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[–]greycloud246 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
i saw it, the title is inflammatory but overall the message wasn't bad. its been a while and it wasn't the greatest film, and i have a bad memory so there is that. basically the answer is all men are ephobophiles to a large degree, and society conflates this with pedophilia. people seem to forget that biology doesn't follow social norms. after girls hit puberty it is natural for them to be attractive to males, this is often conflated with pedophilia, but it is not really pedophilia. (pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent traits, which by definition are before puberty, not after puberty).
[–]chaquarius2 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
not gay men
[–]greycloud241 point 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
a very large number of gay men are also ephebophiles, they are simply attracted to teen boys instead of teen girls.
[–]chaquarius1 point 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
but not "basically all men" was my point. I think that's a wild sweeping generalization. Maybe maybe straight men are hardwired to be attracted to youth and childbearing. But I say by far and wide gay men are attracted to secondary sex characteristics that come after aging. Look at marketing that's directed at gay men: typically huge muscles and models are (or made to look) at the youngest 25.
[–]greycloud240 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
well there are exceptions to every rule. i imagine some guy out there is exclusively sexually attracted to trees. doesn't mean that the existence of that person erases any discussion we have that "basically all men are sexually attracted to humans".
when i say all men, what i really mean is 2 standard deviations of men (95%). there will always be outliers that fall out of the norm. this is true of any human characteristic that you choose to talk about, other than hardline chemical discussions (ie. all humans require oxygen to survive).
[–]Lucifersmanslave2 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
Have you seen it?
[–]waves_of_ignerence1 point 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
Yeah, it does seem like OP might be jumping the gun a bit.
[–]J_r_s2 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
If they changed the flair it might promote an interesting discussion actually.
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