Grrl Power #1045 – Return of the Attack of the Boobs!
Sydney will eventually gain a +1 resistance to this attack given the frequency of her exposure to it.
Parfait is about three weeks past her 18th birthday, FYI. Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky.
Dabbler has been around, but there are places in the universe she conspicuously avoids. Puritania IV, for one, where people flog themselves for the amount of skin they expose bathing even though they wear shifts, and men wear penis clothespins from the age of 4. (Apparently it’s some psychotic anti-masturbation thing that some parents did in the ’40’s and ’50’s in the US. I thought I should clarify here because I’ve heard people joke about it, but I had to look it up. I actually thought it might have been something done for entertainment.)
She hasn’t been to a lot of planes of existence, but that’s because most of them are theoretical. Their laws of physics are different enough that corporeal beings can’t exist there. Also a lot of them are just plain made up. Demons use these probably fictional planes like theological hells. “Be good little Athorgazi, or you’ll go to the Plane of Having to Pee So Bad You’ve Started to Sweat But You Have to Give a Long, Tedious Speech in Front of a Room Full of Girls You Have Crushes On when you die.”
Of course, they don’t say all that. They say “…or you’ll go to Zirluw when you die.” Demons have to memorize the names of at least 128 Planes of Escalating Annoyance and/or Aggravation from Mild to Severe before they’re considered “plane literate.” The Plane of Never Being Able to Remember Why You Walked Into a Room is on the low scale, (some of us live there already >cough<) The Plane of Really Bad Allergies But Every Time You Sneeze You Have Really Hot, Violent Diarrhea is on the higher end.
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Some how I knew there’d be those going “OMG! EWWW! WHINE!” about that 18 year old. :p 18 year old is considered adult and she’s a succubus on a different set of rules all together.
Not to mention, she may not want to have her life tied to an experienced 18 year old who may not have the energy to keep her alive, and as we’ve seen Tom with Dabbler, he hasn’t really come off as some cruel guy to be with.
He could cut Dabbler off right now and even she said, if that happened, she’d have at max, what was it, 7 days or death, to be with a new master to draw substance from?
“He could cut Dabbler off right now and even she said, if that happened, she’d have at max, what was it, 7 days or death, to be with a new master to draw substance from?”
After thinking about that possibility, I realized the Succubi Matriarchs probably have (a lot of) rules about when and how the plug can be pulled on a bond. If a succubus turns into a massively parallel serial killer, then it can probably pulled right away, but otherwise, the plugger probably has to give the pluggee time to find a new candidate to switch to. (/sorrynotsorry for the imagery)
I’m pretty sure that the Succubi Matriarchs’ rules do not include making a Master have to be okay with being stabbed in the leg with a Soul Eater Blade when they haven’t done anything wrong.
But he already did something wrong.
He was complaining about Dabbler not being obedient. The moment someone gets that attitude, a stabbing is absolutely required.
The rules would likely disagree with that sentiment.
However, I’m guessing Tom likes or doesn’t mind that side of Dabbler. He would however, like to have a version of Dabbler that’s not only less so, but by his side more often. So, a sister of Dabbler’s.
“The moment someone gets that attitude, a stabbing is absolutely required”
I’m assuming that you’re joking, because otherwise that sort of stance would be psychotic. :)
Take being an attorney. If the judge makes a ruling or a direction, and you keep disobeying that ruling (ie, CONTEMPT OF COURT), that judge is going to point out that you’re disobeying the court’s order, and fine you. And he or she can keep raising the fine. And if you keep doing it, you can get jailed for until you APOLOGIZE. Until you apologize, the judge can keep you in jail.
Under no circumstances when an attorney who is in contempt of court and told they are not obeying the court (ie, the JUDGE), have I ever seen the attorney respond by taking out a sword and stabbing the judge.
Plus I’m pretty sure the bailiff would shoot you if you tried. :)
In any case, responding to speech with violence means you (the one engaging in violence) are the one in the wrong, not the person speaking.
Demons,
heightened aggression, naturally regeneration, heightened durability, vital spots less vital than in humans.
Fighting is part of normal exchanges.
Heck if humans ever get over 60% the majority being supers I’d expect some areas having to be set aside or experience constant shifts to the landscape as super battles become everyday ways to settle even minor disputes.
*Marriage counseling in most Hells is renting out an arena for a few hours each weekend*
Also the reason Dabbler stabbed him was not because of obedience, but because Tom called her a puritan, which is apparently the worst thing you can ever say to a succubus. :)
Everyone knows that human females mature more rapidly than human males. Most males don’t begin to develop breasts until their late 40s. :)
*snort* :)
If Vegeta were a sucubus:
Re: “Forgetting when you walk through a doorway”…
I recommend a SciShow episode on YouTube that addresses this very subject…
… I’d rather not post a link here, to avoid “spam” accusations.
please my good sir, may i have some sauce?
source I assume…
https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=TcWUSuMpdso
just remove space and… we are all doomed!
BTW links are just fine here, the system will even detect URLs in the text and turn them into links.
Like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWUSuMpdso
I think the real takeaway here is that Thothogoth is apparently only 200 or so.
Well, he went to school with Dabbler, and she’s only 164 or something like that. (Can’t find the episode where she mentions her age, but it was something like that.
When it comes to Hell type planes *dimensions that exist for suffering*, looking across various religions and spiritual systems these worlds can get REALLY specific. to the point they don’t feel like something that should exist in a natural system.
When working on my own cosmology and pantheons ages ago this lead to the ideas of like’
so what determines which Hell or which part of certain Hells people go to? An algorithm of certain criteria *something* has determined are “sins”. and sets up a way to have the sapient beings of that world’s own eternal reincarnating souls keep track of them.
-Thus no Hell is permanent but a form of rehab or psychological reeducation to influence the subconscious to adjust behavior in the next life.
But then this leads to who created these Hells and why *ended up making my goddesses feel like giant advanced aliens and their reasoning for even setting these up in the first place a combination of altruism and selfishness*
-someday you’re souls will ascend beyond physical restraints, and we’d rather not have to deal with a bunch of new asshole gods floating about our playgrounds, so here’s a spiritual school system of rewards and punishments.
of course this also translates to what the environments are like in those Hells, and what kind of “soul bodies” the sapient life forms will have; first locked with just the memories of their last life otherwise this won’t make sense and pollute the lesson. and the body they get has to reflect what sort of punishment they will get. Ranging from some orb of consciousness that can’t eat despite always feeling hungry and thirsty, up to near replicas of their human body except add in features so they can suffer.
-really the soul bodies sound superhuman, regeneration *when it kicks in and how fast determined by degree of suffering desired and how long after damage stops, leave no scars all regenerated flesh is like brand new *also means zero habituation to the pain*, respawn nearby when too much damage happens at once, and of course what can knock them out, mental breakdown and serotonin limiters, and such that prevent any *outs* from the situation.
-also trying to imagine what things would feel like that should kill someone if they can’t die from them like drowning or being buried alive etc…
then add in what beings are put in charge of these *like managers* or if they could have inhabitants and life forms and human soul bodies treated as a renewable resource *like regenerating meat sticks* or the more surreal Hell realms and the soul spheres are drained of energy *making them feel hungry more again*, or souls trapped n doll bodies to be the playthings of demons and gods.
-add in some Disgaea influence on my part and this whole thing got weird going down from Architects of Hell to demon-gods, Overlords, demon lords, wild demons, and even humans trying to trick the system and gain immortality by creating their own version of the soul bodies once they learn about them and how Hell works,
Hello, yes. It’s me, the guy who said “Omg! Eeeew, whine!” earlier during the origins of succubi bit. Yeah, I’m here to do that again. I know, I only comment when I have something to bitch about. Sorry about that. I promise I wouldn’t be saying anything if I didn’t think it was important. I also promise to use paragraphs this time.
Anyway, yeah, no dog, that’s creepy. I know, I know, different cultures different species but the issue is that I really don’t see that much of a meaningful difference. Whenever we’ve seen succubi before, they’ve always acted exactly like regular people but magic. They’re not strange and unknowable, their desires and attitudes are easily recognizable and relatable. They’re a lot like us. I get that there are good narrative and meta-narrative reasons for that and it’s not a criticism but it means there’s the same kinds of lines as we humans have in some respects.
Now, I understand we don’t know much about Parfait yet. She might be hyper-competent in a similar vein as Dabbler. Maybe when she’s not squeeing over anime, she’s an equal to Tom, helping him run his empire, we don’t know yet, sure. Buuuuuut what we actually are being shown here isn’t that. What we’re being shown is “adorable”. The big eyes visually say a certain something. Personality-wise, the exuberance, the “look what I did!” desire for recognition and approval does not speak to any form of emotional maturity or equivalence in the relationship. She seems a lot like the kinda girl who might still be in high school.
When somebody turns 18, they become legal adults but that doesn’t make them impossible to exploit all of a sudden. I don’t know about the rest of you but I still had a lot of growing up to do at 18. If a 40 year old woman had started dating me at the time, those who knew me would have been justifiably skeeved out. And Parfait doesn’t seem “mature for her age” or any similar justification. She seems like she is in many ways, still a kid. And Tom, a much older man and owner of his own business has taken her as his “slave” (not actually slave but it’s still binding and a sex thing). And that’s creepy. It really is. Again, I’m not accusing Dave of pedophilia or anything, I just want to contest the idea that this sort of relationship isn’t creepy just because she’s 18. I leave you with this funny youtube video that came out recently. It’s related. Just… food for thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7M24KrqhBw
I don’t disagree. I think the main difference, for me, is that sex isn’t seen by succubi the same way as its seen by humans. For humans it’s intimate and can be deeply impactful, but Dabbler has established that it’s as casual to succubi as eating and drinking to live, and these contracts are more like jobs they do to maintain their health and magical wellbeing. You can be contractually beholden to a particular job while still always having the option to leave, but if you spend too long with no income, you can starve.
The impression I’m getting from Tom, Dabbler, and Parfait’s dynamic is more like Parfait is an excitable intern in a new job field. Parfait sought a partner/master who would be trustworthy (something she knows he is cuz he has a contract with her sister) and also experienced enough to teach her what she needs to know about how these sorts of contracts work and how that is maintained in the day-to-day. Presumably, someone with the magical power to sustain a succubus who was also on age with Parfait wouldn’t have much more of an idea what they were doing than she did. Theory is something she probably knows from Succubus School or whatever, but theory and practice are different. It could just be me wanting to put a good spin on things, but I’m getting more of an “experienced mentor” vibe from their dynamic, as opposed to a predatory one.
Not to say that you can’t be predated upon/taken advantage of in a career sense, but it doesn’t seem like Tom would be able to get away with that without Dabbler taking it out of his hide. Honestly, the choice to make a contract with Tom might have also been specifically because Dabbler would be in a position to better help and protect Parfait.
I dunno. Just my rambly thoughts on the matter.
My thought was, that Tom still deeply cares for Dabbler and took her halfsister in to protect her as part of the family.
If i remember correctly she doesnt even needs to have sex with him on regular basis as he can give her mana passively and she can get her tantric energy from his hordes and the younger demons.
They do need to have sex to maintain the contract but considering it seems to have been a significant amount of time before Dabbler needed to (and she might not have NEEDED to, honestly) the “regularity” of the required sexual maintenance is up in the air. But she did tell Max that if Max became her new master they would be required to have sex regularly.
Honestly that’s all a pretty reasonable way to look at it. You make a strong point that the biggest difference between their species and our own is the relationship to sex. I sort of assumed that there’s also a fair emotional aspect to a bond such as theirs akin to a relationship we may know but frankly your internship metaphor holds just as much water. I can get behind your entire explanation. I guess my only sticking point is that Dave didn’t provide an explanation like that as to why it’s not creepy, he just said “she’s 18 so it’s fine” and I wanted to contest that mentality which I feel is wrong. So that was mostly the basis of my ramble but your ramble was well-thought and put a spin on the comic I hadn’t thought of.
NO NO NO REASONABLE DISCOURSE ON THE INTERNET HAS HELL FROZEN OVER!?
Quick someone accuse someone of being like Hitler or the internet will not be able to handle all of this reasonableness!
Pander has arms and legs just like Hitler!
My legs are MUCH better than Hitler’s, as are my arms. Nice to look at, or so I’ve been told. At least with the legs.
Standard Internet protocol would be to demand you post proof, but a) we’re above that here and value you too much anyways, and b) it occurs to me that we would also be required to compare any evidence with pictures of Hitler’s legs. I don’t need that particular imagery in my brain or my search history.
I haven’t seen the Little Painters body but I’m fairly sure both my arms and legs are way superior to his.
We’re just 1 step away from Rule 34-ing Godwin’s Law. 0_o
I also think LexofGotham provided a fitting metaphor… but it makes me think we should instead be thinking about how much young employees are exploited by their employers, and that we hardly bat an eye at it, consider it either entirely appropriate, being either just the trials of youth or a good learning experience.
I think far too much of our concern about sexual exploitation is driven by our culture’s sexual hang-ups, and that we should be far more concerned about exploitation in general.
They don’t even have to be young to be exploited, just trusting the wrong employer can go bad real quick regardless of age
I agree with you that someone being 18 doesn’t automatically make it not creepy to have sex with them if you are significantly older than that. But I get how it would be a difficult thing to establish lore-wise when you have a universe with literal sex demons in it and said sex demons don’t just materialize as fully formed adults. If you literally require sex to live and 18 is the age where that starts really kicking in, with a limited amount of time before it could potentially become life threatening to go without, I imagine your perspective on the whole thing would be different. Adulthood for humans is nebulous at best, our brains stay in development for a very long time. But if we had a literal timer going “ding, you’re done baking, time to get some sex in you or you’ll die” we might not all have such uncomfortable feelings about it, y’know?
The part that _I_ never got was the “age appropriate” line on the tween succubus XXX pages back. Okay, she’s still a bit…uneducated regarding just how one can go about filling her *needs*, but the reality is that she has no illusions about having any kind of lasting relationship with human males. We did not know it then (but we do now), but she’s soon to develop a hole that *absolutely must* be filled. It would be abusive for her to get with almost anyone under the age of seventeen at that point, and realistically, many or even most eighteen year olds wouldn’t entirely be ready for the bang & go that is what succubi literally live for. That trio wasn’t actually out of her range, and the response of her mentor broke what we already knew about them, for the sake of keeping the artist clear of jail threats.
Now we have a pixie-cute “just turned eighteen” succubus. Fine. Keep the censors happy. But really?
It was the twentieth century in the developed world before anyone thought twice about a sixteen year old young woman getting married. Younger than that was not particularly rare, historically.
The fact that Dabbler is both very excited for her & fiercely protective makes it clear that there is nothing disturbing about the relationship within their society. Full stop.
Let’s just say when you put certain people on the topic of sex, especially underage sex, things has a tendency to go thermonuclear very quickly even with the appropriate “cooling rods” in place.
Heading off the sort of “discussion” that surrounds (for example) Michael “never charged in a court of law for pedophilia” Jackson is always a good thing to do in the current Internet we live in.
“Younger than that was not particularly rare, historically.”
Correct. There’s a line in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet where Juliet’s mother(!) says that it’s high time they find a man for Juliet, as many girls her age are already married and even mothers. Juliet is cannonically 14 in the play. (Romeo’s 18).
Fair points, too soon to tell though if she is genuinely like that, ADHD like Dabbler but leaning to the manic pixie girl trope, or playing it up to her advantage.
that said evidence suggests this is borderline acceptable even by demon standards given the “demon discussion” Dabbler is having with Tom right now.
“justifiably skeeved out” Don’t let someone else’s problem, become yours!
Mine would be the “double Jeopardy migraine of if some thing else hurts, so does your head.” Storm based ones are bad (atmosphere pressure) but at least you can predict weather.
I like younger women. But my current notion of “younger women” is somewhat older than my notion of “older women” when I first started fancying them.
I, too, thought that my view of “not so young that it’s icky” wasn’t the same as Dave’s. It’s not even the chronological age – Star Trek Voyager had a character who was, what, four years old, something like that, but she was clearly a mature adult. Parfait is not that.
The Plane I hate worst? The Plane of Sudden Killer Day-long Migraine for No Reason You Can Figure Out…
That’s, my life! I get them frequently!
I like how Tom is immediately supportive and proud of Parfait. It strongly indicates that he’s not nearly as evil as the whole “demon lord” thing implies. Perhaps Deus made a good decision in allying with him after all.
I see what you did there!
The deal with clothespins seems about as bad as breast ironing (that still goes on today in some places) and other horrible puritanical tortures.
Also actually had someone just a few days ago calling people pedos because they were complaining that Janet Pym should have not aged while in the Quantum Realm like her husband in the MCU and tossing out the ‘age is just a number’ line despite the fact she was a grown woman and his wife when that happened so their insanity with the pedo lines was ludicrous in the extreme.
Or the Chinese foot-binding
Yeah, Janet was old enough to have a daughter, and a doctorate (she was also a scientist, right?)
Also the extreme corset binding, squeezing a woman’s stomach and waist in until it looks like something from a demented cartoon instead of a real human being leading to all sorts of medical issues and early death (including the near impossibility of surviving pregnancy).
Marvel’s ‘updating’ of the characters from the comics seemed to default to making the women into scientists from their comic background so Janet was likely also a scientist instead of a wealthy 2nd generation with a love of and profitable ability to design clothing (she is canonically perhaps the one super-hero to have had the most different costumes of any hero or villain, constantly redesigning and trying out new costumes sometimes even in the same comic). But yes the insanity of people thinking Janet not aging and being with her husband was somehow being a pedophile was really strong in that nut. But apparently FB’s anti-harassment/bullying policy considers it totally acceptable to accuse someone of being a pedophile, child molester or declare that they must be on a sex offender registry. All things that can get an innocent person killed for being accused of.
There really needs to be many more Parfait appearances.
It’s nice having someone so enthusiastic and happy. Especially when there’s often so much the opposite.
I call dibs on Double stuff cookie night!
I really would not want to see Maxima’s face right now if she was present.
It’s hilarious though, to see Dabbler all “you better not hurt her!” and Tom “I PROMISE I’m not going to hurt her!” and, being demons and fighters, of course having some thrashing going on as part of the discussion.
Well, it probably would be good for her to see that Dabbler and Tom’s bond doesn’t discourage her from physically attacking him. Dabbler can take care of herself.
How is that any different to what Anvil and Mahogany Forklift did?
I’ve had a REALLY busy day. I cannot believe I’m the one to do this.
“YOUKNOWANIME?YOUAREINANIMENOW!HAVESOMEHUUGEANIMETITTIESANDABOOBSMASHYOUCANNOTAVOID”
Everyone else having an off day or something?
Whitespace is important. Otherwise, the penis mightier than the sword.
So that dress is held on with magic right? Or is just made of magic? Like it has disconnected wisps of cloth that conform to her movements. Magic right?
Just like Dabbles’ outfit is an illusion (remember the corset with the moving ticker-tape edging along the top?)
*The Plane of Never Being Able to Remember Why You Walked Into a Room
Fuck. I live here. Too many meds I take affect my head, I’ll forget what we talked about 30 seconds ago. It’s very frustrating. I need to stop getting older, or stop needing more meds.
My home is the Plane of Not Remembering What I Did 30 Seconds Ago.
Probably a bit of OCD but largely the fault of muscle memory. Things like applying a hand brake or locking a door, switching off a light or appliance. Things I have done so many times that my body just automatically does them without thought. Then my mind gets antsy about not being consulted about actions and makes me go back to make sure that I actually did things. Gets old real quick, stupid brain, stop being a dick.
Dave, they wear “shifts” or they wear “shirts”?
A shift, also known as a chemise or smock, is a kind of undergarment, much like a shirt.
Okay Dab’s little sister is cute… nice and cute.
I thought Sydney was straight?
She is, but succubi hypnotic boobs isn’t limited to their effect by gender or sexual preferences. Dabbler herself not only caught Sydney before now but she’s also mesmerized Arianna (ARCHON’s chief PR agent & lawyer), Harem a few times (she professes to be bi-sexual) only as far as we’ve seen first-hand in the comic.
It’s just a “thing” succubi can do when they’re old enough to attract that kind of attention…
Except, she chose to look down instead of into Parf’s eyes, which were closer and technically more in-her-face
To be fair, it’s a perfectly standard reflex to look at whatever has just unexpectedly bumped into you.
Dabbler caught the *entire crowd* present during the fight with Vehemence.
It is the power of the Hypno Boob. Straight, Gay, Bi… NO ONE CAN RESIST!!!
As it goes with the name Parfait, it’s used in anime & manga…usually referring to someone that has character depth on numerous levels.
Also, everyone likes Parfait. Have you ever met a person, you say, “Let’s get some parfait,” they say, “Hell no, I don’t like no parfait.”?
NO! YOU DENSE IRRITATING MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN! BYE BYE! SEE YA LATER!
(not really ;) )
https://youtu.be/-FtCTW2rVFM?t=85
Yeah, there are many people who already live on the Plane of the Here-After. For some reason, the older you get the more likely you are to live there as well.
+1 hypnoboob resistance is just not enough to matter…
And Parf didn’t even try to use the Hypno-boobs
Speaking of: how do you pronounce her real name (which is not ‘old lady’ sounding to me), is it “Puh-Raphael”? or “Para-fail”? or something else like ‘Bob’?
“Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky.”
I think if you’re looking at a potential partner for sex and thinking this, then it is already icky.
Just my take as an older man.
Which side of the scale of annoyance is the plane of, “Everytime You Remember Something You Forgot, You Forget A Related Topic Instead?”
How about the plane of “glasses teleport on the top of your head no matter where you put them” or “the bathroom is always 5 feet too far to make it” XD (old guy issues…)
“where people flog themselves for the amount of skin they expose bathing even though they wear shifts, and men wear penis clothespins from the age of 4. (Apparently it’s some psychotic anti-masturbation thing that some parents did in the ’40’s and ’50’s in the US.”
this sounds minor compared to many things i have studied throughout history, especially christians in medial times, from floggers with barbed ends, to under garments with metal spikes pressing into skin of genitals imitating the crown of thorns christ supposedly wore. there are also many types of bizarre body modifications that would make most people cringe into a fetal position if they thought about it. many here would seem tame and normal compared to reality of what people actually do to themselves and others in the name of both sin and pleasure.
Hmm! Another young succubus, but this one old enough to do the real business of succubussing… but too green to be very good at it. Sounds like a good comedy formula to me! :D
…I want to have Tamatha meet her too!
(Actually, I kind of just want to see Tamatha again! She’s hilarious! and SFW… mostly…)
Maybe for another year or so lol if she’s that cute at that age gawd help the students in a few years then! Tamatha is late in her development since she wasn’t exposed to her mother from the start but I’m sure she’ll reach Parfait’s level soon enough… ah to be 20 again…. LOL
Given that an artist chooses each bit of “trivial” items to include in a drawing, what do the three stars with gems on her horn represent? Simple bedazzling for personal vanity? Levels of skill tested & achieved? Hopefully not notches in the old bedpost–her horn wouldn’t be long enough for her traditional occupation or hobby.
And speaking of her horn, can she make it invisible on demand, “hiding by the veil” thoughts aside? Does that horn curve as it twists–will she be at risk of her horn eventually piercing her skull, as certain other horned critters may experience?
Will she eventually use it as a weapon, or as an “aid” to her fun-loving endeavors in back seats or boudoirs? Just exactly how magical is it?
When she’s 50 years old, will that thing be 4′ tall, so heavy she’ll be all bent over?
I bet I’ve not even touched the tip of the . . . horn berg’s possibilities.
Took me a few seconds to figure out the weirdness with her eyes was the reflection of Sydney’s glasses.
Did she not go to school?
We can see how Dab’s was able to beat Tom before he’s just a wuss with an enlargement spell and a loud voice I had a buddy like that: big, tall, ugly but mean? Nope I tried to teach him some self-defense moves and I felt like I was at the punching bag again no fire he just wanted to drink beer and complain about work lol,
Or he doesnt actually want to fight Dabbler so sandbags it.
That does seem more likely, he’s too nice a demon (as demons go) to fight back against her. It plays out that anime trope where the guy even when he can easily beat the girl up instead ends up beaten all to hell by her anytime the whim strikes her because he won’t fight back. Like Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho, his sister’s abuse left him unable to fight back against women even when he can easily win the fight.
I guess the “Plane of Annoyingly Extensive, But Not, Lethal Allergies to Most Foods, Sugar, Herbicides, and Other Common Things” is somewhere in the list. (I’m not quite there, as I can eat molluscs, crustaceans, seaweed, and mushrooms, and I can wear cotton or plastic. But… “build up a tolerance” meets “And Intolerant” often.)
(Yep. Needed to vent.)
No, dude. Her ‘master’ is at least 198 years old. That’s icky.
Seriously, 18 is “legal age” across the US, but it’s still super creepy for guys in their 40s+ to be ‘dating’ girls who they can’t even buy a drink for legally in any bar.
Maybe this is just me. I can find a young girl attractive, because I understand that youth is attractive. And I’m not immune to that. But the simple fact that I could not carry on a meaningful conversation with a woman that age would be a serious boner kill for me. The mental part of the attraction wouldn’t be there at all, and that would kill it for me.
Then why is the legal age not higher? Age difference shouldn’t mean anything if the Legal Age actually matters and you are fully cognizant of your own decisions at that age.
There is no single cutoff point at which you transition from a child to an adult, and never change again. There are just more phases, more transitions, more stages of maturity. Which some people never reach, or reach at a different pace.
So I’m not sure any single number is going to be universally correct for a legal age, or if it’s all that useful of a concept. Taking advantage of someone is wrong, no matter the relative ages, and so to say that at some point the legal system no longer has an interest in it seems suspect.
Because the legalities have to balance two competing concerns. On the one hand, there’s “diffusing the potential for inappropriate power dynamic due to age difference”. But on the other hand there’s the pragmatic “we don’t want to criminalise all those kids who will inevitably hook up with their classmates”.
There’s also an aspect of enforcement practicality in this, as with just about any age-barred system. A better criterion would almost certainly need to take into account the individual’s development and experience, but that would be impractical to administer even if it were possible to test reliably – and would still run into the subjectivity of where to draw the lines. Far easier to just pick an age, preferably one that’s already the threshold for other rights/responsibilities, since that can at least be measured objectively.
Tom is only 200? Dam, I would have thought the guy would be older than that.
interesting foreplay those two engage in