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I think that societies evolve and devolve their morality over long periods of time. Currently children in the West are considered the Innocent. Consider the Romans during their Empire. Caligula had sex with animals in the Coloseum in front of the population of Rome. The Emperor Tiberius had specially trained young (5, 6 year old) boys who would swim underwater in his pleasure pools and nibble on his cock. The more refined brothels during the Renaissance had available children of either gender, prepubescent girls and castrated boys. The "pure" in those days were people who had dedicated themselves to service to God. If you nailed a nun, got under the frock of a monk, or scored yourself a Vestal Virgin you were a pervert. That being said, there were Popes who made their bastard children officials of the church, which means there was wide-spread awareness of the baser nature of people.
I don't know what the next "Innocent" group will be. Perhaps it will be the mentally deficient, the mad or the physically incapacitated. Some of these are already on the edge of acceptability, and there are some laws about having sex with people who are incapable of making decisions for themselves. Time will tell.
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