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Billboards Urge Men Not To Have Sex With Minors
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Posted on 06/15/2004 6:36:14 AM PDT by esryle

RICHMOND, Va. -- The state is posting billboards with messages such as "Isn't she a little young?" as part of a campaign to dissuade men from having sex with underage girls.

The campaign is aimed at reducing the number of young girls who have children with older men, the Virginia Department of Health said Monday.

In 1999 and 2000 in Virginia, men over 18 were responsible for 219 births involving girls who were 13 and 14, the department said.

Messages such as "Isn't she a little young?" and "Sex with a minor, don't go there" also appear on posters, coasters and napkins in bars, restaurants and stores in five cities.

"We encourage adult men to talk to their peers and discourage them from pursuing teenagers. What they are doing is unhealthy and against the law," said Robert Franklin, a health department official.


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To: Old Sarge

Amazing that someone thinks this actually needs to be said! YIKES!!!! I'd hate to have to explain that billboard to my kids! Grrrrrrr!!!


21 posted on 06/15/2004 6:53:32 AM PDT by StarCMC (Please pray for the 2/7 Marines and Josh.)
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To: esryle

I think the catch-phrase "fifteen will get you twenty" was much more effective. Unfortunately, this is not true anymore...


22 posted on 06/15/2004 6:53:45 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: martin_fierro

LOL, but yikes at the same time!


23 posted on 06/15/2004 6:55:03 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
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To: Agnes Heep; Corin Stormhands; iceskater; Coop; Gabz; AppyPappy; Militiaman7
"These billboards are an open admission that the state either can't or won't enforce its laws--a gilt-edged invitation for adult men to pursue teenage girls."

No, it's not...not in the least. Virginia prosecutes offenders when they are caught. Just a few months ago, a VA Tech football player (18) was prosecuted for having sex with a 15-year-old. I'm not saying they threw the book at him, but I believe he got some jail time.

Virginia is no haven fer pedophiles...MUD

24 posted on 06/15/2004 6:55:28 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (Revive the Reagan Revolution...NOW!!)
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To: esryle

This is disturbing, what next?


25 posted on 06/15/2004 6:59:25 AM PDT by Lx (If you're not depressed, you haven't been paying attention...)
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To: counterpunch
SAN FRANCISCO, California - The state is posting billboards with messages such as "Isn't she a man?" as part of a campaign to dissuade men from having sex with each other.
26 posted on 06/15/2004 6:59:56 AM PDT by Sender (Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy)
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To: esryle
Billboard-One in 4 homosexual men will catch AIDS in the next 10 years. One in 4 million heterosexual men will.

Pray for W and The Truth

27 posted on 06/15/2004 7:00:51 AM PDT by bray (Let's win one more for the Gipper)
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To: Jimmyclyde

...i'd definitely chip in some funds should some enterprising freeper in Ca. make that happen...


28 posted on 06/15/2004 7:01:06 AM PDT by cweese
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To: Jimmyclyde

Hah! Should have read yours first.


29 posted on 06/15/2004 7:01:08 AM PDT by Sender (Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy)
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To: Sender

YOu guys are killing me here!!!! ROFLOL!!


30 posted on 06/15/2004 7:01:47 AM PDT by StarCMC (Please pray for the 2/7 Marines and Josh.)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Virginia is no haven fer pedophiles...

Thank goodness.

But as another poster said......they will probably be about as effective as the anti-smoking billboards.

31 posted on 06/15/2004 7:03:58 AM PDT by Gabz (RIP President Ronald W. Reagan 1911-2004)
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To: Gabz

It is a sad commentary on our morals that we have to do this.....


32 posted on 06/15/2004 7:07:27 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (Abortion: Big people killing little people)
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To: Gopher Broke

I agree..........especially as the mother of a soon to be 6 year old daughter.


33 posted on 06/15/2004 7:08:22 AM PDT by Gabz (RIP President Ronald W. Reagan 1911-2004)
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To: Gabz

This in my hometown? Good grief.


34 posted on 06/15/2004 7:08:32 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman
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To: Gabz
"...they will probably be about as effective as the anti-smoking billboards."

No argument here...it's probably wasted money...MUD

35 posted on 06/15/2004 7:08:45 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (Revive the Reagan Revolution...NOW!!)
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To: ICX

Actually I remember it to be an Oldsmobile


36 posted on 06/15/2004 7:11:11 AM PDT by UB355
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To: Mudboy Slim
...it's probably wasted money...

But we know they're good at that in Richmond................

37 posted on 06/15/2004 7:12:55 AM PDT by Gabz (RIP President Ronald W. Reagan 1911-2004)
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To: Mudboy Slim

She was 14.


38 posted on 06/15/2004 7:14:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: esryle
As serious as having sex with minors might be, it's only the tip of the iceberg.

We should have billboards urging men not to drown children in bathtubs.

Or billboards urging men not to smash babies' heads into sidealks.

There's just no end to the horror caused by men.

39 posted on 06/15/2004 7:29:51 AM PDT by Nick Danger (With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
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To: esryle

Isn't this discrimination against those who are genetically predisposed to having sex with young people? It's just a different lifestyle and not an issue of morality, just another hue in the rainbow we should all be celebrating. You can't legislate morality, blah blah blah blah blah [/puke]


40 posted on 06/15/2004 7:35:48 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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