I am unclear as to what is being defined as sex. It sounds like from many of the posts this is meant to only include intercorse? I think that was our ex-presidents defintion. Sex and sexuality includes much more then that. I have a question about that then. If any of you are parents, what would you say to your 9 or 10 or 11 year old son or daughter if they revealed to you that he/she played touching games with a friend who he/she had a sleep over with. Isn't this rather common?
Would you tell her that this is wrong and she had to wait until she was 15 or 16? Or would you say this is natural and seek to give him/her a more comfortable feeling about the curiousity? In our culture, we keep expanding the age at which a young person may have full rights to their sexuality. Has this worked?
Sex between younger and older people is wrong for a variety of reasons, but thinking that sexuality starts at 15 or 16 or waits until 18 to be expressed is just not true. Many teenagers start expressing their sexuality before that age, with others around their same age. Maybe not intercorse, but certainly with other activities. Should they be told this is wrong and they must wait?