Daniel wrote:here is one too
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As a teenager, you are growing and learning at a phenomenal pace. Month by
month you are becoming savvier, wiser, more socially equipped. That
rapid development continues into your 20s. So as a teenager, a big age
gap is a REALLY big age gap, because you are learning and changing so
much so quickly during that time.
It’s not totally about “maturity” though - it’s about power.As you get older, younger people start to look up to you. They might trust
you to know things you really don’t, because you’re older and you know
how to say stuff convincingly.
Getting older also means learning
all the different ways people pressure or manipulate each other. Most of us are still learning about this stuff into our 20s - even if we’re
really smart and mature. Someone having a lot more of this knowledge
than the person they’re dating means the power in the relationship is
uneven, because
the older person can pressure you in ways you can’t recognise or defend against.And I’m sure teenagers have noticed that
if you get into a conflict with an adult, other people take the adult’s word over yours. Even if you’re right. Even if you need help.
So if you date an adult, that person has power over you that, even if they don’t
try to use it, really does effect how the relationship works. There’s no way
to have a healthy relationship with that big a power difference, because
you can’t make choices the adult doesn’t like without worrying about
what they’ll think or do.
You’ll end up in situations you’re uncomfortable with and not have the tools or social power you need to get out of them.The other piece is - adults who date teenagers are looking for something
they can’t get in their usual dating pool. For most adults, dating a
teenager wouldn’t even occur to them, because they understand how wrong
it would be. Adults have our own groups of friends, our own ways to meet
people our own age, and if an adult is flirting with kids they’re
looking for something they can’t get from someone who’s old enough to
catch on.
The adults who seek out teenagers want someone they can pressure and manipulate. They’re looking for an abusive relationship, and like all abusers they’re
really sneaky about it at first - but they have the added advantage of
knowing tricks you haven’t had time to learn yet, as well as the
advantage of being listened to when you won’t be.Every smart, mature kid
feels older than their age at least some of the time. I know I did.
But
being really smart and really mature doesn’t make you an adult - having had years and years of being around other people and learning
the little social things that you can’t get from books is part of it.
Having the power of an adult - the freedom to come and go as you please, being listened to by the people around you - that’s the other part."
How can you read this much about something and be so plainly wrong? I like to understand what it is someone finds arousing even if I don't share their attraction. Scat disgusts me like nothing else, but I can theoretically understand why someone would find that hot. It's not true that all pedophiles seek only to manipulate easy targets. I've read that some are attracted to their hairlessness and certainly other aspects I didn't bother to remember. Post-pubertal bodies may be repulsing to some, and it's foolish to insist no one can be into something because you think it's wrong. It absolutely is wrong to act on those feelings, but it's foolish to claim all pedophiles are interested in children purely for the power trip.