simulatedworld
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Is this your way of saying there are no newstories to link to where a 16 year old boy had consensual sex with a 15 year old girl and then was sentenced to 26 years in jail?
You said previously there were many cases just like this. I saw many listed for 30-40 year olds with 14-16 year olds, none for 16 year olds with 15 year olds.
No, just that I'd rather argue about it than actually find any. I was generalizing. I've read newspaper stories and so on, so I know that it's happened, but it's not worth the effort to me to prove it to you. Has there been a case where the sentence was exactly 26 years and the ages were precisely 15 and 16? I don't know; I don't remember all the exact details of the stories I've read, nor do I care enough to find out. That wasn't really the point.
Although, to be fair, Trinity is right that it probably doesn't happen as often as I made it sound. I checked out these "Romeo and Juliet" laws a little bit and they seem to do a reasonable job of preventing this crap, in a fair number of cases. (Thanks, Trin.)
Trinity said:Your suggestion that the law considers them the same is ludicrous.
While the average sentences may be different, my main problem is with the word "rape" being applied to situations where no forced coercion happened. This really gives people the wrong idea and unfairly brands someone for life with a label that he doesn't necessarily deserve.
Again I ask: how is this power?
What you, sw and others are saying is basically, women (I would qualify women in progressive democracies) have some say over who they have sex with. So that if they don't want to whore around with everyone, they don't have to.
Whoop-de-doop.
Power, in the sense of having something someone wants? That's like saying a gazelle has power because a lion wants to eat her.
What we're saying is that women, for biological reasons, are the ones who make the decision for a sexual encounter to happen, in a large majority of cases. That's all. Nobody is claiming that this can or should somehow be changed; it's just a statement of fact, and it IS a form of power.