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I suspect it's not possible to have a punitive system and a stable power-hierarchy (whether it's adult-child, male-female, white-black, screw-con, pig-civilian, boss-worker) without traumatising and fucking-up the subordinate group to some degree. Because otherwise each member of the subordinate group will assert its needs or boundaries and the situation will equalise. If someone isn't in favour of children's liberation, then either they're deluded or they're in favour of child-abuse - end of story.

Hence: I agree there's a huge double standard, fucking kids is meant to scar them for life yet so many other kinds of trauma are legal and encouraged, like compulsory schooling, child-grabs, police brutality in schools, schools designed like prisons with CCTV etc, putting kids in isolation, beating (in some countries), force-feeding/forcing to eat things they find repulsive, forced exercise they find painful, banning from seeing friends or destroying/stealing property of sentimental value... etc etc. Also there's studies which show time-out does as much harm as beating, because kids interpret it as parental abandonment and thus life-threatening. At the moment this is covered-up by the focus on pedos and child-on-child aggression/bullying/etc, which both serves to excuse totalitarian control of children "for their own safety" and provides an excuse for why so many people grow up fucked-up (letting the system off the hook). Also age-of-consent is an arbitrary way to handle the problem and the current age is biologically speaking too high.

This said, I have huge worries with child-adult sex because children are so easy to manipulate (that's also a huge issue with compulsory schooling and a bunch of other stuff). Honestly... aside from a minority of rebel kids who were usually fucked-up early, it's possible to sweet-talk, trick or authoritative-tone kids to "consent" to just about anything. Like, believing in Santa Claus, heaven and hell, they mustn't swim in the lake cos there's a monster that will gobble them up etc etc. Also because there's a whole set of early worries in pre-pubescent children of a Kleinian type... fears of being penetrated and incorporating a bad object for example, which any actual sexual interaction will trigger. And finally, because with pedos one is usually dealing with projective object-substitutions in which the child is only imagined to enjoy, be sexual in the appropriate way, etc; and the impact on children is generally to encourage artificial persona-formation, an "adult" surface which later becomes a false secondary ego. So there's analogies with stuff like kids doing hard drugs or very dangerous activities, or fighting in wars.