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To: FredZarguna

What part of the 14yo was damaged?


134 posted on 08/04/2011 8:53:03 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr
What part of the 14yo was damaged?

It's probably pointless to explain this to someone who asks this question, but to give you the benefit of the doubt, let me try.

Our laws recognize that children are not competent to give consent to sexual acts; there can be no "consent" because children do not know what it is they're consenting to. For this reason, contrary to what you and Whoopi Goldberg may believe statutory rape is "rape rape." If you think a fourteen year old is not a child, you've probably never raised any, but when you do, you'll understand that adolescents are still emotionally children even though they're physically adults. If you have children and don't understand that a fourteen year old is still a child -- secondary sexual characteristics not withstanding -- I feel very sorry for your kids.

WHENEVER an adult has sex with a child it is damaging to both the victim and perpetrator, just as every crime is morally and emotionally damaging to both the perpetrator and the victim. A child is not equipped to understand the meaning of sex: the fourteen year old in this circumstance is not simply rubbing off a quick one in the privacy of his bedroom; he's interacting with another human being in the most intimate, most expressive way we have of communicating. If he comes to believe that sex is nothing more than the shallow "relationship" he's had with this rapist, that will deprive him of the proper understanding of intimacy for the rest of his life.

Is that damaged enough for you?

Because as strange as it might seem to the juveniles posting in this thread -- and altogether too frequently on FR these days -- it's actually quite possible that this child has developed feelings for this rapist as a result of the act. Where does he go with those feelings when he discovers he was simply used, or, if as seems more likely, that his parents arranged for all this to happen? In which case, his first sexual encounter wasn't with another inexperienced adolescent who cared about him enough to want her first sexual experience to be with him, but instead, was with a prostitute.

Is that damaged enough for you?

And this isn't speculation. Many studies show that the earlier and more frequently people have sex before marriage the less likely they are to be able to appreciate sexual intimacy. This is verified in the actual personal experience of most people that I grew up with in the very permissive 1960's and 1970's.

Now, I have given you the courtesy of a lengthy, thoughtful reply. I would like you to show me the same consideration by asking, and honestly answering yourself the following questions:

If you personally know compulsive skirt-chasers or promiscuous women, are they really fully developed human beings? [Hint: NO]

How would your feelings about this sordid little episode change if -- instead of being a babe -- the alleged rapist was very old, extremely ugly, or morbidly obese, and she liquored up a kid for the purposes of using him for sex? If you're honest with yourself you'll understand why some of us are annoyed with the "Not guilty!" postings on this and similar threads.

163 posted on 08/04/2011 10:23:21 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("Not guilty" of being a church lady, just somebody's son, husband, and dad.)
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