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Writing about something comes in so many flavours. Fiction which contains minors doing adult acts could, for example, be any of:

-themes celebrating the normal experiences of growing up

-a warning about the prevalence of predators

-commentary to highlight the effects of peer pressure

-criticism of poor sex ed in schools

-criticism of purity/shame culture

-support of religious ideals around chastity

-actual CP

While there may be some people with perversions reading/writing such material, when we ban talking about a particular action, we categorise every version and every context of that act as the perversion. And once we start censoring that, we lose the opportunity to read a work and make a judgement on the morality of it. The story about teens for teens with themes of growing up and positive communication in sex, is slapped with the same label as the book glorifying an indiscriminate pedophile.

I think it's an incredibly important feature of society that we are able to read things that we deem as wrong or uncomfortable and be able to discuss them or even criticise them and their authors. Otherwise, the only other options are that some other unseen person with unseen motives decides for us, or entire acts and all their commentary disappears from public view altogether.

Anyway, just my two cents.

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