The abuse of trust and crass objectification causes the most damage to children rather than simply sex. Along with that, many children are not encouraged to talk about their own sexuality with a trustworthy adult. They have no one talk to about their experience. That really says it all. To believe that children are capable of negotiating sexual relations with an adult is deluded thinking.
Adults can misplace trust as easily as children.
And we should act as authorities in questioning our own motives as well. Adam Bowers does not like sexual liberation, but without it pedophiles would never be a matter for open discussion or confrontation. Like it or not, freedom works. I was quite dismayed at an article which appeared in the Apr. 22 issue of The California Aggie. There is a misguided link made in the article with pedophilia to homosexuality which, at the very least to say, is offensive.