Every time I hear about a liberal pro-natalist, I look to see if they've written or spoken against coercive fertility limitation in the criminal legal system, and unsurprisingly none of them have!

sexual violence is THE key operative mechanism of patriarchal enforcement & regulation of bodies, "penetrability," and sexuality/the heterosexual regime. queer oppression is more than thwarted desire. sexual freedom must begin with body autonomy & freedom from coercion

I wish our language didn't use the same phrase to refer to both a box of supplies and a modern foundling wheel.

Guardian article aside, feminist criticism of pornography isn't new or right wing. The motivation is to contain violence against women. Conservative sexual politics are about women being sexually subjugated by men.

I don't think any of the 27 dead children voted for Trump

they do this and then they publish "research" about how these tribes are so sexually enlightened they see csa as harmless and normal, if only those feminist prudes hadn't ruined everyone's fun with bourgeois moralism we could be so enlightened too etc, then that research becomes standard citation

rinse and repeat forever until every single paper on history or anthropology of childhood has to begin with "childhood is a social construct so who can say if sexual abuse is really all that bad?" or else it won't get published

(I'm no expert, I'm sure it's complicated, but I also know that a lot of parents hate their kids and judges do whatever they want, so judicial approval and parental consent don't really offer protection.

Also, marriage alone doesn't necessarily emancipate a minor in all states...)

In Tennessee, a minor can marry at 17 with parental consent, but the other party cannot be more than 4 years older. Similar in OH but judicial consent is required.

New Mexico allows pregnant children under 16 to marry a partner w/o age restrictions, even though the age of consent is 16...

From what I see of Texas in the news, it looks like a fascist hellhole, but they are ahead of states like California, Illinois, Hawaii, & New Mexico.

In Hawaii parents can marry off a 15 year old to an adult, but some red states at least have a MMA of 17 and protections like minimum age gaps.