Debate Guide

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Debate Guide is a growing list of arguments and counter arguments for the sexual emancipation of minors and minor attracted adults.

It also functions as centre for advice, links and external debate resources pertaining to these issues and the age of consent.

General Advisory

Responding to Arguments

• Logical Fallacies and Intergenerational Sexuality
• Respond to Misdefinition and Debate Guide: Myths.
• Respond to Rhetoric
• Social Constructionism
• Other trends worth considering

Arguments: Assertive and Defensive

"Minor" Arguments

• Evolutionary Logic - Why CSA makes no sense in evolutionary terms.
• Reverse Sexualisation - Acknowledgement of sexuality in nude photography is revealing.
• Liberty-Empowerment - Empower young people with the freedom to learn.
• Cyclical Paternalism - Protecting children brings about the need to protect them more.
• Prior Experience - There is only one true way of gaining sexual experience.

• Against: Cognitive Ability - Some argue that sexual intimacy requires a level that minors have not yet reached.
• Against: Online Dangers - Argues against the idea of the internet being a dangerous place for minors.
• Against: The kids do not want it - Disputes the claim that minors' general apathy in calling for reform counts as an argument against.

"Adult" Arguments

• All child molesters are pedophiles

• Against: Example Assertive

"Minor-Attraction" Arguments

• Example Assertive

• Against: Pedophiles chose their condition
• Against: Pedophilia is unnatural

Peripheral Arguments

• The Professional Victim
• The nature of Human Attraction - Why humans have a capacity for diverse taste.
• The Hypocritical Establishment - Why concerns about child abuse may be disingenuous.
• Sexual Repression as a tool of the State
• Historical Nonadult-Adult sex
• Adverse effects of hysteria
• Self-Loathing Hatred
• Parenthood and Pedophilia
• SOR Problems - Argues against the Sex Offenders' Register.

• Against: All Good Parents Would Know - Some wrongly argue that only parents are qualified to make judgements.

Debate Resources

Research

A collection of scientific research and other demonstrative references on matters relevant to minor sexuality.

Links (Debate Guide)

Links that have some relevance to debating the issues contained within the guide.

Links (Fora)

Applicable forums and some examples of debates on the issues covered.

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