When science evades the evidence...

No mechanism of this harm has ever been proposed in any testable, falsifiable form. Any pretense that science has spoken on this question, beyond the minimal statements found in Rind et al. (i.e., outcomes vary), is exceedingly dishonest. Virtually no serious science has ever been undertaken in this area. No serious scientist with good career prospects elsewhere would dare touch it. The Psychiatrist I saw got angry when I described how things unfolded in any detail, he did not want to know anything that may have suggested the youth initiated, and found himself opportunities to be in a position to be private, fully desirous.. When that happens, you just know something's wrong fundamentally. When outright rejection of any notion that a male youth under 18 or 16yo could ever want sex, and have a "Dr. of psychiatry" get upset that that could ever be entertained... well I just quit while I was ahead... I just saw no honesty at all in mental health. and that's why I'm not hesitant to deem them all quacks! along with their entire faculty of DSM 5 (raise your hand if you agree such n' such is a mental illness) let's have a vote on it.... You see my "gut feeling" is that it's cruel and very unusual to deny the sexuality of a male youth... Men know how horny they were at 11, 13, 15 years old... dick is always up... thoughts of intimacy and desires fill your day ( or at least a lot of the day...) but then society for god knows why, criminalizes any act of erotic pleasures with the most barbaric humiliation, and sentences !! See, my gut feeling is that it's that ideology that so wrong, and so illegal, and mentally abusive. My gut says these clowns of the court that have benefited by sentencing such normal behavior are violators of any decency. That's my "gut" on the subject.