You feature sexy women and girls in your works. Are you a pervert?
PrevNode LinkNextWell, I don’t know about you, but I feel that a man who is attracted to women displaying competence, sexiness, strength, etc. - however manifested - has a healthy libido (or “sex drive”) rather than is a pervert, whose sexual preferences prevent him from functioning.
Anyway, do you really believe that when Taylor Swift depicted her friends and herself laying waste to a whole city in the videoclip for her song "Bad Blood" (and Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and similar, likely showed it more than once) that they actually are so violent in real life? While sometimes I felt a little like going on a mayhem rage when there was a lot of commotion outside when I was trying to sleep or concentrate, I didn't actually try to do that, and at most only ranted about it on online chat services or called the police. I believe no great action hero will ever deliberately kick a friendly cat or dog.
Furthermore, just because I write about stuff like that, does not mean I do not have enough self-control, or that I have sex with, sexually assault, or sexually harass, everything that moves.
Moreover, my fiction tends to be mild and hopefully in good taste. If you think it is bad, then you should try:
The Hebrew Bible, which many people have traditionally considered holy, and which features such texts as:
Song of Songs - I started reading it in Hebrew, and while I found it beautiful, it was too erotic for me to finish reading. Update: I was eventually able to complete reading it in the third or fourth or so reading.
Or, to a lesser extent, some of the modern slash fiction and other incest fiction that exist, and which:
Many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and even trans, people dislike.
Its authors are often otherwise sexually-healthy-functioning adults.
Now regarding their age: yes, I'm aware that some of them are underage. However, it may seem farfetched, but I think that underage girls and boys can still be competent, both in their tangible endeavours, but also in their sexual/romantic orientation. Expecting them to remain disadvantaged is detrimental.
Back at the time, Macaulay Culkin, who was the “alpha male” of a large part of the 1990s (despite his youth), raised a few eyebrows, when marrying at the age of 18 shortly after high school graduation. However, I recently heard of a Jewish couple of a husband and wife who were 15 years old then (with the girl pregnant), and as scary as it sounded, it didn’t seem too horrid of a thought. Some people learn faster than others.
Just another note about Culkin: some people also criticised him for possessing Marijuana and for its use. However, many young and not-so-young people I talked with have had a history of Marijuana use, or even Marijuana addiction. So I do not hold it against him. See my essay, “The Case for Drug Legalisation”, for why I think Marijuana, and all other illegal narcotics, should be made legal globally.
I also have a hypothesis that pleasure, education (learning and teaching), and creativity / conception, are closely intertwined. Since we cannot expect children to avoid having fun, or not to learn, we must accept the fact that they'll have sexual/conceptual experiences.
Moreover, note that E Nesbit, JK Rowling, Sesame Street, and Disney, all featured underage children in their works.
When PETA's twitter spoke against the sexualisation of catgirls in Anime, it was criticised for not going against Sesame Street, or My Little Pony, or Disney and being bullies.
So please pick on someone your size, or just admit you were wrong, and choose a more worthwhile battle.
Am I attracted to attractive underage girls? I admit I am, but no more than I am to those who are well above the age of consent (and usually much less). I suspect most other men do too (and women are attracted a little to underage boys), and repressing these emotions won't make the situation better. (One may still opt to suppress them instead, i.e.: acknowledge their presence but not act in accordance to them.) These feelings are automatic, harmless, and no amount of psycho-"therapy" will prevent them.
Moreover, as of 2023-09-24 the first and only time I recall "getting physical" with a MOTAS was when a girl who looked in her early 20s rapekissed me. 1st base? ½ base? Hardly a case of sexual assault, and it also wasn't my initiative, and the initiator seemed above the age of consent.