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With the difference that the huge number of satanic cults people assumed and talked about did not exist.
While the huge number of sexual assaults, rapes and sexual harassment sadly does exist.
I feel people are now starting to care more about putting the lid on it, by various degrees, without there being any real progress in the number of cases. People are "more aware" didn't really lead to more empathy or more help for sexual abuse survivors. There seems to be a bigger push into the direction "well it's just a part of life, stop talking about it already".
I don't think so, especially considering that we have 8 year olds on sex offender registries which is just retarded.
The problem with rape is that many times its very hard to impossible to prove, especially when time has passed. Sometimes it's possible with messages sent to and from, sometimes with a rape kit.
But what if there was a rape without witnesses where she was so afraid that she didn't move, and later je "simply" claims she was a consenting partner?
What if she actually was a consenting partner and then retroactively claimed it was rape?
Things get very muddy and dicey very quickly and we're still living in a "innocent until proven guilty" society, thankfully, but it does make rape a very complicated subject
Well, what do you propose?
Is it really so hard for you to agree we should start with "not putting 8-year-olds on the sex offender registry"?
I don't live in a country where something like that is a thing. We don't have a register for any type of offense.
But the person I asked wrote about rape in general. That's why I asked. It wasn't about a register for juvenile offenders.