[libertine]

First off, I had my first child at 14, so I am quite familiar with this topic on a personal level. Oh and for the record, I am 33 and female.

There so many more factors involved then mere legalities of a country that houses different types of people. There is no such thing as a one size fits all scenario, but people are entitled to their opinions of course. It just is not fact for everybody, only the individual who believes it.

Different Factors

1.Race//Culture/Ethnicity

2.Environment

3.Religion

4.Consensuality


Those four factors are key in this. Since, those determine how we see things, unless we are more strong-minded and do as we please. So saying everyone should abide by our rules or are way of thinking, is quite arrogant and self-righteous. Hell I found my first dirty mag in my parents bedroom at six, but already understood pleasure before then. As children, we actually learn a lot from playing which thus is experimenting. I like to think that as we get older, become adults, we develop a sort of amnesia when it comes to what we are ourselves got into at younger ages. I think it would be wise to keep that in mind when we come up with our 'ideals' of how things should be.

I do not condone molestation, which is nothing more than consistent rape through coercion. I believe if we focused more on those cases instead ones that are obviously consenual, we would cut a lot of the suffering time for those children in half! I was one of them too, so I have very unique opinion on this. I find it quite frustrating now and after it was over, that people always seem to be more interested in the relationships where there is no harm. So children like myself at the time, had to wait for assistance if any at all, because everyone found Little Mary falling in love with Bigger Jim, much more interesting.

What does all this have to do with the topic? A lot, since quite a few posts I read deal in regulating consensual adult/minor relations and not touching the fact that there should be more policies to help those minors who are dealing with the exact opposite.