Facebook says asking users about condoning pedophilia ‘was a mistake’
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We deserve better. Let's build tools truly focused on the community and the well-being of those who participate to better connect and uplift the world around us.
I log into FB at home:
"Hey FrozenTuna, do you think its okay to solicit 14 y/o's for nudes?"
"No"
"What do you think fb should do about this behavior?"
"What the actual fuck..."
I don't think its a stretch to imagine myself trying to email my entire internet history to friends and family trying to be transparent lol. Even accusations can be a death sentence in the US.
what exactly is your point?
[0] “a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children”; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
I'm not sure what relevance this has.
> The article is about Facebook.
Yes, it's specifically about a Facebook survey questions about how users would want Facebook to address adult solicitation of sexual images from post-pubescent minors, which the article incorrectly calls “pedophilia”.
Soliciting such pictures is clearly illegal and widely and, IMO, rightly condemned. It is not, however, pedophilia, or in any way behavior associated with pedophilia. (Sexual attraction to prepubescent children is pedophilia, and is abnormal in and of itself; sexual attraction to post-pubescent children is not in and of itself abnormal, though an adult pursuing such an attraction is, for reasons of capacity for mature consent, viewed—quite correctly, IMO—as generally exploitive and worthy of condemnation in modern society.)
Sorry that the general public does not follow the guidelines of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
He/she is not just being pedantic, but also disingenuous by attempting to paint it as clear cut black and white. Hebephilia is absolutely closely related to pedophilia, and should not be tolerated any less.
IIRC, that’s true in two senses:
(1) Most of the normal age range for hebephilia (11-14) is within the age range used to define pedophilia for diagnostic purposes (under 13) and much of it is below the median age of puberty in either sex, so much hebephilia is pedophilia in either of itd strict senses (the “prepubescent” one or it's age-based operationalization in the DSM), and
(2) the middle category in the three-way classification into pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia doesn't have a lot of evidentiary support for being a real distinct category separate from the ones on either side.
> and should not be tolerated any less.
I'm not making an argument about the degree to which adult male approaches to minors of different ages should be tolerated (whether or not they are backed by the kind of primary or exclusive attraction that would make any kind of paraphilia.) OTOH, I think there is plenty of evidence in law,nculture, and research that (1) the attractions are fundamentally different, and (2) the degree of social outrage directed at them is substantially different; for both reasons, calling a question about something that concerns conduct that is explicitly not indicative of pedophilia as being on about condoning pedophilia is an inappropriate use of emotionally loaded language that obscures rather than illuminates the issue.