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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: AD from SpringBay
Isn't this discrimination against those who are genetically predisposed to having sex with young people?

Perhaps Michael Moore could do a documentary about all this......

61 posted on 06/15/2004 4:22:47 PM PDT by dirtbiker (Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
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To: Mudboy Slim

You just illustrated my problem with much of this. I wouldn't consider an 18 year old who's involved with a 15 year old a pedophile by any stretch of the imagination.


62 posted on 06/15/2004 5:52:29 PM PDT by Melas
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To: esryle


I'd like to see such an educational campaign in my neck of the woods. Statutory rape and teen pregnancy are still big problems in Central California. Especially in Hispanic neighborhoods.


63 posted on 06/16/2004 7:01:35 PM PDT by Commander8 (Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16)
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To: mhking

"Just damn" alert


64 posted on 06/17/2004 6:51:43 AM PDT by Imal (Bill Clinton was the man who brought the dignity of The Jerry Springer Show to the U.S. presidency.)
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To: esryle
Anybody that needs the billboard to tell them its message don't need a pulse.
65 posted on 06/17/2004 7:40:47 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Michael Moore is to movies as Dr. Josef Mengele was to medicine.)
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To: Nick Danger

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

Can you say "Susan Smith"?

I'm sure you are joking about blaming everything on men, but a serious point should be made about women who kill their own children just to be rid of them (whether prenatal or postnatal) or who let a man live in their house with their children when they have only known them for two weeks.


66 posted on 06/17/2004 8:37:33 PM PDT by mean lunch lady (“I once wanted to be an atheist but I gave it up – they have no holidays.” ( Henny Youngman))
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To: Motherbear

WE have that on buses out here in California.


67 posted on 06/19/2004 11:17:06 PM PDT by asmith92008 (If we buy into the nonsense that we always have to vote for RINOs, we'll just end up taking the horn)
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To: Melas
No, he's a perfect gentlemen. Kind of boy any parent would love to raise.
68 posted on 06/19/2004 11:22:08 PM PDT by asmith92008 (If we buy into the nonsense that we always have to vote for RINOs, we'll just end up taking the horn)
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To: dirtbiker

"Perhaps Michael Moore could do a documentary about all this......"

He could call it "Fahrenheit 30/13"


69 posted on 06/20/2004 7:18:12 PM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: Jimmyclyde

Why don't Blonds in San Francisco wear mini-skirts?? Because their balls show!


70 posted on 06/25/2004 1:37:30 PM PDT by Groutrig
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