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Moral arguments aside, there's an interesting empirical question here: how many straight men actually feel no attraction to (pubescent) teen girls? That sounds
by pjscott 5y ago
Moral arguments aside, there's an interesting empirical question here: how many straight men actually feel no attraction to (pubescent) teen girls? That sounds like a set of preferences that would have a hard time evolving, and one that would have been seen as fairly odd in most historical periods I know of.
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- KittenInABox 5y agoI just think it's bizarre to describe not being sexually attracted to minors as inhuman. That seems to imply the poster believes all humans cannot resist flirting with minors due to the power of sexual attraction. To minors. This is just a very bizarre take.
- CRConrad 5y ago> [H]ow many straight men actually feel no attraction to (pubescent) teen girls? I've long found much younger women to be ever less of a sexual turn-on. When I was fifty, it felt like "anything under thirty-five is pedophilia"; now (at 57) that limit is probably somewhere around forty. Sure, I could still see myself hugging some nubile sixteen-year-old -- just like I could a boy the same age, namely in a comforting "There, there, dear toddler, did you hurt your knee? We'll put a band-aid on it" way. (Though I probably wouldn't actually do that either, knowing how it would likely be construed.) Dunno if this is simply due to diminishing testosterone, or (feels just as likely to me), if you want to get into evolutionary psychology: parenthood. Maybe we've evolved to be programmed to, after a certain age, not so much constantly strive to procreate, but to take care of the offspring we and others have already set into the world? But maybe if you haven't already done that, the drive to procreate isn't replaced by one to nurture. (Hm, does anybody know if the guy has kids?)