Re: What's So Bad About Child Love?

Trying my American best to determine whether your post is 100% irony or is all what you really believe, or a combination of the two. Obviously I'd vehemently disagree with you that children who desire to have sex with an adult are destined to become emotionally damaged by the choices they made. It's a matter of what has the greatest influence over your personal beliefs as you grow up. If you're raised by out and out bigots, chances are much greater you're going to grow up to believe many of the things they taught you, though there are ways to reject it.
If you're growing up with lots of television and parents who buy into the hype and attend churches which paint sex as something dirty and not to be discussed with children, then naturally your chances for growing up to view your voluntary sexual activity with an adult as something terrible and permanently damaging are far greater.
I do not follow nor agree with the logic which demands that to place the welfare of a child first, one must necessarily refrain from sexual activity with her, whether on moral grounds or practical grounds. It can indeed be the case for many children, but it does NOT stand up as a universal which applies to all children. The only argument, in my opinion, which applies to everyone involves the risk that it is nevertheless illegal. People like Dissident follow this route. It is not a moral position so much as an acknowledged legal restraint on the freedom for people of any age to have autonomy and final authority over their own body.
I will never stop saying it: When you voluntarily adhere to the ... of a society which universally promotes a mutually desired act as victimization, because of ignorance, lack of information, and fear of godly retribution, you are, in the long run, not protecting children at all. What you are actually doing is helping to ensure that the negative interpretation of the act continues on into future generations.
I realize my view on this is not always popular with some here, but I've never been here to win favor. I post here to tell the truth as I see it, no matter how popular, and I don't make assertions like this without having placed lots of time and thought into them first. Nobody will ever be able to accurately accuse me of not having the best interest of children at heart, though some will always try. My sexual desires and the sexual desires of child lovers in general, take a backseat to what I believe in my heart to be best for kids. It is not, in my opinion, in their best interest to be shackled by the possible effects of misinformation and deceit, which is exactly what universally victimizing kids who desire to have sex with adults amounts to.
Aside from love and caring, I am a firm believer that a child's free access to information untainted by cultural bias, and the freedom to make her own choices based upon that solid information, is the greatest ally she has in growing up strong and healthy emotionally. It is up to each of us to facilitate that as best we can and to make sure she knows the truth not only about sex, but about everything from politics to history to charity, to the various paths to find the meaning of life. It is our "moral duty" to have the wisdom to know if any particular child is likely to suffer emotionally from sex, and to refrain from it (morally speaking) when that risk is significant. It is NOT our duty, in my personal opinion, to simply bolster a dictate which is not only based in ignorance, but feeds the debilitating notion of victimhood via an act which was chosen by one's own free will.