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Re: Data Summary Request

Posted by Pharmakon on 2024-September-1 10:55:33, Sunday
In reply to Re: Data Summary Request posted by BLueRibbon on 2024-September-1 08:10:52, Sunday

The boy-girl disparity probably means we need to argue our case based on girls, since we're not likely to get different rules for girls and boys, even if those might seem more rational.

"Not necessarily harmful" and "barely more likely to be harmful than consensual AASC or MMSC" both seem to me significantly less burdensome showings than "very low risk of harm." The latter comes close to trying to prove a negative.

The Finnish survey data bear directly on subjective reaction, not harm, but if half or two-thirds of girls who experience age gap sex do not have negative subjective reactions, I think that calls into question CSA ideology's claim of necessary harm. Similarly, if these data suggest subjective reactions to AMSC, AASC, and MMSC are broadly similar -- and it seems they do -- this makes claims that AMSC poses an especially great risk of harm seem less plausible.

But arguing that AMSC should be governed by the same rules we already apply to AASC and MMSC, imho, does not require us to make the claim that the risk of harm in all these cases is very low (even if we think it actually is). Making that claim entails challenging the accounts of women and girls who have experienced sex as harmful, which amounts to directly taking on the whole #MeToo narrative.

When men do not respect the sexual agency of women or girls, harm can result. We don't need to deny that this happens or that it is bad. We only need to argue that prohibiting a whole category of sexual relationships, like AMSC, is neither a rational nor an effective means of addressing this problem.

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon

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