no matter what age; child, teenager, adult are all victims.