Many people here in the children's rights community have pages, and are told to limit what they post, so not to "trigger the pedophile" or "trigger his trauma". I, as a conservative Christian, am responsible for my own triggers on other pages, meaning I can just click off any time I want to. Yes, I am attracted to my triggers, but the whole world can't cater to me. I have to do my own homework in healing from trauma. Others may have values to stand up for their triggers, and those are their values. Mine are different.
What triggers the pedophile? Why should you care, dear advocates. The child isn't sinning in that picture, and you have no sexual motives for posting it, so why should you care how I react. If I comment one inch of sexual entitlement or depravity, kick me off the page immediately with a threat backing it up...because I just won't, because sexual gaslighting is against my Christian family values on sexual purity.
Gentle parenting pages used to show off children in less than full garb, to say the very least, and even now people might post pictures of children in swimsuits, but the post has a subject that is very different usually. Nope, stay on topic Max, is all you'll get as a purely mental response. Maybe the cursor gets stuck. Sexually objectifying words? That's abuse, and nobody should have to hide children just because I'm here. I must either deal with it, or face the consequences of sexualizing a child's half garb...It was a tool to net perpetrators, and perhaps help them in the rare case that they wanted help. I am solely responsible for how I treat children in photographs online.
My theology treats children not as "innocent beings" but as full legal persons and citizens of this country in their own right, with them owing absolutely nothing to you. When you see children that way, you can't help but notice how lovely and attractive they are, but know not to remind them that they are being viewed that way, in a way that they hardly ever notice...No image drives a crime. Choices drive a crime, and the image is an excuse.
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