Reply #26: I learned in a workshop...

[Chemical Bill]

that if the sex is not physically painful then the biggest psychological problems come from the child learning of society's judgment of the act. I was molested as a boy and never thought much of it because I tended to believe the non-judgmental people around me rather than the ones who screamed about how bad it was. It was much worse for me personally to have a violent father, and there wasn't as much of a societal discouragement of that at the time.

Anyway, I think society's dividing line of age 18 is arbitrary and capricious.

Bill