Aaaand it turns out that as of yesterday, you’re wrong. Also, it was already “a crime for a person in a position of trust or authority to have sex with someone under 18.”
In one of the high-profile cases of a woman teacher and male student affair, much like this one she was unrepentant and kept seeing him when out on parole or bail or whatever. She got sent back to do more time. When she finally got out for good, her “victim” married her and the two raised their kids. A couple things:
Anyone remember what their names were? I’m wondering if they’re still together.
Anyone have any examples of a female student “victim” marrying and raising a family with her “abuser”?
I don’t know of any crimes that treat the sexes differently offhand, but there are certainly instances of the law treating the sexes differently. Child custody tends to favor anyone with a vagina, for example.
ETA: Hey, I just thought of a weak reach: going shirtless in public is penalized differently depending on your gender.
That’s what happens when you work overseas, you miss all the latest news back home. I believe I mentioned issues regarding power in one of my posts, so I agree it probably should be a crime. I just don’t think it is as damaging to for a teen to have sex as many perceive it to be.
Must be tough for a Canadian lad, after months of cheerfully and legally banging his 15-year-old girlfriend, to be suddenly faced with a few more punishing months of government-mandated dry-humping.
They have some clause wherein if the older person is within 5 years of the younger, it’s not illegal. Still safe to fuck that 15 year old if you’re 19!
Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau? Looks like they’re still together but one has to wonder about their quality of life.
I’m trying to imagine how much it would suck to have the woman I love – the mother of my children – sent to prison for the first six years of our second child’s life simply because her man was me.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I would find it more harmful than being molested by a teacher at the age of 13.
Which is The Rule of the Most Offended. The belief that your greater outrage makes you correct and thus able to mock or dismiss everyone who does not share your degree of outrage.
Go ahead, you’re going to do it anyway. Doesn’t make you right, doesn’t make me wrong. It just gives you an outlet for your inner anger. It allows you to select and create enemies and ‘bad people’ for you to further direct your anger at in the future.
Boo hoo, that Chimera is such a doody-head that he doesn’t realize how much he’d have been damaged by banging one of his teachers when he was 14. How could that man be so stupid! Doesn’t he realize blah blah blah… :rolleyes:
You say this without rebutting a single argument I made. Which doesn’t make me offended. It makes you unable to have an intelligent argument.
When you’re insisting that I would be damaged by something even after I tell you otherwise, there really isn’t anything to continue to refute. After that point we’re into Monty Python Argument Clinic time.
What I am arguing is your tactics. Being the most vehemently offended person in the room does not give you the right to dictate the discussion to everyone else, to tell them how they should feel, to tell me how I would or would not have been affected by something. Those are Bully Tactics.
You may silence others by doing so, but it’s not because they agree with you, it’s because they see that it’s hopeless to discuss anything with you.
You are not reading what I wrote. You insist that there is “no way” you would be damaged. I’m saying, you can’t know that because of the X factor in the situation-- the teacher, who would have to be pretty fucked up. You can’t say for sure it would go swimmingly. There is a possibility it would be a nightmare. You won’t acknowledge that.
I’m not offended. I’m appalled that people have not considered anything beyond their own dicks in this situation. It’s not just about getting laid by a hot older woman. The stories in question illustrate that nicely. It’s the lack of full consideration of the situation that aggravates me, and an inability to consider why this might be a bad experience for a boy. It’s not because 14 is too young for sex. It’s not because I’m telling you how YOU would handle it. I’m trying to get you to understand how the scenario is inherently screwed up, and all you keep saying is, “Lalala, I would have loved it, you can’t tell me otherwise!”
I’m not trying to silence you. I’m trying to get you to see beyond your own point of view, which does not take into account other possibilities. If that causes you to be silent for a moment while you think, well…
Then you’ve “won”, right?
Still want to know how the pro-ephebophilia crowd feels about their 14 year old little Johnny taking it in the rear from Mr Hotbod the shop teacher…
Well, by all means, then, don’t stop and think! Wouldn’t want me to “win,” would you?
Ensign Edison, I second your question. I don’t see anything but a double standard here against grown men who have sex with young people, whether the man be gay or straight. Only the fulfillment of their adolescent hetero male fantasies can be rationalized.
Wouldn’t that be Mr. HotRod?
Chimera, I’m not agreeing with a lot of what Rubystreak is saying in relation to your thesis, but I don’t think the reference is to winning when she mentions stopping and thinking.
Well, I guess as long as they’re wearing safety goggles…
I mentioned The Rule of the Most Offended earlier. That last word could easily be replaced with Ardent, Angry, Passionate or several other words. It’s a form of logic that says “I feel this way, and if anyone feels less so, they have to be wrong. Therefore I’m right in ramming it down their throats until they either submit or shut the hell up”. That’s what I was feeling from Rubystreak in this thread.
What kind of question is this? Am I suppossed to be shocked that my son may like taking it up the ass? I think it pretty much tells us that any of your arguments are based upon moral outrage and not rational thought.
Is this supposed to be my reaction? “Oh, you are so right. Now I see the errors of my way. What was I thinking? Obviously the child will be scarred for life (literally) and it doesn’t matter one whit to his long term mental health if he actually wanted to get pounded by Mr. Hotbod.”
Yeah, I agree that someone in a position of power over someone else shouldn’t be making sexual advances towards them and they should be deflecting advances made from them (I’m looking at you Mr. Clinton) whether they are minors or not. But just because you do have power over someone doesn’t mean that if you do have sexual relations that it will cause the same scarring in all cases. Rather, it is more likely, that people will react in any number of ways from enjoying the experience to utter revulsion and self loathing. Forcing people to move from one category to the other because that is the way you think they must feel is just as bad, if not worse, than the original act itself.
Why do you think I want you to shut the hell up? I made an argument, and you didn’t rebut it or try to discuss it, you just called me Most Offended and accused me of trying to silence you. I don’t know why you think that or where you’re getting that from. This is a debate, so debate me and prove me wrong if you can. You’re trying to change the focus of this debate from the merits of your thesis to my motivations and tone. It doesn’t help prove your rightness any.
And the point I’m trying to make is: you say there is no way you’d be harmed by sex with your teacher. I’m saying, it’s not the sex that would harm you. It’s the intimate interaction with a psycho when you’re too young to handle it properly. Can you acknowledge that’s a possibility? If not, why not? Don’t be silent. Defend your position.
I haven’t put forth any arguments. I’ve made a mostly tongue in cheek observation that most of the approval of this kind of thing comes from people who are sexually aroused by the idea of doing it. When you make a situation which is not sexually arousing for them personally, they tend to support it less.
I had sex with adult males when I was a teenage boy, and don’t consider myself traumatized by it. I think you’re barking up the wrong phallic symbol with this line of attack.
So to be clear, you think it should be legal for adult teachers to have sex with minor students?