JackM678 wrote:I've known a few different people who were molested or taken advantage of sexually when they were kids, yet I still haven't run into one that claimed that they enjoyed the experience of it, or that it was adults making a big deal out of it that traumatized them.
I'm not really surprised you think your ignorance constitutes an argument. People have reported having sex as kids and only later "realizing" that they were exploited. They've reported positive or neutral feelings about the experience, operated under the premise that they consented, then explained how after being told how horrible and wrong having sex with a child is, they started to feel ashamed and damaged. Stories like that are on this messageboard. You don't even need to head for a separate site.
Again, you aren't helping me or anyone else choose not to molest kids by telling outright lies about what is involved. If I took what you're saying as gospel, I'd think to myself, "okay, so they'll obviously be broken and traumatized from day one, so if I had sex with them and they were fine the next day, I'm in the clear, and haven't contributed to any damage." And I'd be wrong. Because I'd have painted a bullseye on them even if not a damn thing I did to them was actually harmful in and of itself.
JackM678 wrote:If it was my child, and he claimed to have been molested and enjoyed some of it, I wouldn't call him a liar, or try to convince him that he wrong about his feelings, but I still would want the offender put in prison.
What message do you think it sends to your son that you want his lover imprisoned? Do you think he won't get the idea that you think he's wrong about his feelings? Do you think he'd feel like his feelings were being respected when he told you he wasn't abused and you're pulling the force of the State to have his lover treated like an abuser?
It isn't just the words you explicitly say that send these damaging messages. How do you not realize this?
JackM678 wrote:Even the founders of Virtuous Pedophiles state that the kind of justification you're trying to do should be greeted very skeptically, as children cannot give consent to sex.
Why are they an authority I should care about any more than you are? No, seriously, why do you think invoking them would make me stop and reexamine my position?
We agree on a handful of political points, the main one being that I shouldn't be gunned down in the streets for my ######6 thoughts. But really, even on that point, I find them to accommodating for my taste.
JackM678 wrote:I think what you're confusing is a child's desire and love for physical and emotional affection for their desire for sex.
No. I'm not.
JackM678 wrote:I was a babysitter for an 8 year old boy, and he was constantly wanting hugs, kisses, physical attention such as snuggling, etc. However, I didn't once mistake that for him wanting me to touch his private area or penetrate into him.
Did he start masturbating himself while rubbing against you? That happens, you know. It's a fairly common embarrassment for new parents who aren't expecting it. Who buy into the myth that magically the genitals only start sending pleasure signals once you hit puberty.
JackM678 wrote:I think some kids may enjoy the physical affection type of experience, but not actually enjoy the sexual aspect of it.
So you were lying earlier when you claimed you'd never encountered anyone who'd reported enjoying the experience. Or you're talking out of your ass here in this section. Which is it?
JackM678 wrote:When I was a kid, I still had some of my fetishes and fantasies, but those didn't become sexually arousing until I reached puberty.
Do you know what sexual arousal is? Can you define it? If you're going by the physiological responses, require ejaculation, etc. then you're again baking your conclusion into your starting assumptions. If you're actually making the ridiculous claim that the nerve endings in your genitals don't feel good when stimulated until puberty, you should really look up those ultrasounds of fetuses masturbating. If you're claiming that it feels good, but it isn't "sexual" then ######6 define "sexual" in a way that makes it an actual word that communicates information.
JackM678 wrote:If an adult had engaged with me in some of those, I might have found it somewhat satisfying, but when it started to turn into me being sexually taken advantage of, it likely would have freaked me out.
I can play the hypothetical game too. And my #######4 hypothetical is exactly as valid as yours, so they'd cancel one another out.
JackM678 wrote:I think you also confused some of my thoughts on Jerry Sandusky. I said if they were adults, it still would have been seduction. The fact that they were children and easier to manipulate makes it even less okay what he did than if it would have been adults, not that it would have been okay if he had done it to adults.
So if it wouldn't have been okay to do this to adults, why do the ages of the kids involved matter? Why is this your example, instead of one where it actually would have been okay to do to adults?
Because you're fully aware that if you give such an example, you won't be able to point to what was actually wrong that is unique to kids in the first place except for the social condemnation and victimization that I've already pointed out is at the root of the problem. But feel free to prove me wrong.
JackM678 wrote:You're also confused on what agreement is. Agreeing to something verbally is not the same as agreeing to it mentally. I can't imagine one time where a child would have had sex with an adult if it wasn't the adult that initiated the act. If a child says yes, that doesn't mean that is what they wanted to happen.
So you think your lack of imagination qualifies as an argument? That's okay, I can imagine that just fine. In fact, I do so quite frequently.
JackM678 wrote:I think what you're doing is making a victim out of child molesters and making people who try to stop it the victims.
You are the victimizers. The child molesters are reckless, criminally so, but when the child molesters aren't doing anything that wouldn't be okay to do with an adult, it's you who are doing the actual damage. Reckless people who endanger children's wellbeing are contemptable, but they're far less contemptible than the ones actually causing the damage.
Let me give you an analogy. You're holding a gun to a kid's head, and you tell me you'll shoot if I say one word. I reply by saying "###$ you!" You're an asshole trying to silence me, and a child murderer, but I still bear some blame for that kid's death because I antagonized a child murdering asshole while he had a gun to a kid's head.
So yeah, I'm not touching kids. Because you've got your metaphorical gun to the kid's head. I'm also trying to get that metaphorical gun away from you.