Ehhhhh… The question isn’t if such people exist, but in what proportion. They’re saying, by reference to other sexual behaviors being legalized/illegalized, that it appears that the majority is relief valve.
OFC we cannot say for certainty without multiple studies, but they’re saying it seems like the proportions skew in favor of relief valve, even across cultures.
I agree with them. The intuition seems to be relief valve, whether or not there would be a reduction in offenses.
However, I do not think normalizing the sexualization of children would help society in the long run. Sure, pedos should not be made completely taboo, or else there won’t be help available. Sure, if you thought lgbtq people were similarly ‘bad’, you would say the same things about them…
… BUT kids will never, practically by definition, NEVER be intellectually or emotionally mature enough to justify pedo, whereas informed, consenting adults doing what they want in private is perfectly fine.
Ehhhhh… The question isn’t if such people exist, but in what proportion. They’re saying, by reference to other sexual behaviors being legalized/illegalized, that it appears that the majority is relief valve.
OFC we cannot say for certainty without multiple studies, but they’re saying it seems like the proportions skew in favor of relief valve, even across cultures.
I agree with them. The intuition seems to be relief valve, whether or not there would be a reduction in offenses.
However, I do not think normalizing the sexualization of children would help society in the long run. Sure, pedos should not be made completely taboo, or else there won’t be help available. Sure, if you thought lgbtq people were similarly ‘bad’, you would say the same things about them…
… BUT kids will never, practically by definition, NEVER be intellectually or emotionally mature enough to justify pedo, whereas informed, consenting adults doing what they want in private is perfectly fine.