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its a shame that women get off so easily. they need ot make an example out of someone and get the same treatment men do.

rape is rape. doesnt matter what gender the offender is.

I understand the reasoning behind your opinion on this matter, but please allow me to disagree with you.

Boys and girls are psychologically different. As a 42-year-old man, I agree that when an adult man uses force or fraud to trick an underage girl into having sexual relations with him, it is rape — a nauseating violation of the natural order. Girls associate sex with love, and, when the loveless nature of statutory rape becomes obvious to them, they feel cheap and used. (And, of course, when a grown man seduces a teenage girl, he is using her — which is why any sort of extra-marital sex is a sin. It is a sin to use people solely as a means of obtaining pleasure.)

But as a former 14 year old boy, I think I can say with authority that I myself would not have felt in the least bit violated had a teacher like this one seduced me. On the contrary, it would have made me feel like the biggest stud that ever walked the earth. Boys do not associate sex with love; to them, sex is conquest, and “conquering” a grown woman is the ultimate sign of masculinity.

Of course, statutory rape is rape. No matter which sex is involved, there is always an unequal power arrangement between the older and younger participants.

Statutory rape should remain a crime because it damages society. It damages society because it is fraudulent: a teenager cannot possibly be fully aware of the physical, legal, and moral ramifications of the sexual act, and, therefore any “consent” they might give in such cases is invalid. However, the amount of psychological damage done to the adolescent in a given case of statutory rape varies from seveere (in the case of girls) to nonexistent (in the case of boys). In fact, the real threat from older-woman-teenage-boy acts is not any damage such an act might cause to the teenage boy’s self-esteem, but the amount of unhealthy ego it might inspire in him. A kid who can attract and conquer a grownup woman is not going to grow up with much respect for women.

Again, I understand your thinking on this issue. But the simple fact is that, for most teenage boys, being seduced by a lithe honey blonde would be a dream come true, not a nightmare. I wish it weren’t so, but that’s the way real boys are in the real world.

...its a shame that women get off so easily.

"Are you kiddin'? You've obviously never met my wife."

</Rodney Dangerfield voice>

“rape is rape. doesnt matter what gender the offender is.”

Perhaps, but you are discussing a statutory rape case.

Unless you are a lawyer of some agencyperson whose job depends on these cases, one can’t help wondering why you have difficulty comprehending the difference between male and female in such cases.

Or do you simply like government becoming the 900# gorilla in these areas?