@Paradox I get that agency for consent is impossible to truly establish due to the phenomenological nature of the psyche, and therefore the best approximation that can be made in law is some kind of age limit (unless you want people to have to take a test for a SEX LOICENSE)

But the lengths that people will go to in order to deny the existence of "underage" or even childhood sexuality are unbelievable, especially since the psychic presence of these drives in even young children is so firmly established. It doesn't matter how uncomfortable it makes adults, children will try masturbating from a young age anyway, little boys will develop sexual fixations on their teenager babysitters, etc.

It's just funny. I remember being 12 years old and absolutely desperately tying to get 16 year old girls to let me touch their tits. I managed to get one at a summer camp to pull my face into her chest and I was popping off to the memory of it for MONTHS afterwards. Yet now that I'm an adult I'm supposed to, what, regard those memories with shame? Put them in a box and pretend nothing happened? Paint myself as psychologically abnormal simply because my sexuality woke up with my teenage hormones?

What a load of cowardly fucking bullshit! What a load of crap! Pull the veil back on the psyche and all kinds of uncomfortable repressed shit comes to light. And yet the "decent" thing is to do what? Ignore it? Fucking weak! Fucking stupid.