There’s a big difference between weird or questionable and criminal or abusive. Once someone is over 18—especially in their 20s—they have legal and moral agency. A 23-year-old dating a 40-year-old might raise eyebrows, but it’s not pedophilia, and calling it that cheapens what real victims go through.

While I think it’s weird that a 21-23-year-old dating an older person is really weird and inappropriate, I can’t compare an older adult dating a 23-year-old to a literal paedophile who goes after literal children; they aren’t the same. One person deserves to die, and the other doesn’t. The one dating a 23-year-old is a little weird and deserves a side eye; the other deserves to be locked up in prison forever.

Stop comparing this to a paedophile; one is very weird and gross (but the two people consenting have the right to choose to be weird and gross), the other truly evil.

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    I think it’s weird that a 21-23-year-old dating an older person is really weird and inappropriate…

    Honestly, often for younger women it’s a romp with somone that knows what they’re doing.

    The BEST lay of my 20 years old life - and i’m now married for 30+ years - was a 45 year old guy and we hit it off for a few glorious months of sex that was incredible. Man knew EXACTLY what he was doing and twisted me up into positions I couldn’t get into now if the husband and I tried…

    The whole idea that it’s unnatural or weird is an odd one. I worked for a ton of men that worked like slaves though their youth to get successful and in their 40’s finally found young women to start beautiful families with.

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    Pedophilia isn’t the same thing as being a child rapist. Most pedophiles never offend, and the majority of people in prison for child rape aren’t pedophiles - they’re just rapists who target children because they’re easier victims. Feeling sexual attraction toward children, through no fault of one’s own, doesn’t automatically mean a person lacks a moral compass. Demonizing them or wishing them dead doesn’t protect anyone - it only makes it harder for those struggling with these feelings to seek help. Their lives are already miserable enough as it is.

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    So why are you putting in so much effort into multiple posts about people in their early 20s having sex?

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    Correct, I will take it one even further. This applies to anyone 18+.

    You see that hard part about begin an adult is that you have to deal with the consequences of your decisions.

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    Did you do a complete 180 out of nowhere or what am I missing? Didn’t you just recently want Superman to forcefully prevent 21 year olds from having sex with older people? What happened to “21 year olds shouldn’t be considered adults and can’t consent”?

  • Ur missing the point if ur a young male this is a useful narrative as it discourages ur completion with older men who have infinitely more resources than yourself.

    Left wing people also dislike it as they are stuck in a viewpoint where they see everything as a power structure with oppressive overlords. They then transfer this across to every inter human experience they observe.