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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/us/fl ... .html?_r=0

Where was the Times for the hundreds (if not thousands) of young men who were prosecuted for the same situation. Age of consent does not apply for same sex sexual assault?

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Holy shitsnacks!

It's obscene to have a law that penalizes an 18 year old with a 14 year old lover. They are practically the same age-- they're both potentially high school students.

Canada's law may not be perfect, but it at least is fair:

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The Times (and MSNBC & CNN) seem to be picking this up as the new cause to run with. It is an equal application of the law that has them upset.

The untold number of men who were prosecuted under this law seem to have no mention, but have some cute teenage lesbians it becomes news about oppression.

The Canadian one sounds a bit more realistic though.

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I admit it, this was pure flame bait, I wish this had occured a few years back with a few of the more rabid posters, it could have been a twenty pager.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-me ... 8-year-old

"an LGBT Injustice!"

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A law that penalizes an 18 year old for having sex with a 14 year old is hardly obscene, but it's hardly entirely fair either. The problem with laws surrounding sex between teenagers is that it focuses on age, not on the relationship between them. A pair of high school teammates are really not of any difference in power and influence over each other. On the other hand, if the older girl had been an assistant coach or other person the younger would regard as an authority figure for reasons in addition to age, that would be a problem.

Either way, the idea that this is based on the same-sex nature of the relationship is hilarious. If anything, this is a sign that Florida enforces the law fairly and does not aim it only at males (gay or straight).

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The law enforcement absolutely is because of the same sex nature. The parents of the 14yo are pressing charges because they don't approve of the same sex nature of the relationship.

But the main thrust is that its only a big story now because its girl-girl, and touted as unfairly applied because of that. Hence,

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Holy shitsnacks!

No, Ara, the law enforcement is not about sexual preference. The law enforcement is because it was brought to the attention of enforcers of law, and a sexual relationship between an 18 year old and a 14 year old is against the law in that jurisdiction. The 14yr old's parents are not law enforcement, and the reason you insist it is because of the same-sex nature of the relationship is because the parents of the accused and a facebook page said so.

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The report that I read a couple of days ago stated that Kaitlyn Hunt was 17 and her friend was 15 when they started dating. In my opinion, that is not statutory rape.

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Most of the News reports have it at 18 on 14

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I'm going off this:


/shrug.

I can't speak to whether or not the younger girl's parents would have gone to the police if it was a 17/18 y/o male. But if it was a male/female situation, its not likely that it would be news at all.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It probably wouldn't be. That does not change the fact that the law enforcement is not because of the same sex nature of the case. If it were a young man, he'd most likely quietly take the plea bargain since he would have no media to scream to that its because of his sexual orientaion.

Vindi is correct. The law may not be fair, but the enforcement practice is.

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It isn't dating thats statutory rape, its the sex. Whether 17 and 15 would be depends on the state.

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I will have to try to find the report I read, but according to it both of them would have been minors and consenting at the time, so the fact that they were both minors (according to the first report I read) when it started and the fact that ages have been changed in other reports, leads me to believe some shenanigans are going on to make this look worse than it should be, or else the first report was completely wrong, in which case I would like to have more truthful information on which to base my decision.

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I think it's pretty likely the first report was simply wrong, since the difference in age is either 2 years, or 4. If the accused is 18 now, and they were really 17 and 15, the "victim" would have to be 16 (or close to it) now, not 14. That's something that would be pretty damn hard to hide with shennannigans.

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4 years difference in age always seemed proper to me. As for lesbians, that's not really sex anyway.

So you're going off what the accused's father wrote to start an online petition. Got it.

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I was propositioned last year by a 15-year old girl. Shocked the blazes out of me and if I had gone anywhere with it (I politely declined) the judicial system could have put me away for a long time and taken everything I have and that would have been that. I would have agreed that I had knowingly broken the law and couldn't have defended myself with a straight face.

When I was 18 I would have risked it, heck, I did have a 16 year old girlfriend then. Yes.

The law in Canada seems to make much more sense than the laws here.

Given the sexuality involved it is just more people scared of what they don't understand tying to make their fears and dark fantasies illegal.

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The laws regarding sex between teenagers of various ages are not there because teenagers don't want sex. They're there because teenagers don't make good decisions about whether they should have sex, whether they want to or not. This is the same for both males and females; unfortunately we have created this idea as a society that teenage girls really just want to say "no" but lack the self-confidence to do so. While sometimes that's the case, the simple fact is that teenagers of both genders have hormones, and both genders make stupid decisions because of them.

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If that is, in fact, the reason the laws are on the books, that's a bad dividing line. This is not a problem restricted, or even largely skewed towards, teenagers.

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It's not, but the reason teenagers make those bad decisions is directly related to age - namely, they just don't know any better, and don't yet have a good sense of risk.

It has the advantages of being objective (a person is either of a certain age, or is not) and easy to understand, and anything better seems unlikely to present itself.

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