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I was rendered quite aghast at the quote by the one doctor that, "[s]he's a human being and with that comes all the same rights as you or I have to experience normal development and sexual pleasure." She's never going to mature sufficiently to be able to *consent* to sex. She's never even going to develop sufficiently to be able to masturbate and experience pleasure that way. The only sexual pleasure one could possibly theorize she is going to experience is during some sort of sexual assault.
Complaining about the loss of her right to enjoy sexual pleasure is akin to complaining about the loss of her right to dance - it's just something that's never going to happen, EVER, thanks to her condition.
