DDC,
I thought about responding to your comment more thoroughly, but it is readily apparent that you are extremely ignorant of history. Not only do you seem to have no idea what I am referring to by “the advanced civilizations” of antiquity, but you lack the historic perspective to realize that an era which saw the massacre of over 200,000,000 people in political purges, concentration camps, political ideology-driven wars and such has no basis to criticize its forebears, no matter their moral failings.
I do not advocate sex outside of marriage in any permutation which is why I am morally opposed to most cases of adults having sex with teens. Consent does not factor into the morality of it, but morality itself is not always indicative of what should be legal sexual conduct either. Though, it may surprise you to know that I support the execution of anyone who has sex with a prepubescent minor on their first offense. In fact, I have repeatedly said it at PJM and on my blog that the only just punishment is execution.
As someone who was sexually assaulted as a child (I was 9), I have always found it offensive when people treat teenage girls who get used, not raped, but used, as though they are victims of childhood sexual assault or rape. They’re not. I look at the fact that my distant cousin, who married a famous civil war general at 14 and had a very happy, healthy marriage with him (he was 28 when they got married) as proof that the issue of sex between adults and children, and adults and teens are two separate issues. One is never morally permissible, the other is, within the realm of marriage.
