Why is it illegal to be happy?

[TaraJo]

I've met a 15 year old guy who was charged with rape because his girlfriend was 13. I've heard stories of guys being charged with statutory rape because her parents found out they were having sex in a window period between when he turned 18 and when she did. Yes, there are girls out there who will walk up to a guy in a bar, claim to be 21 (or else they couldn't be in a bar in the first place) and they're really only 17 or so.

I think these are extreme examples that are easy to avoid, and very poor reasons to modify statutory rape laws. If you have a 13 year old girlfriend, I don't think it's very hard avoid having sex with her.

Also I find it highly unlikely that a sexual encounter between a 17 year old bar tramp and whatever random guy she picked up is really going to press statutory rape charges against a guy. It's just an example of using extreme examples to try to change otherwise good laws.

True, those are probably going to be the exception, not the rule, but the law needs to have enough wiggle room for the unexpected. I don't want the laws changed because of what I see happening; I want them changed so that they can adapt to the unexpected situations.