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Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook has admitted it was a "mistake" to ask users whether paedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website.
On Sunday, the social network ran a survey for some users asking how they thought the company should handle grooming behaviour. "There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook," one question began. "In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook's policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures."
The options available to respondents ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it".
A second question asked who should decide the rules around whether or not the adult man should be allowed to ask for such pictures on Facebook. Options available included "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" and "Facebook decides the rules on its own".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:30PM (5 children)
Earlier in the thread TMB admits to being molested by a 30 year old woman when he was 15 but like many molested kids he seems to have normalized the incident in his mind.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:23PM (1 child)
You hit on a very important point.
I even read this in commentary on the psychiatric manual that serves as the standard for diagnoses.
Basically, as a society we have a different attitude towards adult women who have sex with boys vs. adult men who have sex with girls. The latter is a terrible crime, the former, bad judgement. I guess a major part of this is that boys can't get pregnant. We also place a value on female virginity, or at least a low notch number, but have no qualms about a male with "experience." This can easily lead to underreporting of female initiated sex with male minors. I still think male adult, female minor must be higher than the reverse because men are more the initiators and risk takers in all areas of life.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:35PM
> We also place a value on female virginity, or at least a low notch number, but have no qualms about a male with "experience."
The way I saw it compared, "a key that opens a lot of locks is useful, a lock that is opened by many keys is useless".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:40PM (2 children)
It was inherently non-consensual because she was 30 and he was 15. I know this because I've arbitrarily defined it as such, and anyone who says otherwise is merely trying to 'normalize' it. Great logic, there. You don't seem to be able to question the fundamental underpinnings of the system that creates these arbitrary age of consent laws, and nor do you seem to be able to take into account the wishes of the individuals in question.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:30PM (1 child)
A 15 year old is not ready for this. His mind is not mature enough to make the decision. And hell, since this *is* Uzzard we're talking about, it may be he's *still* not mature enough [/cheap shot]
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @03:48AM
Stop objectifying 15-year old males!
It wasn't that long ago when a boy became a man at age thirteen.