Template:Debate Guide:Arguments about adult-minor relationships
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Age of Consent laws are a blunt instrument...
- Against: It's wrong because it's illegal - Homosexuality was once illegal.
- Problems with the Age of Consent - There are numerous flaws, listed on this page.
- Against: Legal pragmatism - It is wrongly argued that high Ages of Consent are "pragmatic".
- Against: There is no law that prohibits minors - Nonsensical argument claiming minors are already sexually emancipated.
Myths and bad meta-ethics plague discussions of expressed adult-minor sexuality...
- Against: All child molesters are pedophiles - This belief is demonstrably false.
- Against: "Stranger danger" or "It could be anyone" - Two conflicting "expert" opinions (both unfounded, abused to incite fear).
- Against: If we could only save one child - Negative utilitarianism is discredited and nonsensical meta-ethics.
- Against: Sexualisation and objectification - Sex/physical relationships needn't be all-consuming .
- Against: Sexual inexperience - When is supposedly the "best time" to gain life experience?
Levels of harm are exaggerated and the sources are completely misunderstood...
- Against: Power disparity/Stockholm Syndrome - Differences in power are not automatically inductive to abuse.
- Against: Profound and lifelong scarring - These characteristics are atypical and not intrinsic.
- Against: Doomed from the beginning - Will adult-minor relationships really die off as the youngster grows older?
- Against: Recidivism is highest among child sex offenders - Demonstrably false.
Other societies and species are points of interest...
- Nonhuman relatives - Other species' adult-juvenile sexuality.
- Historical nonadult-adult sex - Historical precedent for adult-minor sexual emancipation.
Many people also speak from direct experience...
- Our database of accounts - An anecdotal study, including useful infographics.