Pic of the Moment: Crazy Sh*t Conservatives Say Inside the Fox News Bubble

[Stonepounder]

32. Wow! Did you ever miss the point of my post.

1. In common law, 'statutory rape' is almost invariably used to mean an older man engaging in sex with a female who is past puberty but still younger than the 'age of consent'. I was simply commenting that 'statutory rape' is normally used in conjunction with 'young' women, so the comment about 'statutorily raping young girls' seemed to be somewhat redundant and was wondering why the speaker needed to qualify her comment that way.

2. My basic comment had absolutely nothing to do with rape. It had to do with the frenzy about the 'morning after' pill being sold over the counter to anyone. The morning after pill is a method of contraception for women, and the conservatives seem to be going bananas over it. I was simply questioning why it is OK for anyone to buy condoms, which are a male form of birth control, but somehow it is not OK for women to buy birth control. Granted, condoms are used 'before' and the morning after pill is used 'after', but the end result is the same, conception is prevented. It doesn't have to be rape. It can be completely consensual, but 'unprotected' sex, with a morning after realization of OMG. That was the point that I didn't understand. I would suspect that the vast majority of women who would avail themselves of the morning after pill would fall into the OMG category, not the 'I've just been raped' category.

I hope that clarifies what I was trying to say. Sorry if it was misunderstood.