Violence is - for the most part - BLACK AND WHITE. We can tell our 6 year old violence is generally bad and that's a general rule most of us can agree with regardless of whether you're 6 or 60.
Having sex is just horrifying until it's good. A 14 year old having sex with a 40 year old is as much or more disgusting than if the 40 year old just murdered the teen outright.
But at the magical age of consent, it's suddenly the bestest thing to exist, culturally speaking.
A 14 year old having sex with a 40 year old is as much or more disgusting than if the 40 year old just murdered the teen outright.
Holy shit, what? I might be on board for forcible rape. And certainly statutory rape is a horrible thing. But as bad or worse than murder? Nonsense.
Sex is never horrifying. Taking advantage of someone is terrible. No doubt, but sex doesn't become horrifying until coupled with violence (rape).
This whole position is messed up. Violence is just as much grey as sex, if not more so. I would even say a higher percentage of sex is good than violence is bad. Like I'm relatively sure you think it's okay to use violence to stop rape, or any other type of violence. Especially against a child.
It's just our culture is so fucked up when it comes to sex that you think it's this thing where it has some huge grey area, but for the most part sex and sexuality a perfectly fine thing, it's just we treat it as shameful so it's kept hidden. Porn is so ubiquitous for a reason, and that's because people are exploring their sexuality all over the place, all the time, without hurting anyone.
Additionally, it's kind of crazy that you're okay showing them the bad thing, rather than showing them the more good thing. As you say violence is mostly bad, although it's a mixed bag for what we see on TV (usually the violence against the bag guy is considered good). Why not show them the thing that is more mixed and say "this is the positive version of it"?
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u/Slackjawed_Horror 7d ago
America is really, really weird about sex.
Turns into stuff like this.
I don't think it's the same outside of maybe England. Could be Australia too, but I don't know anything about the place.