Post #2409644

@butchrobot@shork.nerdmusic.net @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @buncube@transfem.social > How many decisions do you regret that you made at 14? A lot in fact. Some of them I didn't know I made because society made them for me. Some of them, my parents did for me. A huge problem with a lot of these decisions is that they're not easily undone, in many cases because society deliberately makes them difficult to undo. I can also say the same about decisions made at 16, or at 18, because I didn't just wake up one day on my birthday as a fully formed responsible person. (None of them as bad as getting pregnant, but still.) Also CW mentions grooming and a significant part of our society doesn't even really consider it to be abuse on a technicality, simply because no sexual act happens until technically the child reaches the age of consent. Although actually it is just as bad as other forms of CSA. > Well, imagine getting pregnant and married at 14 If we're talking about some idealized world, well maybe then marriage should also not be what it is now (if at all), and maybe it should be unacceptable that people become pregnant at 14. But weirdly enough, some parts of our society seem to be very interested in introducing global surveillance under the pretext of banning children from internet under the pretext of saving them from sexual abuse, and at the same time to be very interested in forcing the abused children to carry the pregnancy to term (as if this did not compound the abuse extremely, as if this did not constitute a separate form of abuse probably much worse than the rape itself). But thank you for your perspective, I never heard this reasoning about CSA being different from other forms of abuse before. Usually it goes more like that: "OBVIOUSLY sex is an extremely special thing so OBVIOUSLY sex work is not a real work but something entirely different and OBVIOUSLY child sexual abuse is not a real abuse but something entirely different so OBVIOUSLY we need to surveil the entire population to ensure that nobody younger than 21 never hears anything related to sex in the spaces we control and that no adult ever pays transactionally to another adult for sex in the places we control, and if you disagree then OBVIOUSLY you're a pedophile and rapist and support human trafficking".