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Originally Posted by dradeel
Of course... doesn't that go for everyone tho? I mean, there isn't only pedophiles that feel urges they cannot control. Everyone have the right for help. - But aye, in some countries pedophelia is illegal - just like homo sexuality have been illegal (became legal in '72 in norway I think). I'm not sure if pedophelia is illegal anymore tho. Pedophile persons are always reckoned to be mentally ill all together and just thrown inside the bars, without anyone to have a dialogue with them or a health service that can help them in need.
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Paedophilia and homosexuality shouldn't be compared, IMHO. Laws to illegalize homosexuality were based on some puritanical bullshit deeming both it and paedophilia as perverted. Homosexuality deals with two consenting adults, not so with paedophilia. As spyretto said, it comes down to what age should consent be recognized. You can't just lower it to appease paedophiles because the legal ramifications would be massive. By lowering the age of consent, the law would be implicating that the child is of able mind to do anything. If a child accidentally kills another person the child is tried as an adult for manslaughter, parents get no charges, labour laws (or lack of) that the children chimney sweepers of turn of the century England had can get re-enacted, etc. (All over-exagerations, but you get point.)
The law could have different ages for consent for sex, criminal charges, etc, but that would just make the law even more complicated than it already is. It isn't worth changing for a group of people that fetishize over children. It's the youth'ness, not the actual person, that they like. Children don't remain as children forever.
I completely agree with
nath on the porn issue. The rampant misogyny featured in most porn is appalling. Women are treated as just orifices for guys to fuck. Rarely do you ever see a woman come in any of them, instead the porn ends when the guy comes. And he usually comes on the face of the woman which is unbelieveably demeaning. If there ever is a porn that does feature a woman coming then it is treated as some freak show thing, usually when the woman ejaculates.
And that is just porn from the States, nothing compared to the misogyny in Hentai (Japanese animated porn).
All this can have an unbelievlabley bad affect on children if they are ever exposed to this, which they are. There was news breakout in the States that told of an "epidemic" of 13 year olds having blow job parties. Most people were more concerned with the fact that children were having sex at all, which is rather naive. My concern is the fact that boys would have girls blow them but nobody would go down on the girls. Girls weren't enjoying sex, nor were expecting to enjoy it.
Obviously these children were getting their sex education from porn. Not that I'm blaming the porn industry for this, since sex education falls under the domain of the American education system. Or at least it should, seeing as the States is one of the most sex-crazed countries in the world, it's fucking criminal that they withhold teaching children about sex to appease hypocritical Christian fundmentalists.