Zara's twitter account has already been suspended, but I found what looks like her complete thread on the subject of adult-minor sexual interactions here:
https://www.upcarta.com/resources/9...ent-hits-you-with-what-can-only-be-described-
I think the very end of it is rather important:
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DISCLAIMER:
Please do not interpret this thread as incitement to any illegal or otherwise irresponsible activity. Obey the law and be wary of purity campaigners, TERFs, vigilantes, activist law enforcement, glowies/fake AAMs and vociferous bigots, wherever you are.
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I think she should have put that at the start of her thread, not the end.
Anyway, moving on, I think she was way too cavalier about the problems an adult-minor sexual relationship entails, at least in a lot of the U.S. Perhaps her biggest mistake is thinking that the reticence to adult-minor sexual relations is generally just an issue if highly religious parents are involved. Here's what she said there:
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The answer to this question, is (deep breath...) that sex between a minor and an adult isn't *intrinsically* abusive, nor innately harmful!
But socially "inappropriate" in christian america... sure, I won't contest that one. Irresponsible? Well, maybe, particularly if highly religious parents or radfem-adjacent moms are alerted, which can lead to serious legal repercussions that I have witnessed first-hand.**
I'd definitely be interested in hearing what she witnessed first hand, but seeing as she's been all but erased from the internet (both her twitter and her linked in are gone), probably not going to happen anytime soon.
On another issue, I believe she's right that consent is very important, but she doesn't mention informed consent. She does mention the importance of information though:
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Consent is such an important subject to teach when it comes to preventative public health, as when kids are equipped with the *right kind* of information and feel they are in control, secondary harms can often be averted.
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She also says the following, which I found interesting:
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If any of them ask for evidence, or repeat the hogwash about sex being intrinsically harmful (usually learned from the trafficking/rescue industry, prohibitionists, quack TV doctors and "grooming" RW culture warriors) I then immediately point them towards the work of Bruce L Rind, described by one author as "scientifically correct, politically incorrect".
Rind's original 1998 study in the thread attached, has not only been passed by regulators...
twitter.com/86_Sedan/status/1524560476776153089
...but successfully repeated on two occasions (Ulrich, Daly), and his more recent work with a Finnish sample is VERY interesting.
https://mirror.amapin.love/download/rind-2022-your-5-minute-guide/
For LGBT and Queer kids, I usually reproduce this flyer, which informs them that positive experiences are far from an outlier, nor something to be ashamed of.
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I'm sure most if not all here would disagree with that last sentence. I myself think she's not thinking things through, particularly when viewed from a societal lense. I took a look at the 5 minute guide to Rind's paper. Quoting from it:
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Importance of age difference
In minor-older sex, partner age difference mattered for girls but not boys. Boys reacted positively, equally so for
minor-peer and minor-older sex (77 vs. 78% at the time). Girls involved with older persons reacted positively slightly
more than a third of the time (35–36%), which was just over half as often as girls involved with peers for reactions at
the time (61%). Adolescent (12+) girls sexually involved with adult males 5 to 7 years older, however, reacted no more
negatively than when involved with peer-aged males.
Girls in younger age groups, going from 15–17 to 12–14 to under 12, progressively reacted more negatively and less
positively. For boys, on the other hand, those in the adolescent range (12–14 and 15–17) reacted nearly the same, with
only younger boys (under 12) showing more negative and less positive reactions.
Boys with adults reacted negatively at the time (9.8%) significantly less often than boys with older minors (28.6%). They
also reacted positively at the time more often than boys with older minors (83.0% vs. 66.7%).
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