Okay, did I say it was okay for adults to have sex with children?
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Replying to @nextdoorruby @MelaKatie and
I am arguing that "enthusiastic consent workshops" (or if you prefer just "affirmative consent workshops") aimed at minors in the sex ed curriculum of a middle or high school are a vital and necessary tool to help kids stand up for themselves and navigate tense situations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nextdoorruby and
And I am arguing *against* the clique of social conservatives and TERFs who argue that because "children can't consent", any workshop telling children the concept of "consent" applies to them must be a pretext for a pedophile to groom them for sex, and should be shut down
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Replying to @nextdoorruby @MelaKatie and
No, that's one of the issues people need to talk and think about with consent, that it's a matter of asymmetrical power dynamics
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nextdoorruby and
I do not think that children can consent to sex with adults I don't think that this is because the concept of "consent" doesn't apply to them, I think it's because it DOES apply to them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nextdoorruby and
I think this is a fundamental left/right value split (or liberal/trad value split, or whatever you wanna call it) Rush Limbaugh's horrified "You think *anything* is okay as long as you *consent*" thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nextdoorruby and
I think the reason for an age of consent is just that, the issue *of consent* - that an adult has so much legal and social power over a minor that a minor cannot meaningfully consent to the consequences of sex with an adult I do NOT think it's a matter of "innocence" and "taint"
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A lot of the rhetoric around this presumes that a child is fundamentally "pure", "innocent", basically asexual And that to introduce sexuality into their lives is to "ruin" them, "corrupt" them (the old law is literally called "corruption of minors") I think this is fucked up
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