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Originally Posted by throwaway10
I guess what I'm asking for is either a way to come to terms with the sexual nature of children, or a way to love innocence without feeling negative emotions due to the fact that it is incredibly scarce and not the norm. I find innocence more beautiful than anything, and I care about preserving it more than anything;
By the way, although this sounds like a very Christian/Catholic belief, I am not particularly religious at all and was not raised in a religious family. Christian/Catholic teachings absolutely were not the cause of my feelings. .
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You should realize that babies are not brought by storks.
Even Christian people believe that ALL babies are delivered in pain and amidst blood. Jesus' conception was immaculate, but, according to the legend, he was birthed/delivered by a human woman, from her human womb and via her human birth canal a.k.a vagina, in pain, quite possibly accompanied by screaming, and amidst blood. So no, your feelings indeed have nothing to do with Christianity in general or Catholicism in particular. Your feelings seem to have something to do with a desire to "purify" (the early stage of) human existence, but human existence is a bit messy and a bit bloody and will not conform to your beliefs, and that is OK, and "35 different reasons spanning over the fields of psychology, reason, morality, studies, spirituality, culture, history, and physiology" are not going to change the "impure" nature of human existence.
It is quite possible that babies who are brought by storks do not develop any sexual feelings or attractions, and do not form attachments to people outside their family until puberty. But so far, babies have not been brought by storks, and even artificial insemination is sexual (requires a male orgasm and requires cells from both male and female), so sex acts continue to be the origin of all human existence... and that would continue to be the case until large-scale human cloning.