When you tell people they shouldn’t want to fantasize sexually about children their #1 argument is almost always that they don’t see how it’s any different from violent or dark fiction like horror villains or first person shooters or torture dungeon bondage smut, and that’s fucking stupid because a child is a normal everyday kind of extremely vulnerable person that an adult can hurt literally just by touching once. None of that horror or extreme fetish stuff can be that easily applied to real life just anywhere, you can always find a consenting adult happy to larp it with you, and when you do find a consenting adult to larp sexy slasher monsters then you’re still just eroticizing an inanimate scenario and props rather than eroticizing the concept of children. Imagine someone training their brain to think just “children,” period, are a sexy idea and believing that’s no worse than being into handcuffs or spooky murder movies.
Another huge point those anti-anti weirdos miss about the whole thing is like…. the reason we don’t want the sexualization of minors be increasingly normalized in fiction is becuase there is already an ENORMOUS REAL WORLD ISSUE with minors being sexualized, groomed, and abused and people REGULARLY getting away with it. Sexualization of minors being advertised and sold in social media, movies, tv, you name it. And it’s NORMAL and victims are constantly blamed, predators constantly excused. It’s not that people like me and bogleech just love the concept of kink shaming for shits and giggles and that’s the end of it, like, we are fighting AGAINST the norm of children being sexualized and harmed. The reason we don’t give a shit if people wanna bang like hannibal lecter or w/e is becuase there isn’t exactly a worldwide societal issue with murderous cannibals being excused and young impressionable people being traumatized by that for life on a MASSIVE scale. That’s the difference!! The “fiction doesn’t affect reality” argument when it comes to sexualization of minors is BAFFLING to me becuase it literally IS reality, right now every day, and it’s VERY MUCH fed by fictional media