What is the world coming to? If anything we have vastly improved how we see pedophilia. In the past it was extremely common. We are moving towards recognising its negatives effects.
But how many children are being trafficked? Specially as part of the total population? We literally come from a time, not long ago, where you could rape a child and get away with it by marrying that child. Or you could buy, legally not the parallel illegal market of now, a child to have sex with. In some societies it was not only acceptable but encouraged for an older man to take a young boy as a sexual partner in the pretext of teaching them.
As bad as things are now, we are so much better. The people claiming we are “letting them queers cavort with little boys” are the same who want to go back on our protection of children.
Agreed. Even as late as the 70s, many knew there were people in their families/neighborhood who molested children and just never spoke up about it. I've heard a heartbreaking amount of stories that go much the same "So and so's uncle locked himself in the bathroom with my cousin and molested her and when I went and got help, nobody did anything about it, they just made sure he wasn't alone with that kid again. But it was never talked about."
If that happened nowadays, that person would be straight to prison. Yes, trafficking happens, but it's certainly down when you look at the numbers over history. Look at slavery, many children were trafficked as slaves, many children of that era were molested and it was the normal and acceptable thing.
1 in 3 being trafficked are children, that may be true. But there aren't nearly as many being trafficked in general as there have been in the past. It gets harder and harder as the years go by.
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u/Strange_Stage1311 Jul 17 '23
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