RE: teen has consensual sex with female teen
June 21, 2015 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm by Secular Elf.
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(June 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: What's worse about this case is apparently the prosecutor made a plea deal with the guy which included the stipulation that he would not be registered as a sex offender. The guy took the deal. Then, the prosecutor violated the plea deal by asking the judge to rule that the guy be registered as a sex offender anyway. I believe the family are trying to withdraw the plea.
Hopefully they'll manage to get the case review by a different judge as well, because the judge said when sentencing:
"You went online, to use a fisherman's expression, trolling for women to meet and have sex with. That seems to be part of our culture now: meet, hook up, have sex, sayonara. Totally inappropriate behavior. There is no excuse for this whatsoever."
In other words, the judge sentenced him based on his own personal moral view, rather than what the law is (since it's not illegal to go online to meet women and have sex).
It seems to me this case is a reflection of the schizophrenic attitudes we have about sex in this society. In the land of the free and the home of the brave, you can do just about anything you want but when it comes to sex, oh shit, watch the people run around like chickens with their heads cut off!
And the hypocrisy and double standards, my word what a web we weave!
So, what age is too young? What age should consent matter? How do we rationally apply standards that everyone can agree to? I think part of the problem is that it is much too subjective to the point no one could agree to any objective conclusions.
From my point of view, there should be mandatory rational sex education from age 11; age 11 to 13 is way too young to allow sex between the same age or degrees of 1 to 5 years in either direction, consensual sex should be allowed by age 15 under parental discretion, and kids age 15-19 should be quite aware of how to use contraceptions such as condoms and birth control pills and devices. Laws across all states should be made to reflect those considerations. So long as the sex is consensual and no harm or pregnancy occurs, legally there should be no rape charges. But if the ages of both participants is so far ranging that one is an adult and the other is still a child, then we got a problem. In clear cases of pedophilia, throw the book at the sob or bitch.
Next, watch the Right Wingers pull all their hair out.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
