Pedophilia; I can't accept it.

[Sal]

The issue is that a child cannot be expected to understand the full consequences of his/her actions, including all the potential emotional baggage associated with having interecourse with older people at a young age. While it might be fun at the time, it can cause serious emotional trouble later on, a fact that the child can not be expected to understand, the older men however can be expected to understand this, and that is exactly why it must be illegal, and for very damn good reasons.

Why can't a child be expected to understand the full consequences of their actions, as separate from the inability of all people to know the entirety of that which would result by their actions?

How does a fun and rewarding experience translate to serious emotional trouble later on?

What are these very damn good reasons? I'd like to know.

The issue is that a child cannot be expected to understand the full consequences of his/her actions, including all the potential emotional baggage associated with having interecourse with older people at a young age. While it might be fun at the time, it can cause serious emotional trouble later on, a fact that the child can not be expected to understand, the older men however can be expected to understand this, and that is exactly why it must be illegal, and for very damn good reasons.

Why can't the child be expected to know things? (By the way, she probably wasn't a child when she was having sex - probably a teen) Why are there consequences to sex? Why is there emotional baggage tied to sex? Why can the older (and specifically men) be expected to understand things?

So far I don't see a reason why it should be illegal. Just a bunch of assertions that leave me with loose ends =/

I suppose you could teach a child what sex entailed before they reached puberty, and I mean more than just the motions of sex and sex ed.

I contend, though, that since they do not have a sexual nature, this would be nothing more than a curiosity that adults partake in, like drinking fine wine and beer and knocking each others brains out, preferably in a large bed.