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children: the last frontier of sexual perversion
Detach your mind for a moment from any predefined notions of sexuality in children that you may have. Conceptualize with me this trend: In a sexually restricted society, we must have two classes of sexual extremes - the innocent and the perverted. In the past, the innocent ones have been defined as women and the perverted ones were those who refused to deny that women were capable of sexual inclinations. Now that we've learned that women are indeed sexual beings, the innocent label is now firmly fixed upon the children of the world. We've evolved, right?
The torch bearers of sexual perversion have moved from men in general, to homosexuals, to sadomasochists, and now to pedophiles. Society keeps finding a way to nail down a definable group of people who are the utmost scum when it comes to human morality. Ask most anyone today and they will tell you that pedophiles are the WORST of all sexual perverts.
As the above evolution has taken place, we have continuously cut out sections of society that we eventually come around to accepting. As less and less people are considered part of the innocent subsection, the selection of the perverts who are out to get them also shrinks. We have, currently, a very tidy definition of what is innocent and what is perverted. A child is innocent and lacks the ability to be sexual, right? All who would dare to insinuate otherwise or even go so far as to explore this boundary are the utmost of perverts and are the muck of society.
Given the trend of stripping away sexual boundaries toward total sexual awareness, how hard will the people grasp on to the little remaining idealized purity in the world? How long until sexuality is realized within children? Is there any more frontier to protect against the sexual predators whose perversion is to-be-named?
The real question I want to ask in all of this is, "Why so sacred?" If you can recognize the trend that I have just described, will you still hold tight to this holy purity that we have bestowed upon children? Or does what I've just said put it into perspective? Are you more willing to accept that children can be sexual? After knowing that women once were seen to be so pure that any sexual tendencies or reactions were medical defects? This antiquated view of women is the same lens we view children with today. Considering this, can you be so sure of yourself?
My goal is to cast doubt and to inspire questions. My fear is that one may only read the question without reading the context, thus believing that I am advocating or pardoning something. In order to know ourselves, we must be able to ask questions. This is what philosophy is for, is it not? Otherwise, the only good study is the study that confirms what we already think. How dreary.
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