Harm versus 'My Body'

Abortion is not a harm argument. It's fundamentally a choice argument, an argument about agency. Why argue about adults who like kids if you can argue about kids who like adults? If kid-adult sex is not fundamentally different from kid-kid sex or adult-adult sex, then there is no need for a radically different set of rules. And if half the girls who are fucking men (and it's mostly men, on this evidence) are making a free choice, how is that "choice" different from "choice" as it is used in the abortion debate? Our obsession with "feminists" as our oppressors has kept us from exploiting this inconsistency in the orthodox feminist stance, one which potentially places CSA ideology in the camp of virginity policing, an essential goal of patriarchal oppression. And what the Finnish survey shows is that, at least up until 2013, girls were on our side in this. Banning age gap sex is not supported by a majority of female youth, or at least in 2013 it wasn't in Finland. This means female youth are at least potentially on our side. They need to be propagandized about this as an issue of choice, emphasizing that reproductive rights and free choice of sexual partners are not separable. Yes, adult feminists will resort to claiming disgust and power imbalance, but the Finnish data suggests strongly that female youth who engage in age gap sex do not view things that way. We need to encourage them to assert their sexual agency, as they did in answering the survey questions Felson and Rind analyzed. hugzu ;-p