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The US is particularly good at this, completely freaking out the moment a child could see a naked breast or a penis. The horror!
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Yeah, because children should not be exposed to it at all. We shelter children from sex because they're too young to understand what sex is. Why shouldn't we shelter them? Explain to me why it should be okay for a 6 year-old to see a naked breast or penis.
Adults are mature enough mentally to see such graphic material. Children are not.
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There's also the basic notion that children don't HAVE a sexuality and are 100% unable to enjoy sex until they hit puberty, which is non-sense. And of course the most interesting one of all; children are unable to consent because they don't know what they are consenting to. The irony here being that a child doesn't know anything about sex because no-one ever bothers to tell them anything about it other than "it's for grown ups and it's dirty, stay away from it".
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It's not a notion, it's fact and basic common sense. What evidence do you have that could suggest otherwise?
Children still won’t fully know what sex is if we do tell them. They have to actually hit puberty to feel any sexual desire and to get a full comprehension of what sex is. We as adults don’t need sex explained to us, because it comes natural to us.
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Now, I'm not saying it should be legal to have sex with children. Too many people on the planet who would abuse such a thing. But the basic idea that society now has that children are completely unable to enjoy sex or consent to it is inaccurate at best and ideally requires a lot of research to confirm. Unfortunately the general consensus prevents this from happening anytime soon. No credible research institution is going to waste their reputation by handling something as controversial as a child's sexuality.
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What research? We know children have no sexuality, it's completely absurd. You need to hit puberty to have any sexual desires. Puberty is when you start reaching sexual maturity, not childhood. You can't gain some form of sexuality during childhood. Why should we research it anyway? So we can try to justify that it can be okay to have sex with children, as long as they can consent and know what it is? I'm not suggesting that's why you would want it researched, but that's the only motive i can see for such research. I can see child molesters trying to use any evidence that children have any form of sexuality to justify their actions.
There is nothing useful or insightful to be had from such research, because there is no such thing as child sexuality.
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If a child is touched sexually and enjoys it, is it still rape? If the child initiates the sexual touch, is that consent?
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What the hell are you trying to get at with this statement? Just because the child liked it, that does not make it okay. And yes, it is rape.