[HitmanLV]

Consent isn't an issue in statutory rape - any emphasis on that is misplaced.

The public policy concern I refer to is the general concern that female sexuality is to be more protected than male sexuality. One reason, as I said, is that women bear a burden from sexual relations that men don't: pregnancy.

Another reason to value female sexuality more than male sexuality is that females are more necessary than males to create future generations. One man may be able to get dozens of women pregnant in a month, for example, and repeat that process the following month. Once a woman gets pregnant, she can't get pregnant again until after the child is brought to term 9 months later.

There are other reasons, I'm sure.

This isn't a matter of codification since laws reflect and advance public policy but don't codify the policies themselves.

In this case, since our culture values preserving female sexuality more than male sexuality, it punishes violations of female sexuality more harshly than violations of male sexuality. As I said several times already, that's not different punishment for the same thing, but different punishments for different things.

[H.Akston]

Vive la different sex laws, for people who experience sex differently. In fact, the age of consent for males should be about 14&6 mo. The adultery was much more damaging to her good husband than her dalliances with this 14 year old were to him. Having once been a 14 year old male, now well married, I know whereof I speak.

And by the way, in everyone's life, there's a Summer of '42.