However, that would be applying in a traditional sense of what "rape" actually is. I would like to add that if it was legal to have an affair with a minor, and if she consented (even if legally they aren't 'capable' of consenting, so it would be statutory rape) then I was be all for proceeding.

I mean, personally I believe that if you're old enough to be responsible for a crime you commit, then you are able to consent, which I'd say (if legal) I'd do it with a 12 year old. Personally, when I was 12 I was extremely mature for my age, and due to puberty causing me to be extremely horny, I'd want to be able to have sex with anyone I wanted to (as long as they started puberty or older). Still, I know my opinion varies widely from those of others.

In case that hasn't convinced you to think that I'm a scum of the earth, if I were in Thailand and if I were offered to have sex with a child prostitute between 4 - 12, I would gladly do the business transaction. In fact, I've had a fantasy about it as well... about how I acquire said child from the clutches of the pimp renting her out, making sure she is well fed and taken care of, yet I would still obviously have sex with her as I saw fit. More like, rescuing from something considered 'evil' and putting her in a 'less evil' environment. So, I suppose you could call me a potential child molester for taking party of such transactions. Morally, yes I realize that it is considered 'wrong' to do so, but the 'wrongness' of it all is what makes me want to do it so badly. The stigma of pedophilia and child molestation, the potential jail time, it petrifies and yet exhilarates me at the very same time, strangely enough. You may be asking, "If he's willing to molest a 4 - 12 year old child, he'd do the same here! He needs to be castrated! He needs to be shanked in prison! He needs help" While I would gladly anonymously do the last part, I see child prostitution different from just going about in a van and kidnapping children because I see the former as his/her consent and a money transaction, and the latter as plain rape. I know the fact that they're that young does change things, and if I weren't a pedophile myself, I'd probably be apart of the hunt to kill me as well, especially if I was a parent, but to me I see it as regular prostitution.

Paying for sex with an adult woman at a brothel wouldn't be considered rape, and if so, I sure as hell don't see it as such. Yes, I realize these children are in majority of cases being forced to do these things, but I have the mindset of "If I don't do it, someone else will so I may as well". If I ever did have sex with a child prostitute, I would never harm her any more than penetration, and that'd be it.