The same people who argue that abortion is not and will not lead to infanticide. This kind of thinking presents a cogent argument for defining Thoughtcrimes.
NAMBLA wet dreams are up 32%!
Teachers to Tell Them What Their Itching Ears Want to Hear Alert!
"Paul, PAUL! Your great learning has driven you mad!"
Children under 16 are incapable of giving informed consent PERIOD.
There just is a lack of will to prosecute for statutory rape anymore. We've even got exemptions for adults who are "near" the age of their minor partners (heterosexual AND homosexual now, so much for the lie that the erradication of sodomy laws only affected consenting ADULTS).
Another soon-to-be tenured professor.
By the same reasoning one could say the use of nuclear bombs isn't that damaging by counting only the survivors.
As a male survivor, I can say that those victims that say it had a neutral or positive effect are saying that only as a coping mechanism
It took 40 years for me to seek help and to even start beginning to understand the depths which sexual abuse distorts your thinking. Pedophiles should be thrown into prison and NEVER see the light of day again. Pedophilia destoys the life of the victim. The manipulation, shame, and guilt of the abuse stays with you forever.
I may never overcome what it has done to me, but I can warn others.
THIS KIND OF PERVERSION MUST BE FOUGHT TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR BEINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The article misses the point completely.
For example, the fact that some individuals may be capable of giving informed consent prior to sixteen is probably TRUE. Likewise, there are probably a great percentage of people who are unable to give informed consent at age 17, 20, or even 35.
The laws concerning consent are not intended to reflect the age at which the typical person reaches maturity. They are intended to make possible the prosecution of sexual predators. There is no justification for introducing uncertainty into the prosecution of these criminals. Just as we arbitrarily decide how many dollars constitute "grand theft" versus "petty theft", we must likewise clearly define the crime of statutory rape.
Establishing the age of consent based upon when the typical person reaches such maturity will assure that half of such people are unprepared to make such decisions. That seems plenty loose enough to me.
If the "research" was demonstrating that 99% of twelve year olds were mature enough to make this decision, then a change in law might be justified. Instead the article doesn't even suggest that ten percent of sixteen-year-olds can make such decisions.
But when did facts ever get in the way of a liberal agenda?
Anyone who lives near Mr. Dick Yuill would be well advised to keep their children away from him lest he attempt to bring to them a "positive" experience.
The right people aren't dying.
Science, eh?
I wish I could remember the handles of all the Freepers who pooh-poohed the idea that same sex marriage would lead to the breakdown of laws agaist other practices, cause I sure would ping them to rub their noses in this.
The slide continues....
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
-Chinese proverb
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And note post #12.
And to just what "party" does Richard Yuill belong? Which way does he lean - homo or hetero.?
To violate a child, to rob him of his privacy, his self esteem, his innocent trust in adults is the ultimate outrage, a sin unto death.
Also, Andrew Durham has been smoking something other than tobacco in his pipe! NOTHING good can result from a childs
molestation experience. His life is permanently damaged.
This all amounts to the systematic destruction of human decency. And it happened in a University!
Once we leave the bible's authority of what is immoral sexual relations, anything is up for grabs.