Mystech said:
Michael Jackson, the catholic priesthood, countless "low lifes" around the nation. . . maybe we shouldn't be blaming the adults here, but instead we should be turning a scrutinizing eye to those slutty little boys.
I cannot find the case reference, but in the 1980s, a Wisconsin judge acquitted a man of molesting a three year-old girl on the grounds that she behaved promiscuously and tempted him.
Alain said:
anyway, who would agree that an 18 year old and a 90 year old is acceptable?
Maggie Kuhn. I highly recommend the PBS production
Maggie Growls.
We've all heard of child molesters, but how about adult molesters?
Hey, I learned to harass women before I knew why I was harassing them. I used to whistle at the women in Diet Pepsi commercials, and everyone would laugh. It's one of the benefits of not being popular in school that I never actually hurt anyone, but I was in high school before I figured out there was
something wrong with acting like that, much less what it was.
General Comment
Absent from this or, generally, any discussion of youth and sexuality these days is a certain medical aspect that is very important. Certes we hear of HIV, HPV, pregnancy, and so forth, but there is also much evidence indicating that a human female beginning sexual intercourse at, say, the age of her first period, is not a wise idea. That they're old enough to bleed does
not make them old enough to breed; there's a gray zone pushing around between 14 and 17 that says if a woman begins sexual intercourse before this point, she
triples her risk of cervical cancer. Sex before a body is ready can be as bad as smoking for twenty years.
So despite the fact that I have seen 11 year-old girls appear shockingly mature, and despite the fact that we're rushing children to become adults in every other way while simultaneously sexualizing them in order to support our economy while actually trying to quash hormones (a losing battle to begin with), I think the true ethical consideration lies well-beyond the immediate questions of whether or not an 11 year-old is
simply emotionally prepared for sex.
I like pot. I like smoking pot. I think more people should smoke pot. But f@cking up the developing brain of an 11 year-old with a joint a daily bong rip is simply rude and inadvisable.
Same thing with sex. I like f@cking. I think people should f@ck more. But f@cking up the developing anatomy and medical future of a child all for an orgasm is
beyond rude and inadvisable.
In older times (into the late 19th century, at least) statutes existed placing a girl's age of consent at ten years old. In some jurisdictions you could
buy their consent. Nothing about informed consent, nothing about maturity. Knowing that we could condemn a generation to battling cancer, should we go forward with what was good enough for older, more traditional American mores?
Eleven year-olds should only be screwed by federal education policy. And even
that is a dubious permission.
