You cannot ban me in a way that matters.
Throughout last year I ran a survey on age gap romantic/sexual experiences. I closed it in January and finally found time and motivation to post the results to my blog. The questions were formulated in the following manner: In addition, I asked people to only report experiences that ended at least 3 years ago. The…
The title of this post, “youth intimate abuse”, is a term I came up with as a more inclusive and accurate alternative to “child sexual abuse”. As many of you know, I was sexually abused from age 11 to approximately 13-14 (I don’t remember the exact ending date). I did not realize this was sexual…
I’d like to preface this text by saying that I don’t believe youth liberation itself to be so strongly tied to contact discourse that talking about it should immediately invoke that discourse and prompt the speaker to identify their stance. Neither any stance by itself, without any wider context clarifying what exactly the person wants,…
There are some groups that either take up a significant part of the population or can’t be considered a deviation from the norm for some other reason, yet still share many common traits with deviant groups in how they are treated. Items are not designed with them in mind, they are not included in what people…
“I support every form of [sexual] self expression, for as along everyone involved is a consenting adult” is something you will hear often if you do any sexuality-related discourse. It is believed to be a very radical and liberating position. However, it is not. Reason number one, the most important and obvious: younger people have…
This is a restored post from my WordPress, originally posted on August 3, 2022. I still agree with what I said here. Several years ago, while writing my “Rebellion vs assimilation” post, I referred to gay marriage legalization as an example of rebellion – because for me, with all my Russian social experience, it seemed…