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Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004
What did he do that makes this good, exactly?

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PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Nevvy Z posted:

What did he do that makes this good, exactly?

I think the poster is saying that it's good he's being harassed by "right-wing extremists." I don't really disagree, he sounds like a bad and creepy motherfucker.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

OwlFancier posted:

Murder she wrote is a fairly mild example but have you seen the gossip magazines that people buy? When people coined the phrase "torture porn" I feel they misapplied it.
Gossip magazines with "torture porn"? What kind of gossip magazines are you talking about here?

OwlFancier posted:

A lot of people definitely have a really perverse fascination with human suffering, which is completely fine so long as you consume it in a socially acceptable way.
A fascination with human suffering and death is not the same as a fascination with or lust for murder though. Everyone dies, and part of the way people cope with that is to confront death through various media.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Nevvy Z posted:

What did he do that makes this good, exactly?

He's just a guy who was brave/braindead enough to out himself as a segment of the population that is utterly reviled by the vast majority of Americans. Given the quality of his writing, I'd suspect more a limited capacity to understand the consequences than actual courage.

Still, as this thread has so rightly pointed out, society's current approach to the taboo is fundamentally flawed. Whether pedophilia is a genetic or an acquired illness, the failure to distinguish between a person with the illness and an actual offender, as well as the bloodthirsty vitriol applied toward both, completely shuts off all avenues for therapeutic intervention. Without a constructive alternative, you shunt these sad sacks into the darkest nooks and crannies of the Internet, exposing them to discourse that exacerbates the illness and greatly increases their likelihood to create new victims.

The power of the taboo is such that even challenging the lovely status quo raises eyebrows: "She doesn't want to lynch every single person who has disgusting thoughts about 9-year-olds?? I'll bet she's one of them.". Something needs to change, but, as someone stated up thread, who the gently caress is going to stick their head out when the social consequences are so high?

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Pedophiles should have access to discrete therapy to help them not rape a kid, and possibly not lust after a kid as well if psychiatry gets that advanced,

but this is a guy who literally recited kid-sex rhetoric and brushed it off in the article as "oh I just wanted to belong somewhere lol"

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Gossip magazines with "torture porn"? What kind of gossip magazines are you talking about here?

A fascination with human suffering and death is not the same as a fascination with or lust for murder though. Everyone dies, and part of the way people cope with that is to confront death through various media.

:killdozer:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Cugel the Clever posted:

The power of the taboo is such that even challenging the lovely status quo raises eyebrows: "She doesn't want to lynch every single person who has disgusting thoughts about 9-year-olds?? I'll bet she's one of them.". Something needs to change, but, as someone stated up thread, who the gently caress is going to stick their head out when the social consequences are so high?
It seems like maybe humans are just wired to hate, and those that style themselves as progressive, nonracist feminists still need an outlet, so it's furries and juggalos and pedophiles and whatever because the groupthink still days that's OK.

What's really nuts is that many people have the same reaction to some adult guy getting wood from seeing a teenager with fully developed secondary sexual characteristics as to someone who literally raped a toddler or something. This is so absurd on its face it pretty much has be a socially acceptable righteous indignation anger outlet.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

So what is your opinion on "ephebophilia"

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Trent posted:

It seems like maybe humans are just wired to hate, and those that style themselves as progressive, nonracist feminists still need an outlet, so it's furries and juggalos and pedophiles and whatever because the groupthink still days that's OK.

What's really nuts is that many people have the same reaction to some adult guy getting wood from seeing a teenager with fully developed secondary sexual characteristics as to someone who literally raped a toddler or something. This is so absurd on its face it pretty much has be a socially acceptable righteous indignation anger outlet.
Adults getting wood from teenagers is okay to you then?

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Also has there been an outbreak in baseball mascots or clowns being sexually assaulted recently because I don't think those other two groups are really in the same caliber.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Gossip magazines with "torture porn"? What kind of gossip magazines are you talking about here?

A fascination with human suffering and death is not the same as a fascination with or lust for murder though. Everyone dies, and part of the way people cope with that is to confront death through various media.



Chat's pretty bad but it's not far off the normal.

I mean I get the concept of catharsis in media but I can't help but feel as though this may not quite be sold with that in mind.

I like the "90% Burns" pop out star like it's on special offer.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Oct 1, 2015

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

that magazine is incredibly loving creepy and i feel worse for knowing it exists

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Part of my job involves working with them so I get to look at all the terrible gossip mags every week.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?

Control Volume posted:

that magazine is incredibly loving creepy and i feel worse for knowing it exists

While that's 100% true I really wanna know the story behind “headbutted by a ghost!“ now

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Hey just as an aside if someone is using the justification of "Oh it's not as bad as lusting after a toddler" as a justification for lusting after a 15 year old girl that's an extremely unhealthy mindset to be in since its a denial of a pretty loving serious problem, and said person/persons should start going to a therapist immediately about it, anyways later.

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
Therapy doesn't fix sexuality

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004

Black Baby Goku posted:

Adults getting wood from teenagers is okay to you then?

Some teenagers are also adults. Other teenagers are considered to be above the age of consent. So yes, in many circumstances adults getting wood from teenagers is actually perfectly ok.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Control Volume posted:

So what is your opinion on "ephebophilia"

Had to look that up. Sounds like a difference blown out of proportion by internet idiots and trolls.

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong

Control Volume posted:

this is a guy who literally recited kid-sex rhetoric and brushed it off in the article as "oh I just wanted to belong somewhere* lol"
*and by belong somewhere he of course means as a first grade art teacher :cry:

NutritiousSnack posted:

This is his actual post history

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Nevvy Z posted:

Some teenagers are also adults. Other teenagers are considered to be above the age of consent. So yes, in many circumstances adults getting wood from teenagers is actually perfectly ok.

You are insane.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Nevvy Z posted:

Some teenagers are also adults. Other teenagers are considered to be above the age of consent. So yes, in many circumstances adults getting wood from teenagers is actually perfectly ok.

People get wood from shoes and goats and two dimensional images. None of these are things we could even potentially reproduce with. There is no value judgement which is appropriate. It just happens to be the case. Your body does not know or care in what year someone was born. It cares if they have pleasing characteristics.

Anyone who says they couldn't possibly be physically aroused by anyone who is a teenager is either a liar or has a very specific and powerful fetish of their own. Edit: or an imbecile

This is an entirely sperate issue from rape or any other type of assault.

I wonder if this same argument happens in countries where the arbitrary age of consent is different, but with a different line in the sand for normal vs total sicko

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Trent posted:

People get wood from shoes and goats and two dimensional images. None of these are things we could even potentially reproduce with. There is no value judgement which is appropriate. It just happens to be the case. Your body does not know or care in what year someone was born. It cares if they have pleasing characteristics.

Anyone who says they couldn't possibly be physically aroused by anyone who is a teenager is either a liar or has a very specific and powerful fetish of their own. Edit: or an imbecile

This is an entirely sperate issue from rape or any other type of assault.

I wonder if this same argument happens in countries where the arbitrary age of consent is different, but with a different line in the sand for normal vs total sicko

Ah, the "other countries" defense.

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
People who defend pedophiles should be banned, just like we ban actual pedos.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Trent posted:

I wonder if this same argument happens in countries where the arbitrary age of consent is different, but with a different line in the sand for normal vs total sicko

Where do you live that the age of consent is high? I don't know many places where it's higher than 16.

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

unlimited shrimp posted:

pedophilia isn't a choice, shitlord

e. Woops, this isn't GBS

But anyway, cases like this are where Social Justice logic starts to hit a brick wall for me. Every argument for queer rights could be deployed in this guy's favor -- the attraction (if not acted upon) is harmless to society, his attraction isn't a choice, persecuting this guy based on his benign attraction codifies bigotry, appeals to what is "natural" are a fallacy, this guy wouldn't necessarily be a bad parent or a danger to children, etc. Even if you want to remove the stigma of the attraction as PT6A said, how do you treat someone as an equal when their sexual orientation, if acted upon, is abhorrent? How do you check your microaggressions against someone you can't trust your children with? Should such an attraction be normalized, and if not, where is the red line for acceptable intolerance?

The difference between a gay man and the guy in the OP is that a man can consent to getting rammed up the rear end by another man but a child cannot consent to sex, hth

that said, putting these people in heavy therapy is a better option than imprisoning them if they're not acting on it

PaleIrishGuy
Feb 5, 2004
Pale as paper

OwlFancier posted:

Where do you live that the age of consent is high? I don't know many places where it's higher than 16.

Looks like a lot of Africa has 18 as their age of consent. Additionally, Bahrain seems to be 21. Also the U.S. is mostly 18.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

PaleIrishGuy posted:

Looks like a lot of Africa has 18 as their age of consent. Additionally, Bahrain seems to be 21. Also the U.S. is mostly 18.

I thought the US was all over the place ranging from 21 to like 12 or something? Or did they change that?

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Trent posted:

Anyone who says they couldn't possibly be physically aroused by anyone who is a teenager is either a liar or has a very specific and powerful fetish of their own. Edit: or an imbecile

Actually I'm pretty sure any arousal I may or may not theoretically feel according to you would end the second I realize they can't give proper consent, so I guess consent's my specific and extremely powerful fetish.

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

LORD OF BUTT posted:

The difference between a gay man and the guy in the OP is that a man can consent to getting rammed up the rear end by another man but a child cannot consent to sex, hth

that said, putting these people in heavy therapy is a better option than imprisoning them if they're not acting on it

You can't change someone's sexuality with therapy.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Black Baby Goku posted:

You can't change someone's sexuality with therapy.

There are very few reasons why you would ever need to change someone's sexuality.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

The extreme refutation of that statement is chemical castration.

The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Control Volume posted:

The extreme refutation of that statement is chemical castration.

Chemical castration does not change your sexuality. It may decrease sexual desire to some extent but that's about it.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Not being sexually aroused by anything is a fairly big change in sexuality.

e: but this is going to lead into a giant derail about whether libido should be considered a part of sexuality and then you get arguments about asexuals and all that bullshit so I'm going to reduce my statement to "I disagree that sexuality cannot be altered."

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

OwlFancier posted:

There are very few reasons why you would ever need to change someone's sexuality.

I can think of one big reason it would be useful. Can't you?

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Control Volume posted:

Not being sexually aroused by anything is a fairly big change in sexuality.

It doesn't end the attraction. Just reduces it.

PaleIrishGuy
Feb 5, 2004
Pale as paper

OwlFancier posted:

I thought the US was all over the place ranging from 21 to like 12 or something? Or did they change that?

Wikipedia posted:

Each U.S. state (and the District of Columbia) has its own general age of consent. Currently state laws set the age of consent at 16, 17, or 18. The most common age is 16,[20] a common age of consent in most other Western countries. Less than 50% of the U.S. population resides in states which set the age of consent at 16; these states are usually smaller than states which set the ages of consent at 17 and 18 and therefore have lower populations. Whether Texas's age of consent is defined as 17 or 18, over 60% of the U.S. population resides in states which have ages of consent as 16 and/or 17.[6]

age of consent 16 (31): Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,[a] Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia
age of consent 17 (7/8): Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Texas,[b] Wyoming
age of consent 18 (11/12): Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas (see previous note), Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin

It used to be all over the place (140 years ago, it seems 10-12 was common with Delaware being 7), but has been at least 16 in every state since 2001.

The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Control Volume posted:

Not being sexually aroused by anything is a fairly big change in sexuality.

Yes, it is. And if chemical castration did that you would have a point.

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

The Larch posted:

Yes, it is. And if chemical castration did that you would have a point.

He doesn't have a point.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Black Baby Goku posted:

I can think of one big reason it would be useful. Can't you?

It might be useful but it isn't necessary. Any more than changing people's sexuality is necessary to prevent rape in general?

I don't think "rapeosexual" is a thing, or if it is it's probably not unique to paedophiles. Sexuality is an entitely amoral issue, it doesn't matter who or what you find attractive as long as you act on it appropriately, because thoughts aren't moral or immoral, only actions are.

The problem is people committing rape which I'm pretty sure you can avoid doing. I've managed to avoid doing it, astonishingly, all my life. It's been pretty easy because I think it's wrong?

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woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
"Crush the pedophiles, see them driven before you. What's that they're hiding in new and creative ways? The offense rate is increasing? Not my problem, I'm Black Baby Goku." *ascends to torture porn valhalla*

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