I'm not advocating for pedophilia, and never would, I explained the origin of AoC and implied it has contributed to the global birthrate crisis, which I think it has, it's obvious that if fertile females are looking for long term mates earlier in life the likelihood of births go up. An asian country facing national erasure will likely recognize this and either drop AoC all together or reduce it far beyond what most people in the west, myself included, would be comfortable with. And to clarify my position I think lowering AoC a couple of years, (16) in the US could work to mitigate our birthrate crisis but I would only support it if a mountain of social and educational reforms including a ban on profiting from pornographic works, racial reforms that at minimum allow segregation and freedom of association, a series of pro marriage and anti hook-up culture reforms including the enforcement of adultery laws, segregated education by sex and marital status and higher quality of education so young white men can be financially established enough to have a family by 23. Even then I think the primary issues hampering births is the time it takes men to establish themselves and the social taboos around them dating younger women. Though I've written much the importance of reforms I would find tolerable are likely marginal without a fundamental social shift and without that shift would harm the institution of marriage. Reforms which I would find intolerable: the removal of AoC in it's entirety, lowering it to the age of menarche or an arbitrary age as proxy for menarche, I expect will succeed in stopping the bleeding in regards to birthrate decline but likely at great cost if a society accepts it, economic issues will be dramatic unless subsidies and special schools for young mothers are implemented and even then the best a people can hope for is a return to a production economy in a time of automation, so basically demographic salvation for economic stagnation. You might be hoping for some moral stance on the issues beyond the pragmatic outlook I have given, children should be free to be children but in my experience we are failing as a society largely because of our infatuation with childhood and while I think girls and boys should be free from the sexual advances, aggressions and transgressions of their peers and adults and that innocence should be maintained for as long as is healthy there is a point that certain forms of innocence become a dangerous naivety and that the question of innocence and maturity is not magically resolved by the completion of your 18th transit of the sun. I dated girls when I was in highschool who were more mature at 15 than 40 year old women I know today so age as an argument after a certain point feels like a non-sequitur to me. The human brain is still under biological growth and development untill 24 but I have no doubt you'd agree that raising AoC 6 years to suit this established fact is foolish for the exact reasons I've stated already so the question becomes when is the adolescent brain mature enough and the answer in truth isn't an arbitrary one size fits all number that's why in a pre AoC west you needed their father's permission at every step and that's what I would advocate for today if it stood any chance. This next part isn't advocacy but a twisted irony I suspect in the long run of a post AoC east asian country you would see a patriarchal protectionist society develop that has neither a need for AoC, because fathers protect their daughters until they are ready to mary, nor a birthrate crisis, though if it happened in china there's a good chance their cities fall to barbarism and utterly collapse. I know doing the same in the west, as it is today, would produce a degenerated society that makes sodom, gomorrah and weimar berlin look like a north texas church service. I take such accusations seriously and that's why I have articulated my position as such and disentangled my advocacy and support from my predictions. I wholly recognize the predictions are unsavory but if I had made a prediction of the state of things as they are today in regards to faggots and trannies 20 or even just 10 years prior I suspect you and others would have accused or suspected me of support for such vile shit then as well on the basis of it being rather demoralizing and outlandish but I did predict it back in 2012 and gave up on pursuing a career in research psychology because I wanted no part in the evil I saw coming. It should be obvious that I'm making no excuses nor advocating for/normalizing pedophilia, if I were of such predilection I can't imagine I'd using this site in the first place. I have reviewed the ToS and the only gripe I see is that somebody might have interpreted the bit about the origins of AoC as "normalization" I don't think it's controversial to think my ancestors weren't pedos and didn't need AoC, because I believe they protected their daughters as is the natural instinct. I believe AoC is important in a fallen nation without fathers but also that AoC is to blame in the fall because it is a cornerstone holding up feminism, which could not have formed without the whore culture enabled by it and other laws, precedents, and a culture of unrestrained liberty which cut down adultery and fornication laws, no AoC for a generation or two and feminism will collapse but that would be a disaster for our now hypersexual society, a society that upholds purity is what we had before, now they want to ban the concept of virginity because turning 18 is a license to be a degenerate whore that no man can stop or judge. And as somebody who remembers middle school I can tell you the supposedly shared cultural consciousness against robbing children of their innocence was on its last leg 20+ years ago, that's not normalization, that's me saying I want more affirmative protections for children and that our law and culture as they are aren't up to the task but somehow our ancestors who did not abrogate responsibilities to the law didn't have schoolgirls getting fingered on the bus while singing ADIDAS by korn or anything of the like.