• Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    wrest away the hard won sexual agency of women by infantilizing a woman, removing all of her agency

    After 20 some years of reading blogs, personal essays and other anecdotal accounts of personal trauma, I’ve honestly come to the conclusion that people don’t have agency, or if they do, they don’t want it. Especially when it comes to sex.

    Turns out humans are messy idiots who often choose to do things they almost immediately regret and often express a desire for society or some other “big other” to police their behaviors to prevent them from making decisions they regret. Most people do express this desire that literally because it runs up against our fetishized concept of “freedom”, but I think it’s a desire we all have and that all the “age gap” stuff is an manifestation of it, we want society to police our sex more so we don’t consent to things we end up regretting.