"When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an attorney for the ACLU, she co-authored a report recommending that the age of consent for sexual acts be lowered to 12 years of age," the article points out.
Personally, I think it should be about... 12 or 13. I don't think kids should be having sex that young, but biologically speaking, some of them are mature enough for it and, if they CONSENT to it, no one should be punished by an arbitrary law.
Jesus Christ. I know several people who started "having sex" (being raped) at that age. All have ruined lives. The most successful of them "only" has bulimia.
It has to be illegal so that there is a legal structure to make sure that kids get the help they need and adult pedos get punished. The age of consent should be 18.
I know your next point. What about 17 year olds dating each other?
Here in Virginia we have some laws that are in place but not enforced unless we need them. Such as sodomy. We don't actually care what people do. But there was a park in my neighborhood that people couldn't go into anymore because dudes were meeting there and being publicly indecent. Having sodomy laws on the books gave the cops another tool to use to get the perverts back to some kind of decent place, such as, oh, I dunno, a hotel or their own homes maybe? Not a park where people go with their kids and dogs?
I was 15 and was raped by a 19 year old man. Reported it to my mother, who said "Congratulations! You're a woman!" She was pleased by the possibility that I might be pregnant because she could help raise the baby.
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DRKStar00 ago
"When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an attorney for the ACLU, she co-authored a report recommending that the age of consent for sexual acts be lowered to 12 years of age," the article points out.
::violently throws up::
jimibulgin ago
What do you think the AoC should be? 16? 18? 21?
Personally, I think it should be about... 12 or 13. I don't think kids should be having sex that young, but biologically speaking, some of them are mature enough for it and, if they CONSENT to it, no one should be punished by an arbitrary law.
VIrginiaPerson ago
Jesus Christ. I know several people who started "having sex" (being raped) at that age. All have ruined lives. The most successful of them "only" has bulimia.
jimibulgin ago
Also, what do you think the age of consent should be?
VIrginiaPerson ago
It has to be illegal so that there is a legal structure to make sure that kids get the help they need and adult pedos get punished. The age of consent should be 18.
I know your next point. What about 17 year olds dating each other?
Here in Virginia we have some laws that are in place but not enforced unless we need them. Such as sodomy. We don't actually care what people do. But there was a park in my neighborhood that people couldn't go into anymore because dudes were meeting there and being publicly indecent. Having sodomy laws on the books gave the cops another tool to use to get the perverts back to some kind of decent place, such as, oh, I dunno, a hotel or their own homes maybe? Not a park where people go with their kids and dogs?
jimibulgin ago
I don't have another point. I was just asking what you think the AoC should be.
At what age did you first have sex?
Again, for the record, I was 16.
VIrginiaPerson ago
I was 15 and was raped by a 19 year old man. Reported it to my mother, who said "Congratulations! You're a woman!" She was pleased by the possibility that I might be pregnant because she could help raise the baby.
jimibulgin ago
Wow. that is pretty fucked-up. I am sorry that happened to you.