The OP attempts to implicitly argue that sex with children is not harmful because a significant percentage of victims of pedophilia polled self-report that they don't feel that it was harmful. I think this is quite flawed and based on my own experience knowing people who were sexually abused as children I dispute it. I do think there are significant psychological traumas that occur when adults use children for sex, if for no other reason than that they are using them...the child isn't mature enough psychologically to be an equal partner in the interaction.
For this reason alone it should remain illegal. As to haggling over the cutoff age, that's fine, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere and it makes common sense to draw it so to protect the vast majority of children (as in, the 75% of females who responded that it was harmful) rather than the exceptions to the rule (the 25% who responded that it wasn't.)
For this reason alone it should remain illegal. As to haggling over the cutoff age, that's fine, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere and it makes common sense to draw it so to protect the vast majority of children (as in, the 75% of females who responded that it was harmful) rather than the exceptions to the rule (the 25% who responded that it wasn't.)
