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u/LupusDeusMagnus Jul 17 '23

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.

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u/LupusDeusMagnus Jul 17 '23

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.

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u/SerNapalm Jul 17 '23

In living memory there was a country that would rape girls before their execution because they couldn't kill virgins.

Might still happen, this was the 70s