Just shouting into the void, but if I hear one more person tell me that oh, there’s not so such thing as CP on Ao3, it would be censorship if they did any moderation, it’s not the same as real CP, I will explode. And these same people who say this shit, think that Loli hentai is so terrible. I’m not defending that gross shit either, but there’s no real children involved in that either.
No, I don’t believe in nor support in censorship. We should be writing about real people and real situations. Sexual assault does exist in real life, teenage sexuality does exist and can be told in a realistic light without sexualizing real teenagers, and it’s important that we tell these stories! Telling stories about negative sexual experiences as a child is important, it’s important that we write about reality. Especially if people are using it as an outlet for trauma.
However, have you not been scrolling through looking for explicit or just regular fan fiction, and see a fic that’s marked Underage and CLEARLY written for some sick fucking pedophilia fantasy???? I saw a fic that shipped two Honkai characters, one who’s clearly a minor with one who was an adult, with tags like “X character is 14” “X character has a boypussy” etc, etc. There were other kink related tags, it was not written for exploration, or for trauma, just for their own sick pleasure. I WILL NOT support writing shit for their clearly illegal fetishes. And all the comments were saying, this is exactly what I like this is perfect! This shit is absolutely disgusting. Not to mention the numerous fan fictions I’ve seen with tags like “Hung Shota” or “Loli” smh.
Stop pretending people aren’t using this site to write harmful gross shit and supporting other people’s fantasies. I love Ao3, and I think a lot of people who hate on it lack media literacy, but Ao3 is not some perfect platform that’s free from all hate and terrible things. This needs to change, but there’s no good way to do so without potentially removing freedoms.
