Can vs. should

Unfortunately, I don't think the fact that children can experience sexual pleasure will change the mind of anyone who thinks they shouldn't. From their perspective, giving a child sexual pleasure is indoctrinating them into a world of adult vice, something that is highly inappropriate for someone of such a tender age. Even if you can convince this person that the child experiences sex as pleasure and not pain (which many believe it is for a child), it is still not "appropriate" for a child to feel good in such a manner.

Why not? Because (as it goes) sex is risky and dangerous and a child is not smart enough to understand those risks, mature enough to make good decisions about sex, or experienced enough to know what to expect. Maybe true in some cases (although unlike some other activities, having a trusted guardian in charge isn't enough), but there's only one way to learn, and no reason to delay that learning any longer than necessary. Imagine if you had to wait so many years until you had the mental capacity (that some board of legislators decides is required) to breathe, or smile, or play games, or make friends.

We make sex so complicated, but it's such a simple, instinctual thing. Maybe children are better able to understand sex than adults, who have been subjected to social brainwashing about what sex is supposed to mean, who you're supposed to have it with, how you're supposed to have it, and what you're supposed to feel afterward. What does it mean if someone is naturally inclined towards what man has labeled an unnatural act? It says to me that someone has made a mistake. God made me a pedophile, and man made pedophilia wrong. Who do you think is at fault?