really good essay by jesse walker, we're actually a historical nadir of social acceptance of adults having sex with children, but how we got there was not a straightforward story of progress
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this piece is also a model of how to write about views and opinions we rightfully find repulsive in a way that's analytical, historical, and contextualized but without veering into apologetics, it's actually quite rare to balance that stuff in a satisfying way
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Wow that was one hell of a read and soo interesting! History used to be a lot more Noncey than now. Nobody ever mentions it but the late queen met her husband to be at 13… in the 30’s.
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I get the sense that even this little wave of pro-pedophile activism in the '60s was a kind of extinction burst. Child marriage was common into the late 19th century. The turning point seems to have come in the '40s-'50s as the concept of the "teenager" become entrenched.
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