Quest opened this issue on Mar 02, 2006 ยท 62 posts
PJF posted Fri, 03 March 2006 at 8:28 PM
"...no one will be forced into sexual activities against their will."
To make a technical but essential point:
With adults and sex the issue is clear - consent is either granted or not. That's the difference between legitimacy and abuse.
With children and sex, consent cannot ever be granted because it can never be informed consent. Even if a child desires sexual activity with an adult (and they sometimes do), it is still an act of abuse by an adult to exploit that desire. And, in my view, any such desire on the part of a child is never a mitigating circumstance on the guilt of an adult.
Adults are, by definition, responsible. Children are, by definition, not responsible.