<p>They are weird by your standard, and you should judge it on your personal stand point alone.
I think we need to tell him that such fetishism is perfectly normal, because I don’t want him to suppress his desires and feel pain because what others say. </p>
<p>Young kids um.. are like any human beings, sexualized objects. But they should not be harmed BECAUSE of their status as mere sexualized objects. They are at the same time, flowers of our society, and relatively naive entities that were especially vulnerable to exploitation due to the low level of
intelligence and self awareness.</p>
<p>I think this was taken out of context, when replying to Liisa, I meant that I don’t think the guy is getting erections from 10 year olds. So Liisa, I don’t disagree with you. I also consider it kinda weird.</p>
<p>aaah ok Dr. Horse. Definitely misunderstood you.</p>
<p>pharmakeus, many things are -perfectly natural- that are taboo and according to the masses, perverted. And obviously I am judging by my “personal standpoint” that kids shouldn’t be “sexualized objects”. And the rest of what you said is common sense.</p>
<p>To be honest I’m not sure how I feel about statutory rape laws. Obviously I don’t want middle age men preying on preteen girls, but a lot of fifteen to seventeen year-old girls look pretty mature. </p>
<p>Some of my acquaintances sisters who have friended me on facebook are fifteen or sixteen but look as old as nineteen year-olds. I always feel slightly awkward when I accept their friend requests, like Chris Hansen is going to bust down my wall like the Hawaiian Punch guy. </p>
<p>Nature has its own law of consent: finishing puberty.*</p>
<p>*I know what the naturalistic fallacy is, just to preempt any retorts.</p>
<p>Your guys, people have eyes. We know what is attractive in American culture. This reminds me of how a lot of straight (especially adolescent) males claim to not know if another guy is attractive.
Girl to guy friend: “Do you think he’s hot?”
Guy’s response: “Uh, I don’t know. I don’t check out guys.”</p>
<p>Like I said, people know what is and isn’t attractive, whether or not they think it is sexually attractive.</p>
<p>Of course, people are allowed to acknowledge what is aesthetically pleasing! I’m a straight girl and I’m capable of judging, with no shame, boys and girls… from age 0 to 100. ;]</p>
<p>Regarding sexual attraction, my feelings are complicated. The idea of an old man sexually longing for a pre-pubescent (or post-pubescent but clearly not adult – that’s called ‘ephebophilia’) girl (or woman for boy, or man for boy, or woman for girl…) disconcerts me, but it’s more complex than that: after all, it’s not one’s choice whom he or she is attracted to. As long as he or she doesn’t act upon such desires by forcing a sexual act with someone too young to fight back or to protest, he or she isn’t committing any crime. So although I’d be grossed out, I don’t think that the person is doing anything wrong by any standards, nor is it his or her fault. But this train of thought leads me to wonder: am I being intolerant by being disgusted by such attraction? Am I as bad as, say, a homophobe? </p>
<p>Of course, the legal justification for age of consent (and keep in mind that 18 is just a line drawn by the law, as they had to draw it somewhere – by no means is there a clear distinction between 17 and 364 days and 18; you don’t magically become an adult the moment you turn 18) is the fact that, in a sexual act, young children are generally not capable of (a) fighting back, and in many cases, (b) knowing that taking part in a sexual act without their consent is not normal nor permissible (thus, the emphasis in sexual education classes on what constitutes molestation.) In short, young children lack the physical strength to repel a predator and sometimes the knowledge to protest. Perhaps this accounts for my aversion toward attraction to young children – because even if the would-be predator would never dream of acting on such desires, he or she is the type of person that would violate a weak, ignorant child.</p>
<p>i also dont think its wrong for someone of age under 18 to have sex with someone of sex over age 18. if a 16 yr old girl and 34 yr old are truly in love with each other, why is it bad for the two of them to have sex?</p>
<p>Again, the law has to draw the line somewhere; imagine the chaos and the violation that would take place were there no laws preventing people of any ages from having so-called “consensual” sex!</p>
<p>Why do they have to be in love to have sex? Just cuz society says so? Well guess what??? society also says that because of their ages, they shouldn’t be having sex in any case.</p>
<p>…i think that it’s ok if an 18+ is attracted to a girl who’s 16+ (MAYBE 15) but alyson sanchez is 10. Meaning she would be (roughly) in the 4th/5th grade. i can’t help but find that creepy. if i was a guy(which i’m not) who was attracted to a younger girl, i’d keep it to myself…it might come of wrong when spoken.</p>
Yes, but at certain ages, “consensual” becomes hard to define. If a man says to a two-year-old girl, “do you want to have sex with me?” and the toddler replies “yes,” because he used a charming tone of voice, she clearly did not agree to the sexual act with any knowledge of what she was getting herself into. Now, a case like this may seem clear-cut – as may an example concerning a 15-year-old girl who is madly in love with her 20-year-old boyfriend and fully knowledgeable of the risks of sexual intercourse and willing to take part in it – but there reaches a point where it gets hazy. How can we differentiate between an 11-year-old who really wants to have sex and one who agrees because she’s scared? Or even between a 9-year-old who knows all about sex and one who agrees because he or she has no idea what it even is? When we get down to the single-digits, it may seem obvious: no one that young is capable of making a fully conscious, informed decision as to whether or not he or she wants to have sex. Or are there rare exceptions? See, if there were no laws, there would be a blurry line spanning from age 9 to 20, because it varies so much on a case-to-case basis. That’s why we have to have a law that sets down the line. (And keep in mind, the age of consent in most states is 16 or so; 18 is just the national law. Other countries have even lower ones.) </p>
<p>Honestly, an underage-overage couple that really wants to is going to have sex despite what the laws say. They only have to worry about it if, say, the younger one’s parents get mad and try to arrest the older one. So they’d better keep it secret…</p>
<p>^ aite there solution found. keep it secret. if a 50 yr old british guy has sex with a 2 yr old, he wont get in trouble if no one finds out about it. i like the idea…</p>
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