Certain adults seem to react very negatively to this Not in the direction that would make sense -- "Kids can't consent" and therefore kids can't touch anyone or be touched ever But that "hugging is harmless" and therefore nonconsensual hugs are just fine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @megawhelmed and
There's been a LOT of discussion about how adults casually violating kids -- "Now I know you're not a hugger, but still!" "Jimmy, don't be rude to Grandma, give her a hug and kiss!" -- primes them for freezing up and being unable to articulate consent in sexual situations later
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Replying to @arthur_affect @megawhelmed and
And apparently the anti-"enthusiastic consent" people refuse to believe this narrative and think by even bringing the word "consent" into being hugged and kissed by your cheek-pinching grandma we're perverting the innocence of childhood or whatever The disagreeement runs deep
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Replying to @arthur_affect @megawhelmed and
This is relevant to this discussion why? Who is arguing this here?
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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @megawhelmed and
If minors can't consent to sex, is there anything they can consent to? Can they consent to being touched, or hugged, or picked up off the ground?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
Because you're out here saying "Minors can't consent" as this absolute rule and that has a lot of implications I know that if you want to pick an adult up bodily off the ground you have to have their consent and if you don't it's assault Is it okay to do that to a child
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Replying to @IsobelN17154304 @arthur_affect and
Becauae minors are having sex with each other, always have, and always will. Now, what are the ramifications if they are unable to consent to that?
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Replying to @VivJaye @IsobelN17154304 and
What is the difference between two 15 year olds choosing to have sex, and one fifteen year old forcing another to have sex, if no 15 year olds can consent to sex with each other?
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Replying to @VivJaye @IsobelN17154304 and
Your defence of children having sex with each other is that if it wasn’t fine we’d have no right to prosecute adults having sex with children?
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No, it's saying that we generally choose not to prosecute them both for being mutual rapists We only prosecute if one of them actually *is* a rapist, i.e. the other one... did not consent If that's a meaningless concept then there's no basis to make a distinction
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