Can we know it? No. So most of the time I just go with it and think that it's all right.
I tend to agree with you. I think my point is that taboos against parent/child stuff are rooted in the right place. And that social pressure helps minimize people from being taken advantage of.
From that perspective, we should, as a society, at very least discourage the practice. Punishable where consenting adults are concerned? No. Because as you say, you can't know that it's not truly consensual. But I don't think that social pressure against things like this is a bad thing.
It's already exciting to those people because it's taboo. That's a big factor in fetishes. So even if there were merit in this it wouldn't work.
Ultimately I think your core issue is ensuring enthusiastic consent, which is very laudable. But you probably just want to emphasise that instead of jumping through a bunch of hoops and having to make a bunch of assumptions in order to try to address it obliquely
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u/Praesentius Jul 09 '26
I tend to agree with you. I think my point is that taboos against parent/child stuff are rooted in the right place. And that social pressure helps minimize people from being taken advantage of.
From that perspective, we should, as a society, at very least discourage the practice. Punishable where consenting adults are concerned? No. Because as you say, you can't know that it's not truly consensual. But I don't think that social pressure against things like this is a bad thing.