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Originally Posted by Angela  Well, that's your knowledge, but my knowledge is that I am very grateful to have been protected by the adults around me from being f*cked by an adult when I was a child. I could have handled it, you're right, but not as effectively as I would have liked either then or in retrospect. As I mentioned, even as a child I knew that there was something icky about men wanting to have sex with me, even though I didn't understand exactly what was the ick factor. The ick factor was natural, no societal influence. It was thin-slicing; it was my unconscious mind, with the resources it had at the time, protecting me. And I'm very glad that societal influence and caring grown-ups had my back.
If you, or any other adult, were to justify your having sex with a child by calling it a "natural" impulse, I would have no compunction at all about calling upon societal influence and groupthink to put your ass in jail and throw away the key.
I have no problem with you (by which I mean "one," not you personally) thinking it's natural, okay, or not wrong to have sex with children. You are (one is) perfectly free to use that perspective. And I'm perfectly fine with using my own personal power to either prevent that win/lose sex from happening, or to get the perpetrator of such an action locked up.
And I think you know what happens to that particular kind of perpetrator in jail! More natural urges getting indulged. I'll leave that to others to protect the grown-up recipients of those natural urges. |
I wasn't talking about adults having sex with children. I too am glad that that barrier is in place.
I'm talking about the idea that 18 is the age at which we are designed to have sex. Personally, I think it's more like 15 or 16 because that's typically when our bodies develop to maturity. And again, I don't mean 50 year olds having sex with 15 year olds either.
I'm talking people within the same age group.