[ SECRET POST #5187 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5187 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Gnosia]


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[I Care a Lot (on Netflix)]


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[X-Files]


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[Lolita Fashion Youtuber Tyler Willis]


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09. [SPOILERS for The Story of Yanxi Palace]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia/child molestation]

























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No. Safe sex is a hygienic practice to guard against certain kinds of risk, IE, diseases. I think that social mores against relationships with significant power imbalances are a similar kind of hygienic practice to guard against different kinds of risk, IE, abusive relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

ummm significant power imbalances...that's pretty vague. Covers a lot of ground. Certainly a lot more than the OPs post. Your argument is toothless. You certainly aren't saying that a happy one-night stand between an 18 year old and a 22 year old that results in no trauma on either side will cause diseased hygiene.

[(Anonymous)]

da

But what does that mean? Where are the lines? You could say "age gap", but what's the math on that? Is 24-18 okay? Yes/no? Why? Is 23-17 okay? Yes/no? Why?

You could say "teacher and student" as another example, but do you give passes for nontraditional students and their professors because their age is closer? Or no?

The lines are a lot blurrier than you're making them out to be.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is, 1. You’re talking about lines drawn in the sand, here, and 2. Is there anything practicable in what you’re saying? What do you propose is the appropriate way for people to respond to a forty-year-old man dating an eighteen-year-old, for instance? What is a beneficial and constructive response to that situation? What level and type of societal opprobrium is constructive (if any)? And whose business is it in the first place? The parents of the younger party? The older party's social circle? work associates? Passing acquaintances who cotton on that the older party is a "cradle robber"?

I don't feel that we, as a society, should be cavalier about middle-aged people getting involved with people who are newly adults. They are relationships that come with red flags pre-attached, so to speak. I simply disagree with this notion that such relationships can and should be summarily condemned as abusive. It may look like a duck, but if it doesn't also act like a duck, then declaring it a duck is premature.