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Thus far, all of the people who are going on about children having relations at a young age seem to be bringing up speculative points. "It COULD be better for them. It COULD make society a better place" how? How could it? How, in the world, would society be a better place if we allowed children to experiment sexually? And i still haven't been given any proof that society is against sex.
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It's not speculative, it's actually based on some very well founded knowledge. Human psychology gives us a lot to draw from, as well as history. As Max pointed out, sex in ancient Greece wasn't a big deal, and people did it all the time, men and women, boys and girls, young and old - homosexuality was just as normal as heterosexuality, and it is well known that ancient Greece was a very successful society. Had this nonchalant attitude toward sex been a bad thing, it would almost certainly have reflected on the success of the society. But the ancient Greeks didn't fall victim to STDs, or psychological problems.
You need to stop thinking about this from the perspective of someone who is used to sex being considered bad. Stop listening to what society has told you for a minute, and just imagine sex as being normal - yes you've still got the same health risks, but other than that, HOW is it bad? If sex doesn't screw with people mentally, and sexual abuse doesn't really happen any more because people can get sex whenever they want so there's no need to abuse or rape to get it, then why is it bad?
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It's also, in my opinion, pointless to bring up the animal agenda. Animals are a completely different specie to humans. We have a higher level of consciousness and are not driven by our primal instinct - animals, however, are.
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I wouldn't be so sure. We are still animals, and we still have primal instincts very much hardwired into us. Fight or flight, sex drive, flirting, and the way we react to stimuli, are all quite primitive. As a species we like to distance ourselves from the rest of the natural world, and arrogantly assume that we're somehow more advanced than they are, but it's really only our use of advanced tools and language that make us more advanced as a species, physically we're just as primal as the ape.
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Which brings me to another point - do we really want children having sex at such an early age? Not only will they lose respect for their virginity but they will lose respect for sex and love-making.
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That's speculation. It's not necesserily true that children will lose their respect for virginity or sex, and it's not necesserily true that it even matters if they do. Respecting virginity falls under the catagory of meaningless imposed values of society, as it is part of viewing sex as bad and impure. So if you do not consider sex to be bad, then virginity is not important and carries no meaning. Some people already don't respect sex and virginity anyway, so it's not like considering sex bad ever stopped those detirmined enough. But really I think it should be up to the individual what values he assigns to sex. Values should never be imposed, especially values that don't really make sense.
Also I agree with Max's point about it creating an easier environment to teach kids and people in general about sex. Sex is hard to teach to people because it's been made an embarressing, bad, controversial thing. However if it wasn't any of those things it would be much easier to teach people about the dangers and so on.
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That said, this happened in the 60s with everybody bounding around sexing each other
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That's a dubious myth at best.