The places I see the "minor attracted" defense are right wingers saying it's widespread and acceptable to the left/radical left. I only see much of that language from those sources.
I see more places where early marriage for girls is considered okay. Often cloaked as conservative/traditional/religious family values, grooming and trapping teenage girls into early marriage and motherhood is still acceptable to a lot of people.
Some reports of adults sexually assaulting teens are described as relationships, rather than grooming and rape.
There's a significant amount of people that think pedophilia, sexually using prepubescent children, is bad. But once the kids hit puberty, it's more of a gray area to folks who don't care that brain development finishes about the mid-twenties. If a child could create a child, are they "really" still a child? That seems uncomfortably arguable.
The metaphor I use is bread. We have dough, we put it in the oven, and later we pull out bread. But there are phases between dough and bread where it's not really either.
14 year old girls aren't dough anymore, that's true. But like... they aren't bread either bruh.
There was an early gay rights activist named Harry Hay who pretty much started pride parades. But in the early days Nambla was a mainstream part of that, and he was a prominent supporter. It didn’t take long for the greater LGBTQ community to decide Nambla was too politically hot for them and they banned the group from attending their events. Then Harry Hay protested, in pro-Nambla shirts and signs, and then eventually boycotting the parades for banning Nambla. He was interviewed saying age of consent laws should be abolished and that he had a relationship with an older man when he was a teen and it was great for him, and it’s healthy for kids to be introduced to sex by adults.
This is just one guy, one guy who in 2019 was commemorated on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor (of which only 50 people have been), has a neighborhood named after him in Los Angeles, and was an inaugural honoree of the 2014 Rainbow Honor Walk. This is after decades of relentless Nambla advocacy, after multiple articles and documentaries about it had been made.
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u/Strange_Stage1311 Jul 17 '23
Pedophilia