re: #191 Decatur Deb

Reads like standard dumb libertarian over-reach, but a stretch to make it pro-child porn.

Not a stretch to include it as pro-crime, though. And child pornography is criminal activity, depending on the country. For instance, in some countries it may be legal for 16 yr olds to give consent to it, but not in the US.

Wouldn’t surprise me if the writer wasn’t a 30-something who likes to screw 13 yr olds and can’t maintain a relationship with an adult.

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people (and it’s almost always been men or non-thinking women) argue that the age of consent should be lowered, usually to much less than it already is. There is something mentally unbalanced about people who cannot confine their sexual urges to relationships with consenting adults and continually seek out young people who cannot give consent legally. What that tells me is that on the whole, but not entirely, that child sex is an extension of sexual oppression, not “liberation” for the child, as pedos like to argue.

And many use religion as a basis for their pedophilia, too. Who can forget the Mormon fundie Warren Jeffs and others, along with the child-brides and arranged marriages of minors in other religions?