If someone ever finds themselves having to use the phrase “non-adult women” in defense of their actions, preeeeeetty sure you can write them off as the bad guy. They’re called children.
Certainly people under majority are regarded as children legally, or at least should be. We still have problems of child marriage and child labor here in the states which have been getting worse with the rise of the MAGA movement. Some states are relaxing their regulations regarding what kinds of work and when and how much that child employees can be expected to perform. The same people who want to take sexual advantage of our kids also want to use them for cheap labor operating hazardous machinery.
Curiously, I’m used to talking about adolescents as young men and young women as kids are often eager to grow up and have the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood (and are supposed to be practicing their conduct towards some day having such responsibility.) But there’s a difference between acknowledging what they strive to be, and exploiting their inexperience and naïvety for sex and labor.
And to be fair, it is acceptable for our institutions to exploit adults for sex and labor. Especially, so, when the victims are lacking in alternative means of survival. It should be illegal to do so regardless of whether the victims are adult or children.
If someone ever finds themselves having to use the phrase “non-adult women” in defense of their actions, preeeeeetty sure you can write them off as the bad guy. They’re called children.
Certainly people under majority are regarded as children legally, or at least should be. We still have problems of child marriage and child labor here in the states which have been getting worse with the rise of the MAGA movement. Some states are relaxing their regulations regarding what kinds of work and when and how much that child employees can be expected to perform. The same people who want to take sexual advantage of our kids also want to use them for cheap labor operating hazardous machinery.
Curiously, I’m used to talking about adolescents as young men and young women as kids are often eager to grow up and have the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood (and are supposed to be practicing their conduct towards some day having such responsibility.) But there’s a difference between acknowledging what they strive to be, and exploiting their inexperience and naïvety for sex and labor.
And to be fair, it is acceptable for our institutions to exploit adults for sex and labor. Especially, so, when the victims are lacking in alternative means of survival. It should be illegal to do so regardless of whether the victims are adult or children.