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Interesting letter from that site. Looks like I'm not the only one who wonders out loud about the "age of consent" motives.

The Original Email - April 2002:
To whom it may concern,

I recieved a link to your site a couple of months ago while in an internet chat room. Let me just say, as a gay youth (I'm only 20) and a democrat (even though we typically believe in the right to chose your path rather sexually or abortion-wise.), I found your site very offensive!.Although you are exercising your right to free speech, I feel that this site is a site that I would picture a pevert going to. It seems to me that older men come on this site just to see what states they can go to, so they can have sex with younger men and women, men and women under the age of 18. I personally feel that many of these states that have laws saying that under 18 to have sex is OK, Is setting a person up for a lifetime of pain and mysery and depression. We already see that when a person feels unattractive they turn to sex for a way out, rather is with a trucker from down the street. or prositituting themselves on the streets in the big city. I mean would you want your kids being targeted by people who check for these things on the internet? To check to see where they can find some "Young meat to take?"
You website in the long run isn't helping people, it's just a lawbook for defending the perverted. I feel that maybe you should create a site focus on preparing people for the pros and cons of sex and not preparing minors to have sex with older men and women.
Jay

The same could be said for straight pedophiles. So, what's your/his point? Otherwise, I haven't viewed anything else on that particular site, since my only interest was finding a chart of which states & nations have disparate age-of-consent laws.

If you are attempting to get me to concede that some individuals [of whatever sexuality] would have an interest in age-of-consent laws because of pedophilic motivations, I have no doubt of that, nor did I intend to suggest otherwise. If you wish me to accept that this is the driving force behind those organizations which have advocated equalized age-of-consent laws (such as the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, Amnesty International, the Human Rights Campaign, and the International Lesbian & Gay Association) then I will not because I do not believe that, nor will I.

Might I also add that I have no particular reason to believe that the individual who sent that email is either gay or a democrat - although one or both is a possibility. I do however have strong reason to believe that the webmasters of that site are not so threatened by the insinuation that they would not make the email available on their servers..