I’m not talking about queer people getting called groomers. I know why that’s happening. I’m referring more to a more general fear of pedophilia instead of just repackaged homophobia.
I feel like I’m hearing about it like every other week. For instance, parent bloggers noticing that their engagement skyrockets when they post their kids eating hotdogs or in swimwear. Another example is an increasing trend of people on Pinterest creating walls and albums labelled “hot kids.”
I know that elite freaks are all pedos, but is pedophilia an actually growing problem among regular people? It seems to me like when suburbanites freak out about any other thing like BLM or immigrants marching through and razing their communities. Or the crime freakout in the 70s/80s.
Am I being naive and we actually need to be on high alert?
My understanding is that sexual activities with and between young persons was pretty much the norm in human history. It is only since like the 80s we really cared about it in the west. So boomers still think about it as forbidden fruit and controll all the media. So it is a specter we have not exercised. Complicating matters is that young persons usually want to learn and engage with their bodies in healthy ways that we have a society have no way to teach them. So there are several contradictory forces being worked through at the moment.