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Cake day: August 28th, 2024

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  • We’re definitely not at the point that this brain development science should be affecting policy. Here’s an article from 2022 featuring commentary from several neuroscientists. And here are a couple important quotes:

    “Some 8-year-old brains exhibited a greater ‘maturation index’ than some 25 year old brains,”

    The interpretation of neuroimaging is the most difficult and contentious part; in a 2020 study, 70 different research teams analyzed the same data set and came away with wildly different conclusions.

    And here is a different article written entirely by a neuroscientist and released earlier this year.




  • We seem pretty well-aligned. Personally I think 16 is the absolute latest a person ought to have the liberty to do anything that we age restrict. I was talking to someone from Scotland recently where the Age of Majority is 16 and he said that it’s not uncommon there for 16yos to graduate their school system, marry their person, and start a family.

    So to me that is at least some amount of evidence that if we simply perceived 16yos as adults, they would behave more like adults.






  • This was exactly my experience. Extreme repression of my sexuality via religion.

    Shamed for every impulse. Shamed for masturbation (Not by them of course, they had someone from the church do it. I guess the idea of doing it themselves was just too fucking awkward for them). Shamed for porn (Back when porn was waiting 20 min for an image of tits to load).

    It is an overall tenet of my advocacy that this cannot possibly be right. We all hit puberty, all we want to do is fuck as we are driven towards it directly by nature.

    Maybe there is a societal need to curate that impulse, I can accept that. But not like this. Not through guilt, shame, and fear.