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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross
Another age thread? Talk about a rash...
There's no "magic age" where one suddenly goes from being incompetent to being competent. People are allowed to become husbands and fathers at age 19, but some how a good dominant or master is totally fucked up?
We could of course debate the quality of someone as a mother/farther or husband/wife at that young age as well, but we lead to the same point- people are going to be doing what they do.
In the coming decades, people in their teens will be becoming exposed to bdsm and will be GROWING UP with it just like teens of the past grew up with drugs and breasts and condoms. They will be entering the active scene in droves.
We need to learn how to accept and help them and stop just saying they are clueless dorks or end up with a lot of youngsters with NO ONE to turn to but eachother- and I don't think we want that as a whole. We need to respect them for who they are and where they will go. THEY will be the ones teaching the world and eachother about kink in the next generation. The more we try and deny them basic respect, the more we turn them away from some good resources.
Cuz time will march on, and none of us will be around forever. We can either embrace the future and bridge the generation gap, or close ourselves off, go "underground" and bemoan the horrible state of the younger world.
I choose the former.