# How does Megan's Law affect decriminalized sex offenses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168 "2011-10-19T18:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/21 "2012-02-04T03:48:18Z")
If you’re going to post a link that doesn’t work, at least tell us what it was about. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/22 "2012-02-04T04:38:48Z")
> **[Classically Liberal: There is a fury and and sadness inside that I cannot...](http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-fury-and-and-sadness-inside.html)** Not sure why my iPad dropped the L in htmL but it did. Basically, the largest category being added to the sex offenders registry is boys 14 to 16… > [@](#): > > These laws are not so much protecting children from predators as they are turning them into predators. Look at this chart (see note at bottom of article). This is an age chart for individuals who are legally defined as sex offenders. When you look at the ages of the offenders you see that 14-year-olds are apparently the most sexually dangerous group in America. The rate declines from there, but throughout adolescence the law is far more likely to deem kids as offenders. You may imagine the dirty old man down the street. But with age people are less likely to “offend”. One reason is that they are more mature. But another reason is clear. Once you reach a certain age, having sex with people your own age is not considered a crime. The explosion of “youthful sex offenders” is not the result of our kids becoming perverts. It is the result of the law criminalizing what is a normal part of growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Granny\_Rainbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Granny\_Rainbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granny_Rainbow)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/23 "2012-02-04T04:43:22Z")
How about people stop committing sex sins/crimes? Then you don’t have to worry about it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/24 "2012-02-04T04:51:29Z")
Reported. Anyway, some of the people we’re talking about are gay men who were convicted of the “crime” of consensual sodomy, or 16 year old boys charged with crimes for some heavy petting with their 15 year old girlfriends. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/25 "2012-02-04T04:59:24Z")
40 years ago if a teacher caught 2 students in flagrante they either called the parents or,if cooler, tell them to get dressed and get the hell out and never let me catch you again… Today if they do not report it to the principal and police their future is as toasted as the offending children. We force teachers to be Stasi snitches with threats as diabolical as the Stasi or KGB. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168/26 "2012-02-04T14:30:35Z")
> [@Granny\_Rainbow](#): > > How about people stop committing sex sins/crimes? Then you don’t have to worry about it. Of course, if nobody committed sex then we would eventually not have anyone called “Granny”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-megans-law-affect-decriminalized-sex-offenses/600168.md?page=1)