Why do you think sex is more complicated for children to understand, and more harmful to them, than any other behavior?
Here's what I don't understand from the anti contact point of view.
We allow kids to engage in risky behavior everyday. They play sports that could have life altering consequences if they got injured.
We minimize the risk by ensuring they use protective equipment, but the risk of serious injury or death is still there.
That fact alone negates the argument that they can't understand the physical risks involved with having sex. If they can understand that playing sports could lead to death, why can't they understand that sex could lead to death also? I'm not talking about from physical damage (though that is a possibility) but there's more of a risk of death from contracting a disease than from being penetrated. Besides that, a good majority of us aren't going to attempt to penetrate a child whose body isn't ready for that. Those that would aren't pedophiles, they are rapists.
So that leaves the psychological damage sex can cause. Yet we don't seem to think that breaking their neck in a sporting event and having to live the rest of their life paralyzed is just as harmful psychologically. Why not?
I submit that it all comes down to morals. That as a society we still see sex as something dirty, or that it's something that should only be done with a person we want to spend the rest of our lives with (even though over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce).
Your thoughts?