Template:Debate Guide:Arguments about children and minors

People under the age of majority can be sexual...

• Against: Cognitive ability = consent - Some argue that true informed consent to voluntary sexual activity is a "special case".
• Against: Childhood innocence - Childhood innocence is not a state of asexuality that can be "stolen".
• Evolutionary logic - Why CSA makes no sense in evolutionary terms.
• Cyclical paternalism - Protecting children brings about the need to protect them more.
• Prior experience - There is only one true way of gaining sexual experience.

Sexually repressing children and minors does not benefit them...

• Against: Online dangers - The internet is generally not a dangerous place for minors.
• Sexual neglect - Neglect of a child's sexuality may be abusive.
• Reverse sexualisation - Popular acknowledgement of sexuality in nude photography is revealing.
• Liberty-empowerment - Empowering young people will benefit them.
• Turn of events - How the reporting and prosecution of sex can change the perspective of a youth.

Child advocacy is often illogical...

• Against: The kids do not want it - Legal minors must supposedly "embrace" or "consent to" law reforms.
• Against: Teen brain - Teen brain speculating (inferiority) is value laden, pseudoscientific propaganda.
• Against: Corresponding age attraction - Questions the assumption of a unique "childhood" sexual orientation.

From the encyclopedia...

• Youth are sexually persecuted through the legal system
• So-called child pornography and it's effects on minors.