I feel like I ought to speak out on the issue of child pornography, and child abuse, though I am not completely sure what I should say.

It's an important issue, and it's not entirely negative (though I suspect it is at the heart of much violence, and quite a bit of society's structure).

So, where to start:

Like many Christian children, I "lost" my "virginity" at age 3. And, to my knowledge, in a fashion which was perfectly legal (just another kid, albeit an older one). Furthermore, my parents asked me to respect this guy and what he asked of me. (Through trickery, mostly, but nevertheless, When you are three, and you are in my situation, you test the boundaries lightly and then go with what you are told.)

So, I have been very interested in this subject, and not opposed to it.

Also, I believe I have a genetic high tolerance to pain. So my observations about my own experience might not be relevant to other people.

And for the most part, I had a idyllic upbringing - both of my parents had educational backgrounds, and did their best to make sure I was inquisitive and thought for myself. Not perfect, by any means, but what is?

That said, I was also subject to a fairly significant number of spankings, which in my opinion were worse than being "butt fucked" at three years old. And I also had various painful experiences just interacting with the world, which were even more painful than those spankings.

I like to try and keep things in proportion.

So... pedophilia - apparently it really angers some people.

My belief is that the people it most intensely angers are pedophiliacs, who are so scared that they will be revealed that they overreact, to hide their guilt.

More than that, I believe that pedophilia is embedded in the structure of our society. I see too much evidence of that to believe otherwise.

I am not going to go into everything I have observed, nor concluded, but I will make note of a couple issues:

(1) Children subject to rape tend to become very protective,

(2) Religion, lots of it, can be interpreted to support pedophilia, but also can be interpreted to say no such thing,

(3) Overpopulation, it's a thing, and we can observe what happens with various other species and their sexualty under crowded conditions,

(4) In my case, the emotional stress of dealing with the social aspects of sexuality as a child (from people "protecting me from sex") was much worse [in my opinion] than the physical aspects

My hunch is that if you want to understand society, war, suicide, and especially religious war, you need to understand pedophilia, and you need to understand that while it is sometimes quite negative it also has positive aspects. There's two sides to this coin, and you can't understand the one if you do not understand the other.

But it's a taboo subject, and you'll have a hell of a time getting accurate information.

People get very... protective... on this subject. And many people have died, and many more will die, because of strong feelings about children and sex.

People are insane.