👏 Yes, “fiction affects reality.”

👏 But you are responsible for your own actions.

👏 Shifting blame for your actions from yourself onto a third party (fiction) is an abuser tactic to deny responsibility for causing harm.

👉 Thoughts and fiction do not reprogram your morals.

👉 Thoughts and fiction do not force you to act.

👉 Violent thoughts and fiction do not cause you to commit violent crimes.

👉 Sexual thoughts and fiction do not cause you to commit sexual crimes.

👉 Blaming sexual desire for sexual violence is rape culture.

👉 Blaming sexual attraction for sexual violence is the “she wouldn’t have been raped if she wasn’t dressed to provoke desire” argument.

👉 People are as capable of resisting sexual desire as they are at resisting violent desire.

👉 Violent fiction and violent thoughts don’t make you a predator or a criminal.

👉 Sexual fiction and sexual thoughts don’t make you a predator or criminal.

Source: xxharryosbornxx