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Just going to reply to you because I don’t want to retype this a hundred times in the thread. I get exactly what you’re saying and I find it very hard to disagree with any of it. But if this kind of fantasy play acting ever crossed into someone pretending to be underage I don’t think I’d say it’s okay and maybe I’m badly misreading the room but I’m not sure anyone else here would either. So there has to be some line somewhere and I can’t find it
Again, it's pretending. it's not real. It might personally give you the ick, and that's fine. That's the point of consent, none one should be made to engage in a sexual act that they don't want to. But when you start drawing arbitrary lines about what consenting adults can and can't do, based on your own personal icks, that's an issue.
For example, Age play is something that a lot of trans women engage in, and that fact is often weaponized against them by people who want to demonize trans people as inherently dangerous to children.
I am transfem and while ageplay isn't my thing, my first exposure to the very concept of transness, as a young kid, was an episode of a reality show. In this episode the brilliant minds over at TLC took this otherwise very sweet seeming trans woman, who was into ageplay kink because it allowed her to reclaim a childhood she never got to have, and demonized her for it.
The other half of the episode was, if I recall correctly, about a person who drank bleach. The show went to great lengths to demonize this trans woman for her otherwise harmless quirk, and treated her behavior as equivalently dangerous to that of the bleach drinker. That kind of framing did a lot of damage to my self conception. Told me that my desire for transition was not only inherently a perversion, but actively dangerous.
So, while you might not like it, demonizing behavior done between consenting adults just ain't it. Personally, I trust the person engaging in consensual play between grown adults more than I trust someone who conflates fiction and reality, because they think it's yucky. The content of that play is irrelevant.
Then I guess I don’t understand why we hate the really a 4000 year old dragon stuff
Personally, I don't necessarily care. I've see real children be incinerated by US made bombs in Palestine enough times that I struggle to care about some fictional drawings. Plus, I've never seen a firm causal link made between 4000 year old loli hentai, and actual abuse of children. It just doesn't sound like any of my business. Not when the West is undeniably killing real children as we speak.
Weebs and Gamers^TM^ famously have less of a grasp on sex than your average porn watcher anyway. But I could always be wrong about all this, I suppose.
The point I'm making though, is that scurrying around, looking for some moral, ethical, line for what kinds of consensual acts between adults are "good" vs "bad" is a fruitless exercise. Was consent enthusiastically given? Is everyone involved adequately informed, and taking safety precautions? Then who cares? Not my monkeys, not my circus. People should be empowered by the systems around them to make their own decisions about their gender and sexuality, not arbitrarily restricted.
You expressed concern earlier about "badly misreading the room". Just for some perspective, I have concerns about expressing my, I think very tepid, opinions about this because I know how trans women's sexuality is twisted and warped to attack us, and I know that Hexbear is a place that can be a little trigger happy with discourse and dunking. I wouldn't be surprised if I caught a ban for my opinions in this thread, because transmisogyny runs deep, and it doesn't take a lot for a trans woman's word to be twisted against her. The stakes for us are different here.
"age play" where an adult plays a child = ok sometimes
drawing of CP for pedos to crank it to = not ok
I really don’t see what the difference is. I’d make both illegal if it were up to me but how are you drawing a line here?
people who experience trauma sometimes want to process it in a safe controlled environment. this is different from material produced for people who would inflict abuse on others.
Are most ageplay enjoyers trauma victims?
idk specifically, but another upsetting kink that we word filter is full of that.
Ageplay is a relatively common kink, certainly in many trans kink spaces I've been in. If adults are risk-aware and engaging in consensual kink, there's nothing wrong with it at all.