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Originally Posted by swissmiss
That is actually a pretty interesting question. I'm pretty sure animals can't give consent. Should they be therefore deprived of human enjoyable sex partners? I am pretty sure, I'd enjoy a shot of heroin. Would it be wrong to give me one when I am blackout drunk? What if the shot didn't have any negative consequences at all?
Yeah, so why did you even answer? There are always more important battles to fight, but the question is one of impact. If you could end all animal cruelty by one sentence, you surely would do it, no? I mean you answered to this thread. You just wanted to prove to everybody that you don't want to **** your mother?
The consent part was in fact the only real problem I saw after 'deciding animals like sex'. I think we would see a huge (maybe incorrect of nature) 'humanifying' of animals as enjoying sex is not equal to always wanting it and we'd still want them to consent. To be honest I think animals are wired somewhat differently wrt consent and wanting it, in that context apparently only very few species have sex for pleasure.
I was also wondering if anyone in here would like to take a stab at when/if they expect pedophilia to be taken out of the mental disorder context ? I saw we have ganstaman in here but that was a while ago.
Ill kick it off and say that I'd say it probably SHOULD be (partially) taken out of that context. As we know pedophilia is a disorder within (regular) sexual preference, a reason stated for making it a disorder (something homosexuality was as well till not too long ago) is because it's causing harm on the child its being 'done' to. Pedophiles can also be aided by psychological support to contain their urges.
Now there is all sorts of wrongs here obviously, if you're a pedophile without being in danger of exercising your sexual preference do you still have a mental disorder ? Could we agree that part of the mental disorder that is brought upon the pedophile is simply due to influence from cultural environments ? There is way more but Im not going to name them all in this 'OP'. As seen in this thread pedophiles of all sorts are shamed by people of all sorts. Could we see a society where (non active) pedophiles are accepted and special services have been created for them (VR porn for instance) ? I realize its kind of a controversial topic but I figured the well regulated forum of politics (unchained) is probably the place to start this discussion in (if anywhere).
Last edited by Yakmelk; 07-23-2014 at 05:21 AM.