FieryOpal
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy Like MM, I'm trying to see the hardship and damages here. Legalities aside -- how has he been abused? Yep, my view is not the popular one, mainly because I feel that youngins should date a LOT, under supervision so they can learn what kind of partner they want to be and the kind of partner that they want to have. Furthermore, I hammered abstinence until marriage into my ums because I wanted to increase their odds of remaining married without the taint of forbidden fruit to give them an unrealistic basis of comparison... as Oral Roberts said about the poor, if they never had steak they won't miss it. @cloudboy, legalities aside, a minor cannot give consent. Nor can his parents or guardians by proxy override sexual consent without being culpable of pimping out their own child. An adult with diminished capacity cannot give consent, although it could be argued that two adults of comparable diminished capacity should be allowed to have sexual relations under special circumstances and with a support system in place. Consent is key. Whether physically violated or not, lack of full consent is a psychological violation. For anyone to not understand wherein lie the boundaries of consent is disturbing, to say the least, going beyond the creepy perverseness of a middle-aged sexual predator who would lust after a child in the first place (or any parent who would desire a sex partner the same age or in the same dating pool as their own son or daughter). @Exiled, I'm with you on protecting children from growing up before they're ready to deal with adult issues, adult responsibilities, and adult sexuality. Let them seek and find their own preferences and orientations in their own time and at their own pace. As for differences in sexual abuse based on gender, when a female abuses, she ordinarily does not actively penetrate the abused. In the extreme case of Sybill who had 16 multiple personalities, she had been violated allegedly with phallic objects by her own mentally disturbed mother, and it messed her up big time. In my view, sexual abuse by penetration is a greater violation in terms of sexual assault, whether it's male on female or male on male.
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