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Felson -- not Rind -- on the Finnish Data
Posted by Pharmakon on 2024-September-1 01:24:54, Sunday
The results show that girls were much more likely to report negative reactions than boys. Girls were almost four times more likely than boys to use a negative adjective to describe the encounter (46 vs. 12%) and more than three times as likely to report a negative appraisal (35 vs. 11%). This is from Felson et al, "Reactions of Boys and Girls to Sexual Abuse and to Sexual Encounters with Peers." Rind's paper is an answer to Felson's CSA ideology, but Felson himself can't help undercutting that ideology because the Finnish kids he's writing about just don't agree with it. Yes, girls are more likely than boys experience age gap sex negatively, but most of them do not and hardly any boys do. That is completely inconsistent with the "abuse" terminology Felson attaches to it. Plus appraisal of the experience should be much more persuasive than choice of adjectives. If the takeaway is that 65 percent of girls who had age gap sex liked it, how is it consistent with (for example) feminist orthodoxy on abortion and the right of females (I don't think much of even orthodox feminist thinking limits this to adult females -- orthodox feminism certainly does not limit abortion rights to adults) to control their own bodies? It isn't, and that's where CSA feminism contradicts orthodox feminism -- on the question of choice. My Body, My Choice has to mean primarily choices about sexuality -- abortion is only a subspecies of the range of those choices. If half of girls who are experiencing age gap sex are not experiencing it negatively, it simply does not call for the level of protectionism CSA ideology demands. Now, it's also true that CSA protectionism is even more irrational as applied to boys. But many feminists are understandably suspicious of any privileging of male interests. Historically (and in many places still), boys are free to play around, while the virginity of girls is fetishized. Adoption of any policy that echoes that longstanding regime is a masculinist fantasy. hugzu ;-p  [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |
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