• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “barely legal” is such a disingenuous attack.

    Is it legal? Yes. What’s the problem? Something will always be “barely legal”. Even if we decide that it’s immoral and make it illegal, something else will still always be “barely legal”.

    If you think something is immoral, then just say so. If a bunch of consenting adults do something that doesn’t harm anyone, mind your own business.

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      5 days ago

      Honestly, the obsession with 18 Specifically is also disingenuous. Many countries consider 16 to be an appropriate age. Some consider 18 to be too young. This obsession of “18 okay. 17 A LITERAL INFANT!!!” is just ridiculous. And I would bet money that this comment will have people clutching their pearls and accusing me of being a predator.

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        5 days ago

        it’s specifically stupid when it’s high schoolers dating, omg one is 18 and one is 17 !!!

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          4 days ago

          The US has literally charged teenagers for distributing CP, because they exchanged pictures with each other… The entire country is just fuckin’ bonkers.

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        5 days ago

        More than that, if the legal age of consent was 40, then 41 would be “barely legal”. Why do people use the term negatively (or positively for that matter). It’s just so arbitrary.

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          4 days ago

          Because it’s moral posturing. I saw a post not long ago for an advertisement for alcohol-free beer. Clearly targeted at late teens and early 20’s, and it was called “Under-Age beer! Great for driving!” And there were swarms of people complaining that “Advertising beer to children is awful!”

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        4 days ago

        Believe it or not, most of the US has the age of consent below 18, even before factoring in Romeo and Juliette laws. I’m sure there are some restrictions on making use of that information, use of sex toys being banned being one of them if I recall and making porn being banned until 18 regardless, but 18 is hardly a universal thing even here.

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      4 days ago

      i mean…still scouted girls while they were underage/in highschools iirc, the bar to beat is running international pedophile sex-trafficking blackmail ring though so…sure. better than epstein

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        4 days ago

        do you have a point here?

        if a teenage girl has a choice between college or posing for playboy, the studious teenage girls aren’t going to choose playboy, and if they do, it’s to fund their college education. the promiscuous, body confident girls are DEFINITELY going to choose playboy.

        good for them.

        who the fuck cares about this other than annoying, self-righteous fucks who try and speak for every single person? it’s their decision. if someone came up to me right now and said ‘eat a weeks worth of my turds and i’ll give you 100k’ i probably wouldn’t fucking do it.

        posing nude isn’t really the same thing as this but you act like it is. the girl who posed nude probably landed some rich husband or possibly gained a modeling career. i doubt many of them ended up on welfare and in the end their path was less exploitative than a typical lower-class life in america, tits or not.

        those girls exploited the system with their bodies–something that women give away for far less every single day; your average only fans model makes less than a playboy centerfold.

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          4 days ago

          if a teenage girl has a choice between college or posing for playboy, the studious

          You have no idea what you’re talking about. Plenty of girls with opportunity and means for a better life get abused and manipulated into joining the sex industry every day. You don’t have the slightest understanding of the sex industry and why or why not some girls join.

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          i’m just saying there was alot more to rhe playboy empire than just…nudie magazines. plenty of girls were effecticely kept hostage in that mansion

          only compared to scale of running international pedophile/rape trafficking ring does what hughe did look good by comparison. he drew the line at raping kids apparently, hardly praise worthy