My child molesting brother-in-law said this not so long ago at a family gathering, "It's stupid to get in trouble for having sex with a 14-year-old boy. I was 10 years old the first time I wanted to have sex. So, I know someone that's 14 definitely wants to have sex even if the person they're with is a couple of years older. You can't "molest" someone if they want it."
And, FYI...he's NOT allowed to be in my house. So, if we're hosting Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever, he's not invited. Of course, if he shows up at someone else's house I'll try and stay for a while and then come up with an excuse to leave.
That is just wrong. How is it not clear to that idiot: adults are not allowed to have sex with kids, period. Even if the kid wants it, it is not allowed, because kids lack good judgment and can be easily talked into it.
I am gay but I would never touch a child, or even a young adult. One time my partner (now husband) and I, when we were close to 40 years old, were hit on by a real nice looking small town kid who was a senior in high school. He was probably 17 or 18 at the time. I just smiled and treated him nice, but walked away without responding to his overtures, because it wouldn't have been right and he probably would have regretted it later. This is what it means to be an adult. You make the responsible choice, not the one that feeds your ego or passion (though I must admit I wasn't really attracted, because he was basically a child).
Another gay couple our age (we are all in our 50's now) who have adopted a number of sons, were "entertaining" one of their sons' friends who was 17 and the kid showed interest. They showed their son's friend gay porn and coaxed him into having sex with them on multiple occasions. A couple years later, the kid goes to the police and they were charged because they showed an underaged child pornography. Another year passed, and now the couple are facing charges because the kid says they forced him to have sex with them after he said no. What a mess! The local paper has run a series of stories on it. I'll never be friends with that couple again. I don't care if the kid is lying and he was all for it at the time. They should have known better. Now we all look bad.
Even straight kids don't need adults forcing them to learn about lurid sex and they don't need adults encouraging them to have sex with adults. If kids want to have sex with one another, then they should do so as long as both kids consent. We should be sure they know how to have safe sex (we don't need to be lurid to teach them the facts) and they need to know about STD's. They should also know the limits: that older kids shouldn't be encouraging younger kids to have sex with the older kids and that adults should definitely not be having sex with kids, whether the kid says he or she wants to, or not.
If school boards want to enable transgender youth to make their own choices about their gender then give those kids a single stall bathroom that males, females or transgender can use. It will be hard to force themselves on someone who hasn't chosen to be there with them if it is a single stall bathroom.
I myself don't understand the transgender thing. I enjoy my masculinity and can't imagine wanting to be effeminate. I even have a hard time with effeminate males and overly butch females. But if I have learned one thing, it is that I don't get to choose for those people any more than they get to choose what consenting adults I get to have sex with. If I want to be allowed to live my life as I want, I had best allow them their choice of what gender to live their lives as. In this scenario, my confusion is allowed, but condemnation and hate is not.
But condemnation and hate for inappropriately sexualizing the curriculum, for encouraging child sex with adults, for creating a situation where a transgender can take advantage sexually, or where someone can falsely accuse a transgender person of the same, those are all allowed and righteous.
This is my view from a political and social perspective some would call liberal, that I think is probably moderate, but sometimes I feel is much more conservative than many on the left who have taken leave of their senses.........yet much more liberal than many on the right who have taken leave of their senses too.
Ww.