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Is it okay for a community like c/fauxbait to exist on this platform? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This probably isn't the best place for this but something I want to have been mentioned.

Obviously porn in general is fine, even the more risqué or honestly even unsanitary isn't really a problem to me. And yes I understand all the women are of legal and there's verification. But isn't this still problematic? They're being sexualized for the reason of looking like they are too young to be sexualized. That seems like a great way to encourage pedophilia. It's a gross concept, especially given the median age on this platform.

And yes, I've blocked it for myself because I'm too old to want to see that when I'm scrolling /all. But I still think it's a bad message to leave out there.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I want to be clear, the way the community is named is not, "look at this sexy young woman" it is, "look at this nude of what looks like a high school girl, isn't that hot?"

Also, this is more of cultural problem that needs some societal retraining to fix for real.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I fully agree with your last statement. It's not just women either -- I'm gay, and I see it as a problem in my demographic as well. For some reason, a shocking number of people really, really want to sexualize extremely young looking people. Even outside of communities dedicated to things like this, it's extremely prevalent in things like porn. I've got no problem with porn in theory, but so much of it seems centered around fantasies involving massive power imbalances / predatory behavior.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I don’t exactly expect that a smallish internet fourm can fix the fetishization of high school children across the english speaking world, but we absolutely can effect this preticular lemmy community.

While I also have it blocked, it is really hard to say recommend lemmy to friends when even from beehaw you have “i can’t believe it’s not child porn” making up a bunch of /all.