Suppose you have a 13 year old child dying of a terminal illness, and who makes a final wish to lose their virginity. Is it ethical for the Make A Wish Foundation to hire them a prostitute?
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
the question is totally unrelated to the actual quandary at hand, fwiw. whether it would be ethical to hire a sex worker is neither here nor there; the question isn't about the ethics of sex work, it's asking if raping children is only wrong if they live to be traumatized
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Replying to @ebruenig @Aella_Girl
@DrDavidLey What's the word on adults who had sex at age 13 with similarly aged kids? In your experience do these people, looking back on the event, consider themselves traumatized? (As opposed to if it had been an adult, likely trusted, exploiting them.)1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Replying to @Ikonizontes @AshleyBlakeLCSW and
And remember, susan Clancy was driven from the United States for pointing out these uncomfortable truths. She now lives in Central America.
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Replying to @DrDavidLey @Ikonizontes and
Dang, somebody should let the Catholic Church in on these ""uncomfortable truths,"" they could've saved millions in settlements for all the harm they apparently didn't cause
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Replying to @ebruenig @DrDavidLey and
Shush now, Liz, a doctor has come here to settle the argument using expert advice conspicuously screengrabbed from Wikipedia
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Replying to @KabbalahHarris @ebruenig and
All yall misrepresenting her arguments, I read the book. She doesn't argue that no trauma is caused, but that the event itself often is not experienced as traumatic.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @KabbalahHarris and
By the child, right, because the child often doesn't understand what is happening, which is the entire argument for why we shouldn't be involving ourselves sexually with children. It's in their development that their exploitation becomes clear to them, and the horror pans out.
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Replying to @ebruenig @Aella_Girl and
For what it's worth, there are a lot of things you can do to a child that the child will accept as normal until the child is old enough to compare his or her experiences with those of the gen pop, such as beating them. Anger and resentment often surge in adulthood for that reason
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Sure, so why say she's arguing something that would excuse the catholic church's abuses? she's not.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @KabbalahHarris and
As you can see in the thread, the tweet I was responding to is now deleted. Sensibly! If we all agree that Clancy's point is just sort of unrelated to the conversation at hand and dubious at any rate, then we're good.
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Replying to @ebruenig @Aella_Girl and
Yeah, I'm sorry again. For what it's worth, you just said what I was trying to say better than I did.
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