That’s generous of you to say so, aha. But if it helped at all, I’m glad.

Sorry for the rant, lol, it’s just maddening to hear that people have been trotting out this bunk argument to use a cudgel against others. Suddenly, fiction they don’t like is the only kind that’s bad n dangerous n a threat to society? Hm. Okay!!!

But yeah, saying erotic fictional content w/underage characters is somehow ‘normalizing’ IRL abuse is such a disingenuous take — normalizing to who? To the same adults who can somehow enjoy fictional noncon of adult characters w/out turning into rapists? Or to the minors who it Absolutely isn’t for?

that irl abuse is often so much more about abuse of power than purely about sexual attraction. (Just like abuse/assault of adults.)

And I think that shift in emphasis away from focusing on whether *actual harm* is being caused leads to the knee-jerk disgust reaction becoming the litmus test :/

But re: your point about harm, I think there’s also the issue that abuse of minors IRL is too often considered bad primarily bc it’s “gross” and not because it’s *actual* harm to an especially vulnerable human being. The emphasis is so often on the perceived perversion of the perp even tho we *know*

Right? I’d like to think that fellow enjoyers of similar tropes would be on that level of agreement — like you’re here, clearly you’ve done some of the mental homework? And yet still clinging to this “rules for thee but not for me” mentality… upsetting to see, tbh.

He’s legally the only one who can bully him! It’s in the contract! 😂

And I’m sorry you + your follower(s?) had to deal with that, because imo it’s a bad-faith attempt to make a scapegoat out of certain kinks/erotic content just so other people can feel morally secure in their own interests by having someone to frown down upon. Even if they don’t recognize it as such.

I think the panic over “I can’t be seen defending minor abuse!” is so strong that people will fully lean into cognitive dissonance before interrogating their hypocritical view that ppl who enjoy that content are somehow abusers/enablers but ppl who enjoy noncon with adults aren’t. Makes zero sense.

People are falling into the censorship headspace and masquerading it as activism / literally pulling a “what about the children” regarding ~fictional adult sexual media~ instead of simply curating their own spaces / enforcing their own boundaries around it and moving on? Like adults??

Tbh I think it’s just “this ‘bad’ fictional scenario makes me personally uncomfortable so I’m going to demonize it based on the justification of it being somehow Wildly Different than the other “bad” fiction I’m into, instead of recognizing that it’s all fiction and I don’t have to engage with it”

I snorted. But also aaaa :’)))