Gay teens and sex

Just came across an interesting research about gay teens and sex.
This is sort of related to the whole issue of paedophilia, and the 'taboo' surrounding sexual abuse.

The basic argument of this survey is:

contrary to popular belief ( based on the feminist idea) that inter-generational sexual epxeriences can only be traumatic for the younger person, with homosexual/bisexual boys/teen that does not seem to be the case.

Instead of there being a perpetrator and vicitim (in sexual abuse, where one asserts a position of dominance over the submissive party),
with homo-bi boys/teens the exploration and discovery of their sexual identities may even be helped by their sexual experience with men older than them.

Why may this be the case? Because boys/men are more able to separate the emotional from the sexual part of the experience, with as many as 70% of the boys/teens saying the experience was positive or neutral.

Given the estimated 14 percent of college males and 27 percent of college females who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, one might welcome the finding that these youngsters were not impaired for life and can enjoy normal psychological adjustment. However, at the recommendation of the journal editors, the authors drew additional conclusions. Noting that the term "abuse" implies that harm is inflicted, the authors argued that classifying behavior as "abuse" merely because it is considered illegal or immoral, even in the absence of harm, is not scientifically valid. To so label it also conflates instances in which the sexual experience inflicts harm with those instances in which it does not, thereby complicating the task of determining what characteristics of the experience produce psychological harm. Moreover, they note, in many, and perhaps most, cases of sexual activity between an adult and a minor, there is no physical or emotional harm to the child.
(Source: PEDOPHILIA AND THE CULTURE WARS)

IMHO (In my humble opinion)
Sex is something intimate and should be so, based on utmost trust and mutual consent. That is the point of departure... and whether an experience is labeled "sex" or "abuse", that is for the parties involved to decide. But in deciding there must be a certain degree of knowledge and awareness of what is involved, and that degree should be balanced between the parties. Age, or whether someone is a 'teen' or 'man', is under these conditions irrelevant.

Of course, the American Congress was not too pleased about what it viewed as "public policy or legislative attempts to normalize adult-child sex or to lower the age of consent".
They must have been furious upon hearing the establishment of the NVD!

Provocative? No, but boys will be boys.


Rant alarm: heavy stuff!

My (humble) opinion?
I can't say whether the finds are true or not. I can only say from that sex in my personal experience was confusing at a young age (5? 6? possibly younger? Don't/can't recall).
I didn't find it positive or negative, perhaps because I didn't understand what it was and what it really meant. It was only later when I reached puberty that I started realising what I had undergone and forced to receive (not give, but always receive), and it was then that the real trauma started, and still continues.

The worst effect is the lingering effect of guilt...perhaps coming partly from the fact that it was all so physical and intimate, and yet somehow 'exciting', like a game. And it was a game, but one based on an unequal balance of power and authority, based on submission and defeat from the very start. This I could only know later on, and that was/is a terrible realisation that robs you of your own sense of esteem and humanity.