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Hey let's talk about the anti-shipper statement "problematic fictional content will turn you in a sex offender" and why it's bullshit.
A Thread.
By me.
Who works with sex offenders everyday.
A Thread.
By me.
Who works with sex offenders everyday.
anti-shippers being concered about media going to influence people to become sex offenders while in real life the actual rate of reported sexual assaults has decreased slightly in recent years.
A significant high number of sex offenders is juvenile which is a problem compared to the fact that overall the reported number of sexual assaults are dropping, the number of juvenile sex offenders is slightly increasing.
So much for "only adults are sex offenders" which is not true.
sexual assaults are way more complex to just break them down on "consuming sensitive media'; it's an interaction between parental education, social surroundings, experience and opportunity. Most sexual assaults happen on opportunity; they are affective and spontaneous.
Most victims of sexual assault are people the offender already knows or are close to them. Most sexual assaults are hate crimes based on personal reason. For juvenile sex offenders their victims tend to be younger than them bc they seem to be weaker and therefore easier targets.
Most people I worked with so far stated they never get inspired by certain content; especially juvenile sex offenders have mostly no access to sensitive content or ain't interested at all in content like that. As I said before most crimes are committed out of opportunity.
Let's be real the amount of people consuming fanwork content is pretty low by itself; the coincidence that a real sex offender PLANS an assault bc of reading a rape fic is very small.
Saying a sex offender is the same as a pedophile ruins the work of rehabilitation. Sex offenders have mostly no paraphilia /the amount of sex offenders with a paraphilia in the spectrum of sexual criminals (tho it's mostly an affect crime as I said before) is very low.
Most sexual assaults are mostly (not always but a person needs much more to become a serial offender) onetime crimes; most people tend to move on even tho re offense rates vary among different types of sex offenders.
I mean we don't have this explicit differences and psychological definitions just for the lulz; for example 1 time shop-lifting doesn't make you automatically a kleptomaniac.
You hurt the work of rehabilitation treatment & make my work + the work of others harder by spreading false information, mixing up pedophiles with sex offenders and most of all, ignoring the fact that juvenile sex offenders exist.
I mean come on, you can't be serious about claiming a 14-yrs old is a pedophile; do you even realize how damaging this kind of statement is for this person? At this young age? Do you even have a clue how disturbing this is for their entire mental development & resocialization?
Now imagine you FALSELY callout a 14-yr old as being a pedophile; imagine the disturbing outcome this person has to face after being stigmatised in such a way. The suicide rates of juveline sex offenders is already very high; at my work we have to face 1 suicide attampt per week.
anti-shippers think it's so easy to find a reason and a simple solution for all of this. I just ask: If it's so easy why do we have psychologists and welfare workers if it's so damn easy?
Why do people have to study this subject if "banning senstive content is the miracle" we need to fix this problem? Guess what, bc it's not as simple as you think & claiming this complex issue can be easily solved is so offensive and damaging years of research.
But hey I already know anti-shippers tend to be anti-science facts all along & the sad thing is this even won't wake up just one single one of them. So I guess I end here now.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for reading.
I gonna mute this thread bc is breaking my twitter
