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In reply to the discussion: Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]roughrider101
(35 posts)"I knew of about a dozen in my time high school. In Los Angeles"
Interestingly then, this points to a serious problem in LA high schools.
But then again...how many people were there during your time in high school that made a dozen relatively common? Either way, it would have been extremely illegal, and I doubt it was deemed acceptable and normal by your peers.
Now, about the puritans. Can we stop that ad hominem, because it is too ironic.
The Puritans would be honky Dorry with a grown up bedding a child, they did it all the time. Statutory rape and age of consent laws were the result of progressive policies developed to protect and define children. In Iran a grown man can have sex with a 9 year old girl, that doesnt make Iran enlightened and progressive....it makes it the opposite.
I'm not arguing with you as a friggen Puritan. There is no god, and god has nothing to do with anything.
I'm for consenting adults being allowed to have whatever kind of kinky sex with as many consenting adults at the same time as they want. I believe they have a right to film it and then later get off watching it while peeing on each other if they desire. This has nothing to do with Puritans.
I'm not even for harsh sentencing for when the age difference is <4 years, but I find myself needing to argue more because this argument is over blown with fallacies (and I'm upset about the way the Hunt family lied and manipulated the GLBT movement).
They are unwilling to look at all the other incidents of the same damn thing happening around them. Those are just "young love".
In what universe? This is not going on 'all around anyone", by your own admission it is rare (you knew of a dozen such cases in your entire time in high school), and IT IS PROSECUTED if the authorities become aware of it, as your high school chum would have been if it was known to the police.
99% of Statutory rape cases involve heterosexual couples.
In 42% of Statutory rape cases that were prosecuted nation wide were where the younger victim was 14 years old, and the suspect was between 3-5 years older.
Do you have different stats that show that this case is discriminatory?
If not, then that should tell you something.
Data source: Federal Bureau of Investigation. National Incident-Based Reporting System Master Files for the years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 [machine-readable data files].
timeless romance, and that's a 13-year-old and a 25-year-old.
You are suggesting that it should be legal for a 13 year old to have sex with a 25 year old?
FFS, they also teach The Merchant of Venice that doesnt mean you can sign contracts using a LB of flesh for collateral.