JerseyArt said:
That's absurd, and a little disturbed.
Sexual consent laws have nothing to do with preventing minors from having sex. They are designed to prevent minors from being used by adults who could use their experience/authority to take advantage of a minor.
Ideally children would not be having sex at all, since they are ill equipped to handle any negative emotional/physical/ or financial outcomes. But if they are going to do it, at least allow it to be with someone whom they are more likely to share an equal footing with, not some sick fuck adult who is too intimidated by a more grown mature woman, and only feels confident molesting children
i wouldnt say its absurd. although i dont quite agree that society is perpetually in need of a 'bogeyman', i do agree with max in the arbitrary age clearly dileanating 'underage' and legal sex rather abruptly as being stupid
where do you draw the line, after all? 16? 17? 20? hell while we're at it, why dont we use a sliding scale so that you can have sex with a minor if youre also a minor, or within a certain (also arbitrary) age of said minor.
since we all want to regulate sex, why not throw in some alcohol/emotional scaling- why is is illegal to have sex with a 17 year and 363 day year old who is sober and emotionally immature, but perfectly fine to have sex with a mentally impared, heavily intoxicated 18 and one day year old?
i fully agree that the law is in place to protect the weak from exploitation and what have you, but i think that a law that relies entirely on age as the discriminant is fundamentally flawed, and also affects social perception of sex poorly. people are stupid, and will automatically assume that something illegal is wrong, even when it isnt.
i have some rather nice plans for some young ladies (which i fully intend to follow through with) and if past experience with others in their social group is anthing to go by, "a good time will be 'ad by all"
