A lot of societal distress seems to be related to the denial of child sexuality, and consequently the imagined need to protect children from exposure to sexuality.

Whether it be concerns over "grooming", "child molesters", or recently, "child trafficking", there is a never ending moral-panic centered around the mistaken belief that children exist in this state of sexual "innocence" and need to be protected from sexual matters.

Many academic textbooks on human sexuality even outright ignore or deny the existence of juvenile sexuality, despite long-standing evidence, both empirical and subjective, that children are sexual.

But why? Children are sexual, much like other mental faculties which are accentuated by the process of puberty, sexuality does not appear during puberty. Even fetuses have been observed masturbating and experiencing orgasm in utero. Children are born sexual, and like other psychological traits, sexuality develops throughout juvenility. Sexuality does not appear suddenly during puberty. Denial of this obvious fact likely has deleterious effects the psychological development of children, and is likely the cause of the modern day crisis of inceldom and transvestism, among other sexual perversions.

This is one issue that both the left and the right are wrong on, and if anyone speaks openly or honestly about it, they are accused of being a pedo, and ostracized. But the topic has to be addressed, because nefarious actors such as the government and various NGOs hijack fears over this topic to justify political oppression, blackmail, extortion, etc. For example, every new law mandating internet censorship ALWAYS uses "we need to protect children from sexual exposure" as a justification, like recent British censorship laws.

kys pedo

>>511361683 (OP)
The issue is retards

We call them childs to be inclusive, retards are in constant sexual danger

>>511361683 (OP)
>schizo pro pedo rant
says the person who's never been groomed

>>511361683 (OP)
One answer: it's too easy for adults to use their innocence to their advantage.
9 year-old girls think about dolls and homework, not cocks.

Sexual abuse can have profoundly damaging effects on children, impacting their emotional, psychological, and physical well-being. Victims often experience feelings of shame, guilt, and confusion, which can lead to long-term issues such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and trust difficulties. They may also struggle with behavioral problems, academic challenges, and difficulties forming healthy relationships in the future. In some cases, sexual abuse can cause physical injuries or health problems, and without proper intervention and support, these children may carry the trauma into adulthood, affecting their overall development and quality of life.

>>511362044
yeah honestly pedophilia is disgusting
this shouldn't be a hot take OP

>>511361683 (OP)
Well, because pedophiles are an easy universally hated target. To be clear, they deserve it. But that makes even just hypothetical pedophiles very effective scapegoats. Anyone declaring "I hate pedophiles" will be celebrated. Anyone declaring "this law will stop pedophiles" will garner mass bipartisan support. Oh you have real, valid arguments against it? Why are you trying to justify pedophilia, you must be a pedophile and therefore your entirely valid criticisms dont count.

>>511362053
GPT-gen but you got the spirit

>>511361853
>>511362021
>>511362044
Accepting the fact that child sexuality exists does not make you a pedophile. If anything, denying the existence of child sexuality makes it more likely that children get sexually abused, because they would lack the vocabulary, or feel ashamed, to talk about it.

>>511361683 (OP)
One genuinely insane thing is any discussion on the concept of "age of consent". Personally i think it's reductive, a 14 and 16 year old having sex is totally fine and a 45 and 19 year old kinda isn't.

But if you even bring up "age of consent", you're automatically branded as a pedo who must personally want to fuck 15 year olds, because the person branding you as such gets social brownie points for "calling you out".

It's entirely circular reasoning: You can't think the age of consent should be lower because that would make you a pedo, but the only reason that's considered pedophilia is that the age of consent isn't that low.

>>511361683 (OP)
>Why is child sexuality so contentious in today's society?
Feminists in the 1970s. From a history on the topic:
>In the 1970s, the feminist movement raised consciousness first about rape and then incest, two problem areas they believed society had not taken seriously enough up to that time, Feminist ideas about the nature of rape served as the model for conceptualizing incest. which in turn came to serve as the model for understanding all forms of age-discrepant sexual relations involving minors (Finkelhor, 1984; Okami, 1990). Thus, the anti-incest campaign was a central factor in the evolution of thinking about child sexual abuse (CSA).
>Anti-incest advocates helped to revive Freud's seduction theory, which had lain dormant for seven decades (Frontline, 1995a; Nathan & Snedeker, 1995; Pendergrast, 1996). Seduction theory held that childhood sexual seduction is the cause of all adult neuroses (Crews, 1998; Esman, 1994 ). Freud claimed that seduction is so disturbing that the psyche tends to repress memories of it. Though submerged, he maintained, these memories nevertheless express themselves in the form of symptoms, which can only be relieved by bringing the memories back to conscious awareness. Freud quickly abandoned this theory, however, claiming instead that wish for seduction rather than actual seduction produce repressed memories.
>By the mid-l970s, feminist advocates challenged his decision as lacking in moral courage, vowing that victims would no longer be silenced (Crews, 1998; Frontline. 1995a). As a consequence of this advocacy, Freud's unitary concept of pathogenesis reemerged, and therapists increasingly came to view the evocation and abreaction of repressed memories as the sine qua non of therapeutic success (Esman, 1994 ).

>>511362340
Child sexuality is curiosity. They don't know what to do with them. You hear of little girls who grind themselves on things, but they don't relate it to men's cocks. Little boys play with themselves and are sometimes amused when their dicks get hard, but they're not thinking about pussy, and they don't know what an orgasm feels like. or that it even exists or is the goal of sex.

>>511361683 (OP)
Really not the time for this dude

>>511361683 (OP)
/pol/ is retarded on Human Sexuality, simple as.

The current view of sex & age held by much of /pol/ & most of society. The view that is enforced by the media, the police & the moderators of this board by the fact that discussions on this very topic are frequently banned & censored, is that humans are little children & are thus damaged by anything that is sexual in nature before they reach the age of 18.
I can understand the view from a father's perspective, as I am a father myself. I do not want to see my little girl grow up, but that is inevitable, and for me to be a good father to her, I cannot delude myself with obvious falsehoods.

That falsehood is, is that humans, reach sexual maturity at 18 & not a moment before.
Let me ask anons with sisters, when was the first time you overheard anything about her bleeding, that also happened before she was 18, I assume.
How old were you when you started crushing on the girls in your class & then got disappointed when you overheard them talk about the boyfriends they already had?
You were all below 18, I assume.

Also, I can guess that, for some of you, were around 18 and in your early 20ies, you were approached by girls that were younger than you.
Young enough for any sort of relationship to be considered illegal. 17, 16, 15, 14, or maybe even 13, 12, & in extreme cases as young as 11 or 10.

The simple biological fact is that as soon as girls bleed, they are from a natural point, ready to breed & this influences their behavior profoundly. They will try to seek out prospective partners themselves, at an age far younger than most people think is possible these days & as a father, it would be foolish of you to be ignorant of that.

So no, girls are not little innocent asexual princessorinos until the day they are 18. Biology is a thing, and it matures them sexually way before that.

Dawn is cute

>>511362842
That's entirely just because they don't know those things exist, which is because they're sheltered from any display or explanation of sexuality for most of their childhood. If you literally had one conversation where you explained it to them, they would have sexuality in exactly the same way you do, not just "curiosity"

>>511363348
Typical pedo loli cp posting retard. Let me guess, you voted for Trump ?

>>511361683 (OP)
>Pokemon fan is a pedo supporter
Kek, like pottery

>>511363674
>Literally being a feminist footsoldier for old hags.
High AOC is for one a mate supression strategy by older females that view younger females as a sexual threat to them.

>>511362754
>From the mid- to late 1980s and continuing well into the 1990s, thousands of mostly female adult patients began "recovering" memories of CSA while in therapy. Typically, the patient entered therapy complaining of unhappiness, but not knowing why. After being told that CSA might be the cause, encouraged to remember CSA experiences, and advised to read books such as Bass and Davis' (1988) The Courage to Heal, vague memories of abuse might develop, which would later coalesce as vivid, detailed memories after many more therapy sessions.
>In thousands of such cases, patients proceeded to sue their assumed perpetrator (e.g., father), wreaking havoc in as many families (Jaroff, 1993; Ofshe & Watters, 1993; Prendergrast, 1996). Frontline's (1995a) documentary "Divided Memories" provided numerous vivid examples. In one, a young woman not knowing how to relate to her mother went into therapy. After several months, with the encouragement of her therapist, she developed memories that eventually crystallized into recollections of satanic rituals involving her parents and grandparents. She was diagnosed as suffering from multiple personality disorder with twenty-seven alters. With her therapist's support, she sued her parents for $20 million. In a deposition, she claimed that her mother inserted a broomstick into her vagina, as well as spiders, wires, and vegetables, and that her father sexually assaulted her with tools from a hardware store. When reminded that she had perfect school attendance and pediatric reports, the daughter reacted, "Oh, that doesn't matter:'
This is what antis actually believe

Loli is good