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Originally Posted by DanaC
I'm not suggesting that the young lad who abused his little sister didn't need teaching those boundaries; nor am I saying it wasn't abuse.
... I'm not even suggesting that classifying these as assult is wrong: but I think it does show that there may be some basis for sean's claim that child sexuality is in itself deemed a problem, even if there is no 'abuse'. You don't need to agree with him. But I think it's unfair to take that as an indication of any lack of sincerity on his part.
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When he says
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Originally Posted by sean
Of course children deserve protection from sexual abuse, but all too often this 'protection' is simply a cipher for social control of their sexuality and of sexuality in general.
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it makes me question this
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Originally Posted by sean
As somebody who is attracted to children --and who has been conscious of and self-conscious about these feelings since well before puberty, and who has NEVER committed any kind of sexual offence--
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Because I wonder if he's merely quibbling over definitions, as in 'I've never abused anyone because what I did wasn't abuse, it was love.' Maybe his statement can be taken at face value, maybe it can't. But
his sexuality is what's in question, not that of the children. Making anything about the
children's sexuality gets perilously close to the concept that all children are being "teases," as was discussed earlier in the thread.