Re: My answer
Submitted by Mark on October 12 1999 at 21:53:18
In reply to Re: My answer Submitted by Ben on October 12 1999 at 20:06:51
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Most boys who claim to be in consentual relationships are in them because of a need for a man in their life and the willingness to give up their own bodies in exchange for the love and companionship. This is probably true for some boys, but I haven't seen evidence that it is for most. If it is, it is a terrible shame. Affection for a boy that is conditional on him giving up his body is not love, and is obviously a terrible sin. But I do take at face value the claims of those men who say they really wanted the sex as boys and found it a good experience. I don't know that we have the right to invalidate their experience and understanding of it. If the evidence showed that boys really don't want sex, or that it harms them even if they do, then the decision against man-boy sex (i.e., for moral celibacy) would be very easy for me. The problem is that, just like homosexuality, sex between men and boys is sinful in the EXACT same way that homosexual sex is sinful. Well, I'm not convinced that homosexual sex is sinful. It may even be that an orientation other than heterosexuality is a 'perversion' in the pure sense of the word (since it is not exactly as God intended it). I have trouble seeing how other orientations are not what God intended when he created that variability (just like variability in physical and other psychological characteristics). I also have trouble seeing how they could be "good" if they are not what God intended. Mark |