Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[BrokenQuill92]

Psychological development is dependant upon the maturing biological development of the the brain so they could have a biologically sexually mature brain just not secondary sexual characteristics.

Consent is based upon a mature brain not body.

Ham has a good question that really addresses whether this is all psychological or if there's a biological reason that makes this an issue.

I'm sticking with my same response that I gave to Napo's example. It's obviously a very grey area. Exactly how delayed is the physical maturity. If the person is 35 and has the mind of a 35 year old but their body only matured to an average 14 year old then I'd say it's ok. But it greyer after that.

Obviously whatever an adult chooses to do with their own body is their own choice. But when you add other people in it becomes confusing. At some point of saying this 35 year old adult with a 35 year old mind and some illness that causes their physical growth to be stunted to a very young age you're going to come to a point when having sex with them could cause them physical harm. Which I think could cause psychological harm to both that person and whoever is having sex with them in the hypothetical. Whether or not it would be morally wrong is near impossible to say with any real conviction because it's not a real possibility. I wouldn't do it though. I wouldn't want to be responsible for hurting someone. And I think if your body never matured past puberty but your brain did and you're still saying you want to have sex...I might begin to doubt whether you're truly mentally capable of making these choices.

I can answer this question quite easily. My uncle used to live with us. I think I remember telling you his autism was rather hard to deal with. Anyway, he is a very tiny man. About 4'5" maybe 4'6" in dress shoes. And he's fat at 95lbs. Usually he doesn't weigh over 80. Now despite his oddities with autism and lack of height, Shawn has pulled in quite a few girlfriends over the years. We personally did think he had the mental awareness and maturity to consent. Now I'm not sure he ever actually had sex, but knowing the kinds of physical limitations people can face. There are ways to have sex without injury to your partner. Go watch some docs on sex and disability. It's really quite interesting.