>"Actually sexual contact can result in STIs/STDs. The risk is lower but still exists."
I'd be interested to read some studies, or evidence, that show what STDs touching, kissing and even cunnilingus can transmit.
But it strikes me that if touching and kissing can transmit STDs then such diseases are as likely to be transmitted to a child by a parent dressing a child, bathing him/her or just showing non-sexual affection as a paedophile sharing non-penetrative intimacy with him/her.
Another point is that of trying to remove all risk from a child's life - life can be risky, kids die in swimming pool accidents, when riding on bikes - do we stop them doing that? And I'm no doctor but it seems that most STDs are very treatable.
>"One can still become injured from enjoyable consentual sex. I can post studies of little girls who engaged in penetration with a man and received minor injuries. Would you still think penetration should continue if she has reoccurring injuries?"
I really can't imagine that a child who'd received injuries from penetration, and especially if those are reoccuring injuries, would want to engage in penetration. I just can't see her consenting to that.
And any adult who tried to insist that she engaged in her, forced her or whatever should be answerable to the law for that. Moreover penetration, if it DOES happen, should be something a child does to the man, not the man to the child, so the child is in full control of what happens - so it should never get to the point where the child is experiencing discomfort or pain.
Finally - though I'm still undecided on a rational leve, emotionally I feel that adults should not engage in penetration with prepubescents - there's so much ways of giving a child pleasure that don't involve penetration that I think it's a bad sign when a paedophile is overly preoccupied with fucking - it shows they are more concerned with their own needs than those of the child they purport to love.
This might sound pompous but I think that paedophiles should aspire to act ethically and unselfishly - and if that means 'no penetration' then so be it.
>"This is a problem that could single handedly stop child adult sex."
Does the existence of rape between men and women and men and men have any bearing on the legality and ethical status of normal loving relationships between adults?
would making teleiophilic love illegal increase or decrease the incidence of rape between adults?
>"If a 9 year old agreed to touching but the adult raped her she would have to prove in court that she was raped."
That is nothing new - children have to prove they are raped in court under the current system too.
Unfortunately things like rape happen under every legal system and every system of laws. The elimination of crime is an unacheivable ideal
"Allowing kids to consent would force them to have to handle the situation that now they don't have to worry about."
If there were a law that prevented adults penetrating prepubescents the child would not have to prove that they didn't consent.