| Interestingly enough, what constitutes pedophilia changes from culture to culture.
For thousands of years, when a girl started her period around 10 years of age, she was married off. Pedophilia?
Ancient roman men regularly had sex with boys, which was considered good for the development of the children. Pedophilia?
I would be very interested in seeing a computer simulation or something like that play out in which sex with minors was practiced commonly... it seems to me that the most damaging aspect of the whole situation is the social stigma. If it were common place and acceptable for one's parents or others to have sexual contact with a child throughout his or her life, the experience would probably rank up there with being forced to eat gross vegitables to most people. Of course that's hypothetical, and doesn't consider disease or pregnancy... and sex with children in our society, of course, is deeply damaging and I am IN NO WAY defending it. |