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   From: we.care@usa.com   
      
   The question discussed is how far crossgenerational sexual   
   relations with or by minors could be considered to be a gay   
   rights issue. The author discusses the issue from the   
   perspective of general principles found in the case-law of the   
   European Court on Human Rights. These principles suggest that   
   the basic right to privacy should be interpreted as providing   
   comprehensive protection of the right of children and   
   adolescents to sexual self-determination, namely both the right   
   to effective protection from (unwanted) sex and abuse on the one   
   hand and the right to (wanted) sex on the other. The analysis is   
   based upon the findings of natural and social science as well as   
   an extensive international survey of national legal provisions   
   and it leads to the conclusion that consensual sexual relations   
   of and with adolescents over 14 (out of relations of authority)   
   should be qualified a gay rights issue; likewise (as the   
   exception to the rule) the possibility of filtering out cases   
   from prosecution where a contact/relation is proven (beyond   
   reasonable doubt) as consensual and harmless even though the   
   minor involved is under 14. The legalization of (objectively   
   consensual) sexual relations with persons under 14 as such,   
   however, should not be considered to be a gay rights issue.   
      
   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10482330   
       
      
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