What is my position on pedophilia?

But if there was any doubt, yes, I am defending that children can have sex with each other. Not only adolescents, but also children of earlier ages -- whenever they want to. It is a scandal in itself that the subject of child sexuality cannot be discussed without people raising the specter of pedophilia. That is the direct result of the witchhunts I have described in the article, where so-called therapists induced false memories in patients and horrible stories of mass abuse were produced -- child sexual abuse was portrayed as being literally everywhere, and celebrities proudly described themselves as "survivors" of sexual abuse.

As a result, not only were many harmless, affectionate adult/child situations (parents hugging, kissing, tickling their children, for example) stigmatized but also child sexuality as a subject in itself. Children and even teenagers are mostly portrayed as asexual, and if it's obvious that they are not, they are required to "control" their sexuality. The problem goes so far that in some cases of gay teenagers put in therapy because of their sexuality, local youth gay centers didn't offer to help because they feared to be seen as pedophile-defenders. These people have a hard enough time fighting for gay rights as it is, so they avoid tackling another "hot button" issue. Unfortunately, that means that teenagers like Lyn Duff, who was sent to a therapy center in Utah for being a lesbian, are hardly offered any help. (Do a Google search on her name to learn more about her case.)

What is my position on pedophilia, then? It's really simple. If the child doesn't want it, is neutral or ambigious, it's inappropriate. This excludes most adult/child sexual contact, but only little child/child contact.

source: 'Defending the Right to Pleasure' by Erik Möller (German freelance journalist and former Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation); www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2001/3/30/4410/84525/72; kuru5hin.org; 28 April 2010