on grooming:
Grooming is the satanic panic for the modern age. Do abusive partners exist? Yes. Can people be manipulated? Yes. Does sheltering people and denying them autonomy actually make them less manipulable? Absolutely not. So "grooming" is really just governments creating the outcomes that they want to pass new laws in a feedback loop. Shelter youth from sexual topics, instill them with stranger danger, make them afraid of their own bodies, tell them that their own choices are the result of manipulation. This then raises the amount of grooming reports, which then helps pass tougher restrictions on youth autonomy and so on and so on. A stupid and harmful cycle that's turning the general population into hysterical idiots.
This is not to say that there aren't people out there with malicious intentions towards youth. But firstly, demonizing mutually desired relationships towards MAPs and AAMs is not helping, it's stranger danger nonsense that shifts focus away from domestic and institutional child abuse. And secondly, the way people go about fighting this newfound epidemic doesn't actually make anyone safer. All it does is erode everyone's rights to the benefit of Orwellian government creeps, who themselves as a group, don't have the best track record when it comes to sexual misconduct.
