• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    There are a lot of pedophilia-adjacent paraphilias. It’s not just size difference.

    There’s the fantasy of having a partner who is innocent and easy to dominate, as per the born sexy yesterday trope. Entire movies have been made about this.

    There’s an intrinsic sexual attraction to youth, advantage of which is taken by the fashion industry, using children in compromising poses to market their wares. Underaged kids presented as sex objects has been an unregulated marketing tool for over a century now.

    There’s interest in teen coming-of-age scenarios, cinema of which was rampant in the late 1970s to 1980s, which did not shy away from sexuality. Mass market erotica in the 1970s featured teen sex, which became more regulated in later years.

    There’s those interested in child sexual experimentation. Children explore their sexuality with their peers, and this is regarded as normal and even healthy according to pediatric consensus. Here in the states, though, we’re puritanical AF, and it’s commonplace for parents to freak out when they catch kids (their own or otherwise) fooling around or exchanging peeks at their bits.¹ I can’t speak for causality but the US has an ageplay community that occupies its niche in the kink sector.

    By far, (according to the very few studies we have on the subject) most people who have an interest in child sex or teen sex scenarios either don’t pursue to explore it at all, or do so with deliberate care to avoid harm and wrongdoing. Since the 1990s, the public has become more aware of the harm that can be caused by sexualizing children and teens before they are autonomously ready, and most folk instead seek to explore their own fetishes in safety with consenting adults. Sadly, there are predators out there, but like other violent criminals in the population, they’re the exception and not the norm. (At the same time, our society struggles to be sufficiently concerned about children’s welfare in general, with food insecurity, family insecurity, housing insecurity and healthcare insecurity being at critical highs in the US.)

    Incidentally, for a while now, Twitter’s CSAM problem has gotten worse since Musk turned it into X. And xAI’s CSAM problem is significantly worse than those of competing AI services. Musk isn’t willing to correct either matter with additional safeguards or human moderation, rather just yells at his user base and points to the xAI ToS. And also Musk’s disclaimers about his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein being only brief and casual are not convincing, and smack of protesting too much and too prematurely. (Kinda like Melania Trump’s disclaimer.)

    ¹ In the age of cell phones, police and courts of law will bust, convict and imprison underaged teen lovers who are caught sexting each other for creating and distributing CSAM, especially if those images escape into the public. Even if it’s of themselves. Even if they were originally intended to be private. A few states have since passed legislation to allow teens to sext each other so long as they show reasonable caution to keep their pics private, but in most states, police and school administrators still freak out over personal phone snaps of naked teens.

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      Pointing to your reasoning for why people get attracted to young or underage children (below 18),

      I think of this a lot:

      While we have decided 18 is the age the people become “grown ups” and I totally agree that having sex with minors is totally bad and unacceptable in today’s society, the human race’s age of sex has always started from around 9 for females and 14 for males. Hell, 3, 4 generations before us would be married and have kids by 13-15 so it’s not really that far.

      Thousands of years, men would marry and reproduce with girls as young as 9. And for their situation and time, we honestly can’t say it was particularly wrong. They needed to reproduce as much as possible as soon as possible because of population and life expectancy.

      So these stuff are etched into our genetics and we have to fight it and wipe it away slowly in many generations.

      I know some people might hate hearing this. And again, pedophilia and sex with minors is horrible and I’m not justifying it. Just a thought.

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    Isn’t this the guy who was begging to be invited to that kid-fucking island?

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    The call is coming from inside the house on that one. Elon is a diddler for sure.

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        “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk wrote in an email to Epstein in November 2012. In another in December 2013, he asked, “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

        On Christmas Day he asked an infamous pedophile about attending his “wildest” party.

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        It’s guilty until proven innocent with these people because they’ve made it so thats how we have to do it. And he has been proven very far from innocent.

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          There are a dozen legitimate reasons to dislike Elon Musk, why declare him a pedophile without concrete evidence? Just makes the community and platform look dumb.

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            Theres enough evidence that is decidedly not being investigated by the US government that is out there in plain fucking sight that the only way for a reasonable person to look at this, until the powers that be actually decide to show us they are going to investigate and punish these people, is to look at these bits of evidence from the Epstein files and assume guilt until proven otherwise. Any other assumption is just pure, societally detrimental madness.

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      Usually, with the clown and clown-adjacent nutjobs: it mostly is. Sadly so, I might add.

      This is just a cynical reply, I actually don’t know and hope not.

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      Same for very short, petite women. I’ve had my fair share (for fun acrobatic reasons, not weird pedo reasons) and I’ve heard some stories.

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        Man people really do not understand what pedo means. Pede distinctualizes how prepubescent people look (fat distributions). There’s also Ebo and another one which references teenagers. The transition to looking like an adult happens around 16.

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    It’s basically what China did to “eliminate poverty” they just made the floor so low no one was under it.