I am so dreadfully tired of all these “"antis”“ who think that it’s charming and noble to dictate to other people what stories they’re allowed to tell and how they are and are not allowed to play make believe.
The idea that there is something special and magical about sexual arousal and desire that takes away your willpower and good judgement is a lie made up by rapists to excuse rape.
I want every person involved in the debate about proship/antiship, censorship of fiction, harassment, art by traumatized and mentally ill people and what art constitutes “pedo shit” to please:
Wow I love to see extremely racist purity wank first thing in the morning.
“Fictional children can’t consent”. no one in fiction can consent, you dunce! Fictional characters do not have free will!
You’ve covered the important bits already but also:
Fictional children can be capable of consenting in-universe.
I could (I won’t because SQUICK but I could) write a story with a highly-gifted highly-mature ten-year-old who is at the developmental level of “our”…. say, thirty-year-olds. That particular ten-year-old can obviously absolutely consent in-universe. But real ten-year-olds are not really thirty-year-olds. If nothing else, (but again, ten-year-olds have lots of ‘else’ in reality), actual real-life ten-year-olds really doing a thing are still legally their parents’ responsibility.
1000% correct.
If ability to consent within the constructed fiction is what matters (thus conferring the ability to consent on most fictional adults)
then QED, it follows that it must be possible to write a fictional child who is capable of consent within the constructed fiction, and have that consent be just as meaningful as any fictional adult’s.
It’s all pretend. It’s all imaginary.
if I can imagine a 10 year old assassin, I can imagine I 10 year old hooker.
I don’t particularly WANT to, but it’s objectively no different.
