An excellent topic, Dino. I have to agree immensely. If society and all the people in it adopted a healthy, matter-of-fact view of sex, all of this nonsense wouldn't be a problem. Children exploring their sexuality pre-puberty makes perfect sense to me. I'm positive it's been the experience of men around the world of being aroused at a relatively young age and not knowing what the hell was going on. If we removed all these arbitrary taboos and were candid with the facts, children would be aware of how natural sex is, and would be in a much better frame of mind to learn about it, which would make the activity safer for everyone across the length of their lives.
Some people seem to think there's no point for children to have sex with one another, so why should they. This seems to exclude anybody from doing anything pleasurable at all. As other people have said, sex without the intent of offspring exists, and if we allow children to be aware of sex and its potential greatness and dangers, then society will benefit by being a healthier, more liberating place to be.
The idea of a single age of consent is also daft, as far as I can make out. I completely understand the reasoning, because there are paedophilic people in society - and this isn't to completely devalue them as people, merely to comment on the dangers they can cause - we need to protect children from their activities if, as Ambi points out, physical damage can result. Psychological damage is a bit harder to understand. Again, it seems to me as though the children's turmoil later on could be from seeing themselves as raped and abused, when in a utopian society, maybe this wouldn't be the case, and it would be normal and healthy as it was in Ancient Greece. Ergo perhaps it would be safer to adapt the law - people under 16 shouldn't be allowed to have sex with anyone of more than one year's age difference on either side, or something along those lines.
And why would we let children smoke and drink and take drugs at a young age? These are all activities which dramatically damage people's bodies with too few positive points to validate them, whereas sex, as has been repeatedly made clear, is fundamentally safe is performed with awareness.
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