Posted on 08/31/2013 9:06:27 AM PDT by Qbert
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As protesters decry the leniency of Rambold’s sentence — he will spend 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales, who committed suicide at age 16 — I find myself troubled for the opposite reason. I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.
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I’ve been a 14-year-old girl, and so have all of my female friends. When it comes to having sex on the brain, teenage boys got nothin’ on us. When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, the sexual boundaries between teachers and students were much fuzzier. Throughout high school, college and law school, I knew students who had sexual relations with teachers. To the best of my knowledge, these situations were all consensual in every honest meaning of the word, even if society would like to embrace the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex. Although some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died.
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A more realistic approach would be to treat violations in a way that removes and rehabilitates the offender without traumatizing the victim. The intensity of criminal proceedings, with all the pressure they put on participants, the stigma, the community and media scrutiny, and the concurrent shame and guilt they generate, do the opposite of healing and protecting the victim.
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Gosh, perhaps we should just abolish all statutory rape laws while we’re at it.
The DNC and Teachers want it mandatory.
Neither should sex between Presidents and interns.
In fact, anyone in a position of power over another should be able to demand sex from them at any time.
First step: Destroy sexual mores.
Second step: Regularize homosexuality.
Third step: Lower the age of consent.
I would rather go for long jail sentences, registering these perverts as a sex offenders and the loss of all pension and benefits. Teachers are supposed to be trusted adults. The only way to ensure that is remove the untrustworthy ones.
Pedophilia advocacy already out of the gate
I think that teachers are so innundated by liberal crap, particularly the women, that they become socially disfunctional in the presence of “normal” members of the opposite sex so they stoop to sexual relations with those they are able to brainwash.
Yes of course they believe that unless you are a Republican. Dems can have sex with anyone they want and it is perfectly okay. But if you are a Republican then you cant have sex with anyone. Review articles for the past 20 years.
coming next: I think sex at day cares should be legal. Who doesn’t love a baby? /s
Where does it end?
That was too obvious for words.
Yes, I agree.
“Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime (Actual title)”
I agree,
as long as shooting of teachers by parents of the kids they’ve had sex with carries the same penalty as a parking ticket.
>> “Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime (Actual title)”
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> I agree,
> as long as shooting of teachers by parents of the kids they’ve had sex with carries the same penalty as a parking ticket.
Given how some police act, that speeding ticket could be “summary execution” and, don’t you know, that the officer’s safety is paramount?
The leftists are so terrified of anything that will cost them union membership numbers that they will go so far as to defend child-rape.
Ping.
Sure moron. No pedo would ever take advantage of a 13 year old girl and say...blackmail her or him for grades?
This is an early sally into the next big round of societal devolution spearheaded by liberals. A pedophilia-friendly article in the Liberal Standard. Normalization of adult/child sex is the goal.
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