People ask themselves how our culture got to this point so devoid of compassion or understanding. People act surprised to see the rise of fascism happening, and think it's sudden.

When my posts blow up? It demonstrates how much hate lurks in the hearts of the average person. As I've told many people in private, I paint a target on myself intentionally. And I don't do much more than sass them, or reinforce my positions.

So you can see how eager they are to hurt people.

So you can see how little harm prevention means to them.

Well, here comes the hateful shitstorm that I expected would come.

Let's get the basics out of the way. Firstly, for the outrage fueled crowd:

psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/wome… If you managed to overcome your outrage enough to go further, and you're wondering what a "paraphilia" even is to begin with? Here's an excellent primer video on the subject from Dr. Lindsey Doe!

Happy Alice Day, to those who celebrate!

I figured, why not use today to unveil the YAP (Youth Attracted Person) pride flag I designed almost a year ago?

I wanted to stray from the oft used horizontal bars motif, but only a little. I wanted to retain some familiarity. The colors are symbolic and have roots in YAP culture with the original spiral designs being light blue for BLs and light pink for GLs, and yellow for gender neutral YAPs, pan YAPs, et cetera. White is for the ace YAPs. The purple is for non-binary YAPs and young people.

People discovered Elon Musks Twitter alt, and he is as insecure and uncomfortable as you can imagine.

https://twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1650644687349268481

I think most sexuality is flexible. Though it's different for everyone. I view sexuality in a 4th dimensional spectrum; one that includes time. In my paradigm, sexuality is music.

I refer to it as the Sexual Symphony: Everyone has their own beat. Their own instruments, their own lyrics and language; their own textures, moods and tones. And over the course of our song, the music changes. Instruments are introduced or fade away. New lyrics, or rhythm changes.

When you don't teach young people about consent, they end up getting hurt because they don't know how to respect one others' consent:

"A Qualitative Analysis of Beliefs About Sexual Consent Among High School Students"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… The maxim that "kids can't consent" doesn't protect kids, it does the opposite. By merely telling young people "they can't", they're deprived of tools they'll need to protect themselves now; but also later on as adults.

Understanding consent can SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Yes, but the entire way our culture frames attraction in general need to be re-examined. Attraction is not to blame for abuse, the abuser is.

I don't believe any attraction is unhealthy or destructive. It is our behavior, not our attractions, that can harm others or ourselves.

https://twitter.com/creamydemons/status/1618325136503078913

We do not treat people attracted to red hair as more of a threat to gingers. If you'd learned a friend found feet attractive, would you start keeping your shoes on around them suddenly?

Sounds silly, doesn't it? So why do we treat any attraction like that?

⚠ CW: Racism, bigotry and violence ⚠

Been looking into the Portland shooter aka "Polybun" or "Polyhead" and it seems they've had a long long history of toxic and bigoted opinions and behaviors...

🧵: First of all we should establish a connection between Polybun in various communities. Here we see the name Polybun showing up in Flayrah comments after the tragic death of Furp in 2009:

flayrah.com/3248/furp-kill…