Anything even slightly maybe arguably approaching being able to be construed by bad faith actors as pedophilia is the biggest taboo in American culture at this point, period.

Bigger than murder or being just a felon broadly. Bigger than racism, bigger than Anti-Semitism, bigger than nazism, bigger than picking your nose and smearing your boogsr on someone in public, bigger than homelessness, bigger than wife beating, bigger than communism, slightly bigger even than being a rapist of adults or incel, the 2nd & 3rd biggest taboos respectively (even “unjustified” murderers come in at like number 4)

It's a taboo to signal you're a good person to “both sides” of NPCs (the “right” & the “left”).

Basically it's the one thing where EVERYONE has to TOTALLY publicly signal “they all deserve to die” or else they will be publicly cancelled by virtually everyone on their own side no matter WHAT side they're on (unless you're literally the most powerful humans in the history of the planet like Epstein's friends)

I don't watch porn and prefer wide hips and adult bodies, but obviously 14 year olds can look 22. Yet we’re all required to pretend that's not true.

I am not attracted to minors & don't endorse acting on these desires but the taboo deliberately stifles rational discussion.

I never valued the innocence of children. I am 21 myself and “the innocence of children” was always used to ban me from doing things I wanted to do. I ended up doing them anyway of course, but by all accounts I was excessively sheltered & the taboo nade my life harder.

I was never allowed to “be a kid” at any point in my life. My parents even told me at age 3 that Santa Claus was fake and I was a total social outcast who was the laughingstock even of the outcasts due to my total refusal literally my entire childhood to conform to ANY social rule I did not fully understand the purpose of and morally believe in. Ofc I have Asperger's Syndrome but was always bleeding heart empathetic towards the weird and bullied kids. I felt I didn't do anything wrong therefore it was wrong for my parents and other kids to punish me for doing nothing immoral, and felt the same strong sense of justice for ALL who were punished for not doing things morally wrong.

And morality was only the morality I fully understand with my own brain, otherwise I disregarded it. I did not trust anybody's moral beliefs or thought processes for the most part yet was simultaneously highly sensitive and gullible and always underestimated how evil/truly selfish everyone around me could be.

I never really developed with other kids. I just talked about philosophy, theology, and politics with adults at age 12 while drawing maps.

I was only really ever interested in those significantly older or younger than me. My peers pretty much all bored me to death. They didn't treat me well, and apparently I was useless to them as well.

I never really grew out of any of this. I am 21.

I have no children now, but I intend to have them.

I always viewed taboos on what is “sacred” as essentially restrictive/authoritarian puritanism, always valuing total and utter honesty at all times and viewing anyone who ever wanted to shut that down as anti free speech/the bad guys.

Rather, what matters is logic & reason. Emotion & the amygdala get in the way of that.

I never viewed childhood, or anything really, as particularly “sacred” nor “innocent”. In fact I knew firsthand just how brutal, cruel, evil, and non-innocent children could be. All I remember was 10 year olds making “pervy jokes” and finding it cool or whatever.

In many ways 20 somethings these days are far more innocent that prepubescents, actually.

So “the innocence and sacredness of children/childhood” was never something I had an emotional attachment to, nor is it something I can think of a good logical reason why it should matter, especially enough to sacrifice a lot of social resources to “hunt down” the “violators” of.

If anything free speech was good in part because it broke down these bubbles. If children are going to be exposed sooner or later, well, better to rip the band-aid off early, I reasoned.

Anyway you can probably guess my opinions on this topic based on what I said.