Fr, sometimes I'll be side eyeing them, like wtf
with this logic, thriller writers are secretly killers themselves lol
Okay we are not saying it's as a facts, it's more like finding it morally questionable and finding it suspicious, since most of this authors like writing things like this, especially when romanticizing. I’m NOT saying everyone who reads or write this kind of content is going to become a child predator as a fact. That’s a completely different argument. Our point is that this type of content is much more directly connected to sexual attraction than watching fictional violence is to actually wanting to murder someone. That’s why people are naturally going to judge the two differently.
There’s also a reason this distinction matters. Research on actual child sexual abuse material has found connections between its consumption, sexual interest in children, cognitive distortions, and other risk factors among offenders. That doesn’t mean consuming it automatically means someone will eventually abuse a child, but it also means pretending there’s absolutely nothing concerning about the behavior isn’t reasonable either.
And before someone says, “But it’s fictional,” being fictional doesn’t automatically remove every reason to question it. Fiction can obviously contain disturbing things without the audience supporting them. The important question is what the story is presenting as appealing. There’s a huge difference between a story showing an adult abusing a child and making it clear that the abuse is horrifying, versus a story that deliberately romanticizes or sexualizes an adult-child relationship and expects you to see it as cute, desirable, sexy, or something to root for.
That’s also why the “people who enjoy violence would be murderers” argument doesn’t really work. The comparison isn’t simply “fictional bad thing vs. fictional bad thing.” It’s about what exactly the person is finding appealing. Someone can enjoy a crime thriller or violent action movie without having any desire to murder people. Violence in those stories is usually about action, suspense, horror, or the plot. But when the content is specifically sexualizing children, the child is literally part of the sexual appeal.
So yes, I think people are allowed to find that preference disturbing without automatically accusing everyone who consumes it of being a criminal. You don’t have to prove someone is going to commit a crime before you’re allowed to question or condemn something they find sexually appealing.
There’s a big difference between saying “this person is definitely a predator” and saying “there is something deeply concerning about an adult finding sexualized or romanticized relationships between adults and children appealing.” Those are two completely different claims
starting to think a lot of these authors are secretly pedos or r@pists (at least they have the desire to) with the way they make all their characters terrible people why we gotta slip such a deal breaker into what would otherwise be a great story