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The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by rightbyte »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #14

I think every parent should be aware that if they give their kids a phone the result is often that they become sexually involved with strangers at a young age. Occasionally, this results in actual meet ups, mostly just sexting. I'm not sure if there is a "solution" to this problem, or its just the case that sexual morality as it has been conceived is already gone, and articles like these are just the death knells of…

Your first paragraph just about describes most dating endeavours from the parents point of view.

The article is about a mother profiting from suggestive photos of her child.

> But you'd figure that, eventually, the kids will think we're all being a bit ridiculous.

Do you mean growing up?

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by lm28469 »

stavros wrote: post #20
DiscourseFan wrote: post #14

I think every parent should be aware that if they give their kids a phone the result is often that they become sexually involved with strangers at a young age. Occasionally, this results in actual meet ups, mostly just sexting. I'm not sure if there is a "solution" to this problem, or its just the case that sexual morality as it has been conceived is already gone, and articles like these are just the death knells of…

Now that you say this, is there any actual data on harms caused to teenagers from consensual sexual relationships with adults? Or are we all just freaking out because it's unpalatable?

Kids can't consent because they're not aware of what's at stake and are easily manipulated by adults/people with authority. I know this is hn and the concentration of neckbeards is high but yes: fucking kids isn't ok

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by stavros »

lm28469 wrote: post #22
stavros wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that you say this, is there any actual data on harms caused to teenagers from consensual sexual relationships with adults? Or are we all just freaking out because it's unpalatable?

Kids can't consent because they're not aware of what's at stake and are easily manipulated by adults/people with authority. I know this is hn and the concentration of neckbeards is high but yes: fucking kids isn't ok

Is that a "no" on the data front, then?

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by justanotherjoe »

stavros wrote: post #23
lm28469 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids can't consent because they're not aware of what's at stake and are easily manipulated by adults/people with authority. I know this is hn and the concentration of neckbeards is high but yes: fucking kids isn't ok

Is that a "no" on the data front, then?

It's a no but you presented a false dichotomy. Either we have data or people are freaking out just because its unpalatable. Of course its a fallacy cause there are other ways to get to the truth without having enough children have sex with adults to have a sizeable, representative data.

Get help.

Also I'm sure we have plenty data that sex can be traumatic even for grown women in consensual relationship. Sex is very strong experience. And your penis is not some holy grail all people want.

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by stavros »

justanotherjoe wrote: post #24
stavros wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a "no" on the data front, then?

It's a no but you presented a false dichotomy. Either we have data or people are freaking out just because its unpalatable. Of course its a fallacy cause there are other ways to get to the truth without having enough children have sex with adults to have a sizeable, representative data. Get help. Also I'm sure we have plenty data that sex can be traumatic even for grown women in consensual relationship. Sex is very s…

What's the fallacy called where someone is making an argument and you're implying they're a pedophile?

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by justanotherjoe »

stavros wrote: post #25
justanotherjoe wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a no but you presented a false dichotomy. Either we have data or people are freaking out just because its unpalatable. Of course its a fallacy cause there are other ways to get to the truth without having enough children have sex with adults to have a sizeable, representative data. Get help. Also I'm sure we have plenty data that sex can be traumatic even for grown women in consensual relationship. Sex is very s…

What's the fallacy called where someone is making an argument and you're implying they're a pedophile?

Oh i'm kinda sure you are. It's called theory of mind.

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by stavros »

justanotherjoe wrote: post #26
stavros wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the fallacy called where someone is making an argument and you're implying they're a pedophile?

Oh i'm kinda sure you are. It's called theory of mind.

Then I know what I'm sure you are.

Re: The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men

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Post by nkrisc »

rightbyte wrote: post #11
gregjor wrote: post #5

https://archive.is/Myagt Start prosecuting and jailing some execs at Meta and let's see how fast they can fix "the algorithm."

The parents seem to be enablers according to the article. The child's mother is into marketing, so I guess it is in character. I don't think there is a sane way to prevent missuse of pictures of children. But a starter would be to not use social media.

Blame can be shared.
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