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Grooming is a tactic where someone methodically builds a trusting relationship with a child or young adult, their family, and community to manipulate, coerce, or force the child or young adult to engage in sexual activities.
We didn’t get ANY indignation that anything like that had taken place here.
Simply knowing someone when they were younger and then finding them attractive years later doesn’t equal grooming.
This "lingering perception of the child" is only relevant if you were attracted to them as a child and that is feeding into your attraction to them as an adult.
If you weren't attracted to them as a child but are as an adult, there is nothing wrong and your reaction of being "creeped out" is irrational and unjustified.
I’m not even a fan of the ship or of such dynamic but people are making up bullshit and attacking the others violently and accusing them of disgusting bs when they don’t agree with their made up definitions.