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Age Restriction Vs Rape
And while rape is still very much a pervasive issue, I would much prefer laws regarding effective consent to an arbitrary age restriction which curbs children's sexual freedom and feeds into harmful views of children as property, as monolithic, as things uniformly incapable of making their own decisions who suddenly become enlightened once they cross an arbitrarily-defined line.
And while rape is still very much a pervasive issue, I would much prefer laws regarding effective consent to an arbitrary age restriction which curbs children's sexual freedom and feeds into harmful views of children as property, as monolithic, as things uniformly incapable of making their own decisions who suddenly become enlightened once they cross an arbitrarily-defined
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