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Re:The Right to Read (1997) by identity0 on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:37PM (#24875067)
No, he never advocated for "child rape." He advocated for sexual relationships between minors and adults. I find it disgusting, but to say that he supports child rape is simply flat-out wrong, and it is a smear.
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Re:The Right to Read (1997) by gumby on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:02PM (#24875296)
The presumption is that a child can not reasonably be assumed to have adequate agency to assent (especially in regards to power relationships etc), therefore any contact is inherently non-consensual and thus by definition "rape".

I can abstractly conceive of philosophical arguments around emergence of ability to consent, but here in the real world I am solidly with the majority on this one.

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