• SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    America has some of the most militant anti pedophilic culture in the world but they far and away have the highest rates of child sexual assault.

    I think AI is going to revel is how deeply hypocritical Americans are on this issue. You have gigantic institutions like churches committing industrial scale victimization yet you won’t find a 1/10th of the righteous indignation against other organized religions where there is just as much evidence it is happening as you will regarding one person producing images that don’t actually hurt anyone.

    It’s pretty clear by how staggering a rate of child abuse that occurs in the states that Americans are just using child victims as weaponized politicalization (it’s next to impossible to convincingly fight off pedo accusations if you’re being mobbed) and aren’t actually interested in fighting pedophilia.

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      6 months ago

      Most states will let grown men marry children as young as 14. There is a special carve out for Christian pedophiles.

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        Fortunately most instances are in the category of a 17 year old to an 18 year old, and require parental consent and some manner of judicial approval, but the rates of “not that” are still much higher than one would want.
        ~300k in a 20 year window total, 74% of the older partner being 20 or younger, and 95% of the younger partner being 16 or 17, with only 14% accounting for both partners being under 18.

        There’s still no reason for it in any case, and I’m glad to live in one of the states that said "nah, never needed .