Meet the female pedophile - "Women have, I think, been able to disguise their abuse more cleverly than men".

All of your points presume that literally every person is the same. That is not the case.

Prepubescents need to be off-limits primarily because they are not sexually mature. Teenagers should not be entirely off-limits, but relationships between teens and adults should be investigated. Because while many people are not ready for sex in their teenage years, many are. Everyone is different.

Think about it. What do you do when you find out two ten-year-old children are having sex with one another? You put a stop to it, obviously, because they aren't biologically prepared for that sort of thing. But if it is two fifteen-year-olds, you don't put a stop to it, because they are biologically prepared for the act.

If a teenager has made a conscious decision to pursue sex, then they understand what they are doing and they should be able to choose their partner, so long as their partner is as biologically and mentally prepared as they are.

It's not very complicated, but it's certainly more complicated than you or the law make it out to be. People just shouldn't be allowed to have sex with children or the mentally impaired, for obvious reasons, and sexual relationships with any post-pubescent individuals up to the age of sixteen should only be pursued with proper discretion. If any adults fail in this regard and are found to have had sex with a teenager who is not mentally mature enough for sex, then they would be guilty of molestation.

I know this is a touchy subject, and it is discomforting to even imagine an adult having sex with say, a fourteen-year-old, but you have to remember that the age is not what we should be focusing on. We need to focus on the individual and what their biological and mental situation is.

I say all this as someone who was once a thirteen-year-old with sex on the mind and an almost exclusive attraction to adult women. Age of consent laws don't just fail the many adults who aren't actually guilty of any kind of abuse, they also fail teenagers who wish to pursue relationships with older individuals but are unable to do so.

Another majorly important thing is that sex education courses need to be properly delivered and on the cusp of puberty, but that's another issue for another time.

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