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[–]JulienMayfair 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's funny. I've noticed on sites like AskGayBros, some of the same people who get very militant about not having sex with younger guys (I'm talking legal sex) based on the fact that younger individuals do not have the cognitive capacity to understand the ramifications of such decisions do a 180 degree turn when it comes to transition.

It should be clear to anyone that transition generally has greater ramifications than engaging in consensual sex and that the same arguments about decision-making and cognitive capacity should apply.

[–]theytookourjerbsXX only. 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm in my 20's and I don't feel comfortable dating anyone 19 or 18 and even the age of consent (16-18 depending on state), because they're teenagers. It's also a sub type of paedophilia (even though paedophilia is prepubescent children, but it's one of the types of it). The sub types these people normalise are ages 11-14 and 15-19 year olds. Usually, they're middle aged men (regardless of sexual orientation) in their 40-50's, and claim "hur dur age of consent" "hur dur legal age of "adult"" "hur dur they're actually pubescent children and adolescents". People are willing to justify any of this shit. I've also seen people justifying first-fourth cousins marriage like "hur dur not my immediate family" "hur dur we're literally strangers" (um I know my third and second cousins no thanks).

[–]panderichthys 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To be fair, the two cousin unions I know of never produced any children. I get that not everyone may be militant about that, though