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They use children's welfare as a thin veil to promote censorship, abstinence, purity culture and anti-privacy legislation. They publicly support Trump, anti-immigration policies and increased digital surveillance. They petition against liberal and sex-positive media, even sex education.
Edit: Margaret Mead has some interesting writing and studies on how children raised in sex-positive environments are less likely to develop anxiety and paraphelias as adults.
It is not at all about that. This spurious nonsense is how you destroy a real democracy. I expect people to be a better fucking parent and talk to their kids. While at the same time, sexuality is a natural part of the human experience. Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs is admissible in court while Puritan fuckwit doctrine and dogmatic bipolar populism is not. The same people have a pedo convicted rapist as a president. Dogma is blind to truth and reality. Dogma is authoritarian. Dogma is fascist.
There is no morality here. The only two scientifically relevant ages are puberty defining sexual maturity and cognitive development at around the age of 25. The age of 18 is only selected as the age when male children are large enough to carry the kit of mass murder orgies into battle. It is the earliest age because they lack the cognitive development and logic skills to think for themselves. That is some truly monstrous and sadistic shit. Attaching sexuality to that age is insane nonsense.
Nothing about real democracy is pretty. It is not made to your image of ideal. You have a right to be wrong, a requirement to be skeptical, and a right to all information, and a right to dissent in all nonviolent forms. So does everyone else. The state has the right to seek restitution if you cause substantive harm to another. That is fucking ugly and offensive, get the fuck over it. No one is causing you substantive harm. Kids are not your slaves and the government is not here to be the parent. As a kid, I could and did draw my own porn. Your spurious dystopia is authoritarian trash.