let’s make something clear to some creeps.
consent laws for children don’t exist as something that should be abolished bc they’re keeping ‘happy relationships’ from forming, like a lot of MAPS seem to think.
they exist because children lack the ability to understand a relationship and sex with someone much older than them, and the amount of power the adult holds over them is immense. a 12 year old may THINK they’re in a happy relationship dating a 21 year old, but it WILL go sour. as that 12 year old ages, the manipulation and weakness and disgust will start to sink in as they realize they had no power and were entirely too young to be able to consent to what was happening, and bam. traumatized.
a child can not be in a romantic relationship with an adult. relationships need to be balanced dynamic wise and everyone needs to be able to understand each other and support each other. a child can’t do that. and the emotional strain on them will cause lasting damage.
age laws exist because most of the time, young teens don’t KNOW when they’re being manipulated and used and they don’t realize how much it’s fucked them up until they’re older and struggling to stay stable.
it doesn’t MATTER if a child ‘consents’ to something in a relationshi, its so deeply unbalanced and biologically wrong that it will fuck them up mentally no matter how it’s handled. children DO NOT understand adults and adult relationships and cannot exist in one in a healthy manner. they’re meant to construct relationships with peers. not adults.
it’s the adults responsibility to understand that a child is a CHILD and forming a romantic/sexual relationship with them will interrupt their growth and cause irreversible damage in their developing brains because it’s not supposed to work like that even on a biological and psychological level.
a child cannot consent. and your inability to realize that consent laws exist to protect them from people like you who would take advantage of them the first change you get makes you a disgusting danger.
-don’t reblog if you’re a map/map supporter, this is not an argument and it upsets me to talk to you so thanks
