Lux AlptraumHonestly shocking to me as both a one time high school sex educator and a one time teen how many of you don’t believe that teens deserve privacy
Teens are not children! They’re simply not! Are they adults? Nope! But they’re in an in between development stage and they deserve an age appropriate amount of privacy and autonomy in order to practice our being adults.
“But what if they fuck up?” Yeah I mean that’s how people learn shit.
This is also why I hate when people feel like they have to infantilize teens in order to argue that when teens date adults there’s a higher likelihood of abuse. It’s not because teens are children! It’s because they’re *not fully developed adults*! There’s a difference.
Wyl McCully@luxalptraum it seems like the problem is our binary approach to maturity. 17 and 364 days: young, stupid child; but overnight, the grownup fairy comes down and at 18 you are magically a grown, intelligent adult. There is no room in our laws for something in-between.