Chauhan, Chetan, Goverment to consider allowing
consensual sex among children; Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 26, 2007
Prompted by a finding in a government study that a certain number of young children have sex or engage in sexual activity for experimenting,
the government is examining the possibility of exempting consensual sex between them from the purview of a criminal offence.
[...]
What has apparently prompted the ministry to consider the option is a finding where 26.8 per cent young adults recalled having sexual
experience during childhood and majority stating it was with friends and classmates and they were not in an abusive situation.
Dolezal, Curtis & Carballo-Dieguez, Childhood
sexual experiences and the perception of abuse among Latino men who have sex
with men; Journal
of Sex Research, August,
2002 - [External links]
These data show that not all childhood sexual experiences with older partners
are perceived as negative or are associated with damaging repercussions. This
finding is, of course, not presented to condone these practices. In fact, the
majority of the men who had such experiences were either forced or threatened or
were physically or emotionally hurt (65% reported at least one of these). There
were also indications that these experiences are associated with negative
outcomes in adulthood, in particular with alcohol use and sexual behavior. [...]
However, our findings, consistent with the modest effect sizes for correlates of
CSA reported by Rind et al. (1997, 1998), reflect that the negative consequences
of early sexual experiences are not always pervasive or severe (at least
regarding the limited measures available in this study), especially if the
experiences were perceived as consensual.
Male Sexuality
Mentoring - A Positive Model for Intimate Boy - Older Male
Relationships - Sent to Ipce - author, source &
date unknown.
Other
than a mentor as noted below, neither a boy's parents or other adults,
his peers – who are most likely no better informed than himself, nor
any formal sex education program, will suffice to adequately and
satisfactorily address a boy's desire and need to learn about his
sexuality.
Stanley, Jessica L, Bartholomew, Kim & Oram, Doug, Gay
and bisexual men's age-discrepant childhood sexual experiences;
Journal of Sex
Research, Nov,
2004 [External links]
In conclusion, the standard convention of defining age-based childhood sexual
abuse as uniformly negative, harmful, and coercive may not accurately represent
gay and bisexual men's sexual experiences. Combining perception-based CSA
experience with noncoercive, nonnegative, nonabusive experiences, as the
age-based definition does, presents a misleading picture of childhood sexual
abuse. An age-based CSA definition inflates prevalence rates of childhood sexual
abuse and inaccurately suggests that the maladjustment associated with
perception-based CSA experiences applies to all childhood age-discrepant sexual
encounters. In contrast, these results suggest that gay men with histories of
nonnegative, noncoercive childhood sexual experiences with older people are as
well adjusted as those without histories of age-discrepant childhood sexual
experiences. However, both definitions of CSA account for only a very small
proportion of the variance in adult adjustment problems. Contrary to popular
belief, negative outcomes do not inevitably follow from gay and bisexual men's
childhood age-discrepant sexual encounters.
Tatchell, Peter, I'm
14, I'm gay & I want a boyfriend -
Fourteen year old Lee tells Peter Tatchell about first sex, boyfriends, coming
out, paedophilia, and why an age of consent of 16 won't help under-age gays like
him.
Wilson, Dan, Judge
takes stand against sex offender registry; Waupaca case raises
underage-consent issue; Post-Crescent, May 4, 2006
A Waupaca County judge has ordered convicted sex offender Sam Roloff's name to
be added to the state's sex offender registry, but not
until nearly 100 years have passed.
Circuit Judge Philip Kirk said the list, which now numbers more than 18,000
people, is rendered useless when it includes people like Roloff who engaged in
consensual sex with underage parties.