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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by spoiler on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:20AM (#30124982)
I see how you jumped to that conclusion, but I think you're conflating two things. First, back then it was sadly very common for children to be considered sexuality mature (age of consent in some European countries is still 13). That's been largely resolved by legal frameworks today (paedophiles still exists, but everyone agrees what they're doing is bad)

And the other idea you're conflating is that (which I think the article dispels) is that feudal Japan consider youth to be tied to age. For all we know, it might be a concept unfamiliar to us westerners that got projected onto "youth" to make the article approachable to Western audiences.

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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by gdfsssdgfv on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:17AM (#30125236)
In the US, sometimes less

"In the United States, as late as the 1880s most states set the minimum age [of consent] at ten to twelve (in Delaware, it was seven in 1895)."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent>

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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by woebegonia on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:45AM (#30125350)
It's unclear what you're implying as you've carefully not spelt it out, but in any case posting a fact from a short-lived account does not make it not-a-fact. Respond to the post not the poster.
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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by cosmin800 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:17AM (#30125500)
I am implying he/she/whoever may be a minor attracted person and he knows is a bad thing, and needs to hide his true identity under a newly created account to slap me in face with it was fine to have sex with seven year old kids in Delaware in 1895. Why would anyone post with a random fresh account a link to Wikipedia? Why? Why do you need to hide when you are posting a link to a fact? Why do you need to hide when expressing your opinions?

Now to reply the post, just because 100 years ago was legal it doesn't mean it was normal or moral. The post is more enforcing in the same direction - legal in ancient Japan, legal in modern Delaware. I am waiting for more examples of legal pedophilia.

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