I think a lot of the kink-shaming and the… like, total denial that teenagers even HAVE any sort of sexual desire before they hit 18 comes from a real… victim blaming place? Like nobody will admit it outright, but it feels like the subtext of “No healthy woman would EVER have a noncondubcon fantasy it’s all a result of Rape Culture BrainwashingTM” and “HOW DARE YOU IMPLY TEENAGERS SOMETIMES THINK ABOUT SEX” is that if “”hypothetically””, a woman DID have rape-fantasies or teens had any [12]

shipping-isnt-morality:

feelings about sex other than utter terror and confusion then it’s the same thing as saying that they “"want to get sexually abused”“. As if sexual abuse from someone you were intersted toin was not actually abuse. I feel like Anti Discourse is teaching a lot of young teens to act performatively disgusted by sex to prove their “purity” and how much they don’t “desrve to get sexually abused”. (Same with women and acting disgusted by random kinks to a perfomative level). [2/2]

I……. worry about this quite a bit, tbh, because I see a lot of misconceptions about teenagers and women and sexual desires, and a lot of focus on the connection between those desires/fantasies and the actual victimization of women and teens.

No fantasy you have, or act out with consenting partners, could ever be responsible for someone hurting you or anyone else. Similarly, no sexual fantasy a teen has – and if my own adolescence is anything to go by, there’s probably quite a few – will ever change that the fault of statutory rape lies entirely with the older party.

I watched “diary of a teenage girl” a few months ago, and frankly I wish a lot more people would, because it gives a very honest look at teen sexuality.

probably all teens find aspects of sexuality confusing, and frightening, and overwhelming. That’s natural. What’s less natural is the fear that exploring those things will open you up to abuse.

there is nothing a teen can do, up to and including literally asking for it, that can make them responsible for being sexually abused by an adult.