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- From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (Michael D. Adams)
- Subject: Re: Pedophilia as sexual orientation
- References: <74481@cup.portal.com>
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- Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
- X-Header-1: Bigotry is not a family value -- boycott Colorado, think twice
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- X-Header-3: Florida.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:13:20 GMT
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- Randu@cup.portal.com (Randall - Jabaay) writes:
-
- >>lasaga@corral.uwyo.edu writes:
- >>However,if you want to engage in sex with a minor who doesn't know
- >>enough or hasn't the power to say "no",then I have to say that you
- >>should NOT do it.
-
- >I agree wholeheartedly.Any sex that's forced on another person is rape.
- >But will you also grant a minor the power to say "yes"?
-
- Then consensual acts of pedophilia shouldn't be a problem, right?
-
- Oh, yes.... I keep forgetting that this country has a thing about
- legislating morality and prosecuting victimless "crimes."
-
- Anyway, basically any line you draw in defining an age of consent
- will be "wrong." I know some 15-16 year-olds who are mature enough
- to accept the responsibility of having sex. I know some 21-22 year-olds
- who aren't mature enough to belong out of kindercare just yet.
- (Around here, they happen to belong to these social clubs known as
- fraternities...)
-
- I personally would like to see a fuzzily-defined age-of-consent...but
- I'm not sure that the court system in the U.S. is competent enough to
- determine a person's own, real "age of consent."
-
- --
- Michael D. Adams |"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend
- University of Illinois | them from injustice?" -- Lillian Hellman
- StarOwl@uiuc.edu |"Computer, end program!" -- Lt. Barkley at the end
- Standard Disclaimers | of ST:TNG, "Ship in a Bottle"
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