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Everyone under the age of 25 should be strapped to a booster seat and given a binky and a rattle

Leftists: "What two consenting adults do in the bedroom is not anyone else's business."

Also leftists: This

I am 23. Whenever I accidentally come across nude pictures of an 18 year old (sometimes unavoidable on the internet, even when not searching for it) my immediate reaction is "ew, that is a child, I don't want to see that"

I cannot imagine what kind of disgusting freak you have to be to pursue these children into your 30s and 40s. :gulag:

Struggle session not related to the revolution, struggle session for its own sake, is useless.

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someday we will study what drives people to constantly start conversations with random strangers about who should and should not be having sex, imagining all the details that make them angry and constantly proposing new rules about it

LiberalSocialist, you're a professional at making high engagement posts :07:

if you would consider someone that age a child that means you should not be dating in that age group

As a person just a bit older than the higher age mentioned here, I have to say I don't have anything in common with teenagers and frankly, outside of my own family members I don't even hang out with people in their early 20s. We just have had totally different life experiences: kids, a decade or more being ground into the dirt by wage labor, having lived without parental supervision for a large percentage of my life, having dealt with bureaucracy outside of a school environment, having had to cook for myself for more than a year, the feeling of drifting apart from old friends, etc etc means that we couldn't easily relate to one another. They just haven't personally experienced shit that the majority of people have by their late 20s/30s.

I wouldn't have felt this way when I was 19, I'd have found it condescending, and I absolutely think anyone my age pursuing a teen romantically is preying on that naivety.

There isn't a defined line for when an age gap is bad because it's only one factor and while there is obviously a power dynamic between differently aged people that doesn't necessarily make the relationship harmful. As others have pointed out, there are power dynamics in every relationship. What's important is whether it's being utilized or not.

I think it's ultimately problem of alienation under capitalism. Ideally, under communism, you could rely more on the community to prevent predatory or abusive relationships without having super strict rules. I think 19-26 is in a grey area, it could easily be predatory but it's possible for it not to be. I'd rather err on the side of bodily autonomy.

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I could believe a lot of such relationships aren't for the best, but I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18 and 31 years my senior @ 28. With that background, I'm fine with it personally.

As a former 19 y/o who was having sex with people that age and older- it entirely depends, but if you've done kink and consent education you probably have better boundary skills than most adult USians, and more experienced people showing you the ropes is nice.

But this is coming from a lesbian perspective and 19 y/o shouldn't be dating 26 y/o.

Under communism the age of consent will be 45:garf-troll:

If a 24yo and a 18yo meet and become friends, and then start dating a few years later, is this also weird and creepy?

Asking for a friend.