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lovelylittlegirls asked:

Amy as a fellow youth rights advocate I am interested in your view on youth sexuality. I do not just mean teenagers either, I am also talking about prepubescent children. Do you think they can consent? If so would it be limited to "age-appropriate" sexual contact (ie no intercourse until puberty) If not, why not?

When it comes to writing laws in general, when you write a law, all you are doing is taking physical safety away from what you are writing a law to fight and giving societal safety to those who appose the action which you are writing a law about. This is especially true with the age of consent laws. By writing the age of consent laws, It is no longer physically safe to have sex with a minor if you are not a minor, and it is socially safe to dissaprove of pedophilia and sex between minors. The raping of a young person by an older person (commonly called pedophilia because with the age of consent laws, there isn’t much of a difference between the two, because you “cannot consent at that age”) is wrong, however the raping of any person is wrong, and by solely focusing on this type of rape is not only ageist, but lets other rapes fly under the radar. The raping of a minor by another minor is wrong, but we’ve already proven that we as a society don’t really care about that type of rape, because of the drinking age. When an adult human gets pregnant, what does the doctor usually say to that person, the doctor usually says “Congradulations”, Getting pregnant is supposed to be a good thing, and If nobody ever got pregnant, we wouldn’t be here today. Singleing out teenage pregnancy as bad is plain and simple ageism. And finally STDs, STDs are bad in general, however we should be treating them like actual diseases. How do we treat actual diseases? Well, lets take cancer for example. If someone gets cancer, we feel sorry for that person, and don’t blame the person for getting cancer. With STDs, we feel like they deserve that STD, and we blame them for getting that STD. With Cancer, We are so sorry for people that have cancer, that we want to end cancer, and we will do anything to find a cure. With STDs, we think that the people who got them deserve to have them because they are Amoral sluts. With the whole STD thing with the age of consent, we are pairing ageism with STDs in such a way that we are threatening the effort to find a cure for these diseases. We think that all adults are immune, when they aren’t, and we think that all moral people are immune, and they aren’t either. So to conlude, I don’t agree with the age of consent laws, but on the subject of can teenagers consent, I think that you can consent to sex if you can answer this handy little flyer I got this year in health class in such a way that you would get an A in your health education class.