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Connecticut Bishops Fight Sex Abuse Bill

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~Fianna4/12/2010 4:57:48 pm PDT

re: #204 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I had sex with a 32 year old woman when I was 17 years old.

I’m just bragging now. Sorry.

I’m hesitant to open up this can of worms, but flip that and say a 32-year-old guy has sex with a 17-year-old girl.

The societal implication is that the girl has somehow been victimized, which is a holdover from the time where virginity was the whole of a woman’s value and rape was a property crime.

Statutory rape is sexist and implies that young women can’t desire sex or control their own bodies.