I think it’s actually more complicated. Things like sexual orientation, absolutely, some parts of desire are clearly hardwired in. But also there’s plenty that’s able to be induced or changed for any number of reasons.

My primary example is that when I was younger I found tattoos to be a hard turn off, piercings too. Anti tattoo sentiments were part of my family’s form of classism, but over the years I got more positive experiences with people who have them and wound up sleeping with people despite them and eventually through exposure and changing of biases got to the point that I now rarely find one to take away from someone’s beauty and often find them to add to it.

In general it’s rude as hell to assume some aspect of someone else’s tastes can (or should) change, we can’t know them particularly well. But we can challenge our own biases and be open to changes in our tastes coming from those challenges.

Now, as for pedophilia, it’s worth trying to change it if possible, and regardless building safety systems to ensure that it’s difficult for these people to offend. But also, I do suspect that the rise of the rich and powerful engaging in pedophilia is something that at least some of them are inducing. They begin by fetishizing youth as a display of power and creep towards the hard line our culture places at 18, and eventually they cross it. I simply cannot believe, until given evidence to the contrary, that such a large portion of the rich and powerful engaging in sexual abuse of minors is unrelated to the fetishization of youth, the trend of the rich and powerful chasing young adults, and the fact that they can get away with anything they want.

I’ve met the sort of people who’d try with a vulva. But they probably wouldn’t be the first to do this. They might try after seeing it’s only against the rules to use a penis

And yet even when I’m part of the ruling class I manage to get screwed… It’s not my fault I only want to socialize about things I like

Unfortunately the perverts I hang out with are largely programmers and nurses and I’m neither, which really kills my networking options

I really need to find a similar enough server to put an alt on

Wow, under half? Better than I expected

Yep, not even a little surprising. Transphobia and misogyny often go hand in hand

I know that’s why I dislike it. Swingers do nonmonogamy differently from me and thus they must be my primary enemy, even above the people who oppose all nonmonogamy

Get really confused because I’ve never been then before

I wouldn’t blame the makeup, I think he’s just papotoxic. Should probably keep him away from all religious leaders to be certain though

And for anyone who doesn’t know, pineapples are associated with swingers

No he lives in a country where he’s head of state that provides universal healthcare to all of its citizens

The Logos didn’t do that, it was the Father

Cancer can take a while to be detectable. I just blamed him automatically

He’s also spotty on other social issues, namely queer rights and abortion. He, like his precedessor, is a complicated figure in a lot of ways. Mind you by the standard of popes they’re fucking saints, but that’s because several popes prior had been pretty damn bad in several areas, especially defending child molestation, residential schools in North America, and the laundries in Ireland.

He’s a pretty good pope, I hope he can get his organization to stop fighting against my rights in my country.

Fucking hell Vance gave this one cancer‽

Ok a vegetarian version of that would slap tho. Absolutely not a taco, but I’m in

Yeah I suspect they’re smoking because of stress and lying about why

Nope, gas

Can’t burn or recycle it without releasing chlorine