Should pedophilia be legal?

[Paraselene]

There is no scientific evidence suggesting that sex before a certain age is intrinsically harmful.

I agree. This is certainly a controversial subject.

It does vary with each individual, though I doubt it is fair to punish some adults when some minors initiate and understand the act of consensual sex without it destroying them psychologically or emotionally.

That is not to say that pedophilia should be legal, either, because I do believe there should be an age limit. Pedophiles tend to target young preadolescent children, and that is ethically and morally wrong no matter one's views. What that age limit should be, I have not yet fully decided. It could reasonably be thirteen, but most reasonably it should be sixteen every where.

I know of many people who, when they were teenagers around thirteen and fourteen, engaged in consensual sex with adults over eighteen, and they turned out just fine. The idea that all teenagers cannot understand or consent to sex is a rather silly concept.