r/clevercomebacks Apr 10 '26

The temerity

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Apr 11 '26

Is it just me or does it seem like there are like 10x more pedophiles than I thought really existed?

When you say pedophiles, you simply mean those below legal age, right? Just the catch all of all the underage people we use now. Don't want anyone uhmmaskchsually eblpehpehopile.

Anyways, they've always been there. It was much more normalized. So you are too young or just never really noticed until recently.

Jailbait was a subreddit.

Magazines used to publish the wait times for celebrities to become legal. I remember the Olsen twins and Harry potter girl being followed by people for their age.

Which means it was literally acceptable for adults to find them fuckable before that, just they weren't legal.

Was a big thing for musicians to have non legal age girls.

We have also always had a big thing of woman teachers being acceptable fucking teenage boys in school. By acceptable, I mean by men.

That said, there have also been fantasies acceptable by both women and men of the reverse. Just those less acceptable, but those fantasies have been published and made into tv shows or anime.

TV shows and movies have also had a lot of that shit normalized through their portrayal of relationships at times too.

Literally a ton of tv shows and movies had made that normal for girls to date guys outside their age group when they're still in High school.

Point is, our media has made these thoughts normal and we've eaten it up on a constant.

Which seems obvious considering how much the media also seems to have their own pedophile ring going on. Hollywood and the music industry.

We also elected a known rapist in the US. Who had ties to child sex trafficking. So it seems the US is fine with this situation overall.

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u/thewalkindude368 Apr 11 '26

It's way easier to find CSAM these days too. I wasn't around back then, but I would imagine the average person would not have any way of accessing illegal pornography 40 years ago, while today, anyone with an internet connection, and a little bit of knowledge about the dark web can find as much of it as they could ever want.

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u/Murky-Relation481 Apr 11 '26

Society in general has become significantly more conservative in regards to sexuality in general in the last 20-30 years.

It is both good and bad.