Really? It was common in Antiquity and the Middle Ages to have sex with seven-year-olds? The "young men" in Plato are adolescents, not children.
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> [WS:] It is not only widely spread but also socially
> accepted in many cultures (e.g. Islamic countries, not to
> mention the antiquity.) The concept of childhood as
> something "protected" is a social construct of modern
> Western culture and labor laws - but otherwise children have
> always been a fair game to be exploited for their labor and
> sexually.
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> Wojtek
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