It really astounded me that, for someone who is not an anti, you buy into so much of their stereotypical rhetoric.

Let's take this point-by-point.

psychological harm is harder to prove than any other disease, but it is real.

Does this translate as, "Psychological harm may be hard to prove, but since it's real, it's wise to assume it happened unless we can prove that it didn't"?

adults understand relationships better. they have been exposed to higher education, have read books with insight into relationships, and explored their sexualities variously.

This depends on the individual adults in question. Many youths do research, explorations, and reading that adults prefer they do not do.

even in adults-only relationships, there are occassional freaks. in an adult-child relationship, the adult would easily overpower the child if s/he were one of the sadists you describe. adults know to dial 911, children are regarded as heros on the news if they do.

So, in other words...since the MAA in a relationship with a youth may be one of those occasional freaks...it's always in the best interest of the youth to assume the worst regarding their adult partner? *sigh* The "erring on the side of caution" excuse for oppression...again.

do you really think more than a very, very rare lucky relationship of pedophilia could ever completely work? loving, marital-type pedophilic relationships will never occur on a large-scale basis, ever, this generation or ten from now. the random pedophiles that chance favors, gods bless them, but they are far between.

"Never" is a loaded term, Plain. It's often used by people who have a stereotypical attitude about something...hence, wishful thinking on their part that a certain phenomena will "never" happen on a widescale basis, just because it doesn't seem that way from the current political vantage point. Most people in the pre-Civil War era didn't think slavery would ever end either. Go figure.

i'm not an anti, but the only pedophiles i'm in favor of are the glorious ones who somehow find complete, free fulfillment, and harm no one. us lessers will swell up in the shadows but probably keep getting stomped down.

If you buy into the "erring on the side of caution" excuse, and you assume that most MAA's would be bad for relationships with youths in their respective AOA...then you nevertheless buy into perhaps the greatest anti argument of them all, I'm sorry to say.

--Dissident