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1 min readAug 7, 2021

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I see your point in that sex should be about healthy relationships too. My comment does not exclude that, though, just because I was focusing on the harmful side.

To your example of psychology and the abnormal psychology, okay. Sure. I get it. Yet one does not call themselves a Psychologist or become credentialed (licensed) as a psychologist until they have studied both. A psychologist may cause or be in harm if they fail to recognize abnormal psychology at play and treat it as normal.

This is exactly the point I was making previously. To live in rape culture you need to know what it is and how to deal with it to not be harmed by it.

That never meant that every sexual relationship or encounter you ever have in a rape culture is going to be a violent one. That kind of thinking is reductive and ill formed leaps of logic. Again, you cannot think of sex and sex discussion under a strict this or that paradigm. Stacking skill sets would be a better analogy.

All that was meant was that you can't stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. And you can't Kumbaya it away. You do so at your own peril. And getting back to the point of prevalent creepiness of older men toward prepubescent girls it's nigh impossible to anyway. They're going to be exposed to it anyway. It's that common. You might as well help provide context rather than let them form their own conclusions, which may be maladaptive.

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