GirlChat #362550
I've been reading precious little of the fewd you've been involved in, and what I've read has basicly been enough to tell me that there are hurt feelings involved, and issues that go back to before I joined this forum. This is the first time I've read one of your arguements.
You seem to take the view that a sexual relationship with a child would have a serious chance of leading to abuse. Why? I'm not asking why you feel sexual relationships would lead to abuse, since you've made your arguements clear enough on that front. What I'm asking is why other kinds of relationships between adults and children are safe, from your point of view. Like the post title said, why is sex so special? Every relationship I've ever known of has been subject to failures of character on the part of it's members at one time or another. We should expect no different with CLers and children. The difference is, children are not generally emotionally equipped to either understand or handle such failures of character on the part of an adult. It isn't the good times that would potentially harm children--it's the bad times: the moments of anger, jealousy, bitterness, errors of bad judgment by the adult. Why is this not a problem with a nonsexual relationship? This is an issue with any emotional entanglement, from a close friendship to a marriage. They all have their ups and downs. I'd like to understand your reasoning, Todd. |