so it's only natural for men to start fetishzing more with small women

I do think it is connected

not the only factor, but a factor

We get it stop circle jerking about it

I can't deny the popular notions of shaving a girls pussy and using nair and cosmetics doesn't make her look younger and teenaged, and its seen as more erotic than girls who don't do those things to a lot of people. mostly because of advertisements but its also a natural instinct in us to recognize healthiness and youth as appealing, reproductively fertifle.

Fun fact that's why scribble got butthurt and blocked me

But theres a point where they're not healthy or reproductively fertile when the so-called horseshoe theory i think plays a role here.

as far as being a pedophile or any of the -philes related to being attracted to youth, I think it says more about a person's self esteem than it does about their sexual preference.

And self-esteem these days is at an all time laughable low.

there's also the fact that society now treats adults as kids for a longer and longer time too

there's no longer responsibility until you hit 25+

while 50 years ago it wasn't uncommon to have marriges at a young age

I don't think its society that treets the kids as kids longer. I think its the parents. Gen X is terrible about that.

Society still says 18 years old for smoking, 21 for drinking. School, college, job. Nothing's changed there. Its the parents that have lagged.

it's not just parents when laws are being put in place that also reinforce it

what laws?

in Europe there's a lot of changes to drinking age for example

they are now trying to control what kind of drinks you can drink

not just "alcohol"

I'm not aware, but I do know 18 was the drinking age in the UK and some euro states so if they're changing it to 21 thats probably not all that bad. But going back to it being the parents faults, they're overprotective because the parents themselves were latchkey kids and didnt get enough attention from their boomer folks.

Its an overreaction that has crippled kids

colleges are also almost free in Europe too

meaning kids don't even have to make a choice

the default is college

just as if it was high school, and without any added responsibility

so you're saying *socialism* <:TimThink:482277772497125378>

I mean that's always to blame.

as an aside, drinking age has stayed the same (18) for a looong time in my country, but the amount kids drink has drastically gone down with the increase of social media

in mine, the drinking age was 16

they increased some drinks to 18

basically you can only drink beer at 16

I started parting at 15 tbh

thats funny. but i'm an American and we gotta wait (legaly at least) til 21. we don't of course.

don't most kids do it illegally though?

yep

because that's what happens in my country

imo it doesn't make sense to say you can get drunk on beer

but forbidden to do so with vodka

also gets things very complicated for bars to comply

also... drugs are available everywhere 😂

the way they solved that around here is beer and weaker is 18, I think above 22% is 21 years