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We are already doing it and people are already asserting that sexual encounters with adults was not only NOT harmful but clearly beneficial for their social development.

I've heard those assertions, and I don't buy them.

I don't care much for comparisons between the "wrongness" of homosexuality and the "wrongness" of adult-child sex. I think that arguments in favour of adult-child sex are easily demolished on their own, and I think that if you cannot think of criteria for denouncing adult-child sex without appealing to some alleged "wrongness" of homosexuality then you've not thought things through.

I don't care much for comparisons between the "wrongness" of homosexuality and the "wrongness" of adult-child sex. I think that arguments in favour of adult-child sex are easily demolished on their own, and I think that if you cannot think of criteria for denouncing adult-child sex without appealing to some alleged "wrongness" of homosexuality then you've not thought things through.

I think it would be that obvious too - but apparently it's not. Of course the same thing was said of homosexuality not 20 or 30 years ago.

I think that arguments in favour of adult-child sex are easily demolished on their own.

But they're not. You've already noted some of them, even if you "don't buy them." Note that "demolition of arguments" requires you first to engage yourself in what amounts to a reasoned debate with pedophiles.

If some judge ruled solely on the basis of the arguments, you'd lose the general argument on the grounds of "informed consent," and also historical and cultural precedent. You would be reduced to arguing whether this or that child was capable of informed consent, and perhaps what protections must be afforded to children who are adjudged to be capable.

But of course, there's more to it than reasoned argument: it's wrong, and we both know it. Pedophiles are monsters who deserve to be severely punished.

Next we get to child pornography. Once again we're faced with the informed consent problem, and now must contend also with questions of "artistic merit;" whether it's really porn; and whether it's merely a "thought crime" (and thus supposedly unprosecutable) to be viewing and getting off on it.

But once again, we both know it's wrong -- for the same reason pedophilia is wrong: because it is wrong to view a child as an object of sexual desire.

appealing to some alleged "wrongness" of homosexuality

Homosexuality is a disordered desire. Period.

There are all manner of strata within the homosexual "lifestyle" that vary in their destruction of the person, the relative scale of perversion of the practices or the objectification of his sexual targets.

The penis is not ordered to the anus. Homosexual penetration may well fulfill a person's physical desire for penetration by and/or domination of a same-sex gratification but it has absolutely nothing to do with human sexuality which has as its defining characteristics the procreative and unitive -- male and female -- aspects.