Reply #124: I'm Okay With a 14 Year Old Boy Having Consenual Sex With Whatever Woman He Wishes [View All]

Consensual sex implies that the 14 year old is not being pressured or coerced in any way.

I have a BIG problem with priests fondling (or more) ANY boy - gay or straight. Much more so than for any woman having sex with a boy. For two reasons:

1) Homosexuality still carries an extremely negative stigma in this country, and any boy, gay or straight, is bound to be ashamed of himself for engaging in an activity with a man who is UNDOUBTEDLY telling him that he must not let anyone know what he's done. This is simply not true of boys engaging in heterosexual sex: boys are LAUDED by their peers for having sex, and while an adult woman will no doubt swear the boy to secrecy, she will not genearally instill any shame in the boy for what he's done. It isn't SEX that fucks up boys and girls, it's our attitude ABOUT sex; it's the shame that girls and gay boys are made to feel about engaging in sex. Sex is a physical activity that rarely leaves any lasting physical damage. Any damage that results from consensual sex is purely mental, and entirely preventable.

2) Priest and other religious ilk are the biggest proponents of sex = sin in this fucking country. They take unnatural vows of celibacy, and pretend to be of a higher moral fiber than others, but are all too willing to abandon their moral standing if they can get a little action. Priests who prey on children (male or female, post or prepubescent) are twisted fucks who joined the priesthood in a futile attempt to escape whatever dark desires exist in them. They are incapable of having an honest, healthy sexual encounter with anyone.


Sex columnist Dan Savage likes to talk about the campfire rule: leaving less experienced sexual partners in better shape than you found them. If an adult is living by this rule, and if she/he is not coercing the child in any way, I have no problem with them having sex with a teenage. I do, however, think it's a dumb thing for them to do, given both the illegality of the act and our society's extremely immature view of sex.