re: #217 ~Fianna

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.

I’m afraid I will have to disagree with you. Sex is not a trivial thing, and a person should understand the consequences and the end results before engaging in it. I remember myself at 16. I was an idiot.

To try to pretend that a 15 year old is just like an adult is to ignore the actual MRI scans showing that they are not. The brains aren’t done yet.