Stating that minors can consent to sexual relationships with adults promotes children’s sexual abuse
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- Finkelhor, D. (1979). What’s wrong with sex between adults and children? Ethics and the problem of sexual abuse. American journal of Orthopsychiatry, 49(4), 692-697. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1979.tb02654.x
- Joleby, M., Lunde, C., Landström, S., & Jonsson, L. S. (2021). Offender strategies for engaging children in online sexual activity. Child Abuse & Neglect, 120, 105214. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105214
- Weiss, K. (2002). Authority as coercion: When authority figures abuse their positions to perpetrate child sexual abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 11(1), 27-51. http://doi.org/10.1300/J070v11n01_02
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The statement that minors have the right to consent to sexual relationships with adults promotes children’s sexual abuse. In fact, this is one of the arguments that children’s sexual aggressors have used to justify their sexual abuses for decades. The strategies of children’s sexual offenders, identified as “grooming”, imply the emotional manipulation of children.
Evidence from the beginning of the study of CSA (Children Sexual Abuse) confirms that children cannot provide informed consent. Moreover, the legal framework protects them in front of adult people who want to justify their abuse under the pretext of minor consent, which is a hoax. According to Finkelhor (1979) the Children Sexual Abuse (CSA) act assumes that a child cannot provide full informed consent, since they lack true freedom to accept or decline participation. The own position of authority that an adult has in relation to a child is considered coercion (Weiss, 2002). CSA offenders know that, and usually use diverse grooming strategies to manipulate children and their adult environment (Joleby et al, 2021).
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After a debate, we seem to have reached a consensus regarding the initial statement, according to which, the argument is made that the notion that minors can consent to sexual relations directly promotes the abuse of children. While we do not believe that minors are completely alien to the concept of sexual relations and consent, we would like to clarify that this is correct within the context of people within a certain age group. This statement represents an inherent danger, however, when it is used to undermine the noticeable relationship dynamics that could arise in a relationship between a minor and an adult, especially due to the nature of these relationships, in which predators mainly use pressure and coercion in their conversations with minors, according to Joleby, M., Lunde, C., Landström, S., & Jonsson, L. S. (2021).
After a debate, we seem to have reached a consensus regarding the initial statement, according to which, the argument is made that the notion that minors can consent to sexual relations directly promotes the abuse of children. While we do not believe that minors are completely alien to the concept of sexual relations and consent, we would like to clarify that this is correct within the context of people within a certain age group. This statement represents an inherent danger, however, when it is used to undermine the noticeable relationship dynamics that could arise in a relationship between a minor and an adult, especially due to the nature of these relationships, in which predators mainly use pressure and coercion in their conversations with minors, according to Joleby, M., Lunde, C., Landström, S., & Jonsson, L. S. (2021).