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Reminder that pedophiles could also be called rapists and abusers and don’t deserve to be coddled under the guise of them being “mentally ill” and weaponizing illness is a gaslighting technique.
Reminder that pedophiles could also be called rapists and abusers and don’t deserve to be coddled under the guise of them being “mentally ill” and weaponizing illness is a gaslighting technique.
A lot of young people are going to feel incredibly alone during this time and there are people that will attempt to take advantage of that loneliness to abuse them. Pedophiles tend to shower young people in comfort, attention, and validation that they’re lacking.
In isolation, young people are further lacking these things because they would normally get them from their friends and any fulfilling activities they’re a part of. People don’t just stop needing these things when their worlds change, they just search for new ways to get them.
Pedophiles will tend to target high schoolers especially because that is the age that media has deemed it “acceptable” to start sexualizing people’s bodies. I refuse to place any of the blame of that disgusting reality on high schoolers trying to navigate the world.
Because the sexualization of teenage bodies has been deemed acceptable pedophiles will intentionally target high schoolers + manipulate the public to excuse their behaviors. Citing everything from the victims way of dressing to their body type as a reason they were acting “older”
And because the child was “acting older”, the pedophile should not be held accountable. If you ever claim that children are dressing “too sexy”, you are playing into manipulative pedophilic rhetoric.
This leads me into saying things that I hated hearing when I was younger, but I didn’t hear enough of. First off, don’t take nude photos if you’re under the age of 18. This is not because there is anything wrong with your body. This is because the internet is forever and>
Both creating and distributing Pornographic material of a minor (even if it’s you) is illegal and can be held against you for a very long time. That’s the more comfortable reason, now for the less comfortable ones.
Your photos are probably not secure. Yes, even if you have a “secret” album in your phone. Nothing digital is private, and any physical photos can be made public. How does this relate to pedophiles? There are networks out together to circulate child pornography.
They aren’t even all “underground”. Recently, pornhub has come under fire for leaving up monetized depictions of child rape for weeks at a time. I’ll do my best to find the twitter of one of the brave women who came forward at the end of this thread.
Pornography is not inadvertently bad. The reason that people search out porn of minors is that the age is important to them. They don’t care that you’re attractive and wonderful and funny (which I’m positive all of you are) they care that you’re a child.
Which brings me around to thing number two: lewds count too. I’m not talking about you posting that picture of you in your swimsuit with your friends your aunt called your mom to let her know you look like a tramp in. I mean non-nude photos with sexual intention.
For many young people, this is a work around of porn to feel a more “appropriate” level of desirability. Many pedophiles seek out and save these pictures with the intention of taking sexual gratification of them, knowing that these people are minors.
I don’t believe that it’s inappropriate for a teenager to want to feel sexually desirable. That’s largely when we all start to come into ourselves and figure out who we are and what we like. Feel free to feel pretty and sexy, but you shouldn’t document it to protect yourself.
As a teenager, anything sexual that you do should be kept between yourself and any partners that you have. Sexual interactions should be face to face with no documentation. (Also with consent and the proper safety measures put in place, but people will actually talk about that)
Which brings me to point three! Pedophiles both depend on you to be inexperienced and are attracted to it. This is because without a frame of reference for how you should be treated in a relationship, pedos can get away with manipulating you without you realizing it.
Pedophiles also depend on sexual relations being a taboo topic. You or your friends wouldn’t tell an adult that you were having casual sex with someone your age, much less with an adult. That’s not to say you need to have that convo with them, but pedos rely on that.
A good sexual safety tip is that if you wouldn’t feel comfortable talking to your parents about going out on a date with the person, you shouldn’t have sex with them*
* obviously this is complicated by both racism and homophobia which, whew, whole other can o worms
* obviously this is complicated by both racism and homophobia which, whew, whole other can o worms
I need to take a break from writing this thread for right now, but I’m going to try to come back to it later.
