Thread by @lacroicsz

large numbers of people are beginning to recognize intuitively that the complete liberalization of attitudes towards sex is enabling a climate that endangers children. sure, expression of this may not always be the most articulate but that doesn’t make it a “moral panic”

the Very Smart and Nuanced do not want to reckon with the implications of liberal sexual (lack of) morality, because A. it’s gross and scary and B. they have invested so much in the idea that attaching meaning and morality to sex is oppressive and outdated

but seemingly from every angle, the detachment of sex and the body from nature, responsibility, and meaning has logically resulted in an ideology that can’t distinguish the action of sex from any other action, or the body from any other matter subject to one’s will

it’s not difficult to see where it leads. if rape is no different than being forced to get a job, then what is the argument for how child sexual abuse is worse than being forced to clean your room? genuinely, what answer do they have other then “muh right wing moral panic”?

if the body and sex are so meaningless that a child who believes in the tooth fairy can consent to future infertility, inability to orgasm, and inability to have intimate relationships, what is the argument as to why a child can’t consent to sexual acts?

“well child abuse is bad obviously” isn’t good enough if the ideology you are popularizing does not support that conclusion.

clearly, we lack a consensus on how to answer these questions, and people are picking up on the dangers that lie ahead if the logical conclusions of disembodied, hedonistic attitudes towards sex continue to proliferate.

this is what people mean by “grooming” and warnings that society is “normalizing pedophilia”

it’s not an argument that leftists all literally want to rape children

it’s an expression of the increasing loss of societal norms and principles that explain why abusing children is wrong

it’s a warning that the normalization of prostitution, pornography, and child transgenderism is ushering in norms that excuse and enable child abuse

you may think “that’s insane, society will never get to the point where raping kids is okay”

but look around you. would anybody 50 years ago DREAM of transing a kid?

there are already those who believe rape is no worse than getting a job, and they’re winning peoples minds