True Left

Sexuality is a vulnerable aspect of many people's lives, in respect to addiction or trauma. Sensitive and impressionable children, no less any sensitive and impressionable individuals, need to be protected. This crucial protection is, bizarrely, being confused with oppression, which is the opposite. When a child is convinced their preferences are unimportant because they can't make sound decisions for themselves even regarding consent to being touched and must defer to adults, how can they be expected to resist unwanted sexual advances from adults? How can they be empowered over their own sexuality, when autonomy is outright denied to them and they're gaslighted and made to feel confused over their own desires? Even when anxiety and shame about "hedonism" are put on prepubescent children about their sexuality which is usually very playful, mild, and innocent?

Newsflash: Subjection to adults by children is LEARNED from repeated bullying just like this by adults, especially parental figures. In a just society, children would always feel free to express their non-consent and reject the requests or demands of adults. Addiction is the overvaluation of sexuality as a source of suffering and satisfaction, this is promoted by things like trauma and fear, peer pressure and overemphasis of sex. In what world it's promoted by the practice of making decisions for oneself over one's sexuality, I haven't a clue. If anything this gives us the opportunity to improve executive control (the ability to overcome base instincts and direct oneself toward the attainment of higher goals.)

Adult supremacism is terribly unjust to children and I'm glad there are people in the world speaking up against it, as well as the unfair treatment of those with different sexualities. It's insane we live in a world (at least in the West) where it's socially acceptable to express hatred toward children but not attraction.