And, look, I grew up around people like that, and it's really easy to make fun of them and beat on them as a cultural piñata, and honestly they deserve it just on principle even when it's wildly disproportionate But let's be honest about what we're congratulating ourselves for
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Alan Moore threw down this gauntlet about "free speech" -- "I'm a grown man who fantasizes about 14-year-old boys and girls fucking and I don't care who knows it and I'm rich and famous enough to sell a book about it" And the world at large just... kind of tiptoed past it
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Like we all just kind of pretend it didn't happen when discussing "Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen" and let it continue to be a "comics nerd" thing because the legal and moral issues involved legitimately will blow up many communities who all thought they had the same politics
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(See also: Half of the "hottest" content on AO3, and all of the content that AO3 explicitly fundraises for so they can have a legal team on call in case a government sends them a takedown notice for obscenity)
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GRRM, Stephen King, Philip Pullman also all wrote about underage sex in a way that was generally more prurient than expository. I pick those examples because no one struggles to get their books, so maybe the bottom line is we’re just societally ok with underage sex in general.
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This is a general conversation I don't think we're capable of having or really want to have -- hell, dropping the cowardly "we" here, *I* don't want to have it, I'm much more comfortable ignoring it
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