Which is a shame. I’d love for someone to explain the “crime” in a hot woman banging a willing and healthy 16 year old male.[/quote]
As long as you agree that by the same logic an adult man can have sex with a 16 year old female - or male; fine. I did doubt that though with the majority of posters here.
If you read my earlier posts, you will see that I find an age of consent of 18 unrealistic, as it’s quite obvious that it misses the reality of earlier sexual activity. If I remember correctly though, the boys in the case above were 14 and 15 - and that’s why the women have been charged with a number of offenses. In order to protect children from abuse (of whatever gender they may be), obviously, a line must be drawn somewhere.
Possible - and again, that’s not my point. My point is that - and there have been some very clear indications - the ‘atta boy’ attitude here would not be given were the adults male and the teenagers female, or the both male.
If you ask me - yes, make the age of consent more realistic, let people have more sex than less. But let’s also have less double standards about it.
[quote]makkun wrote:
My problem with this thread was the audience reaction: the double standard of overall hailing the ‘lucky boys’, in the face of regular shouts for public hangings for child molestation if it happens in a different context: adult males and young females, homosexual sex. In short - it’s us who are the hypocrites and that’s what I wanted to point out.[/quote]
I suppose if you want to take a biological look at it, a 15 year old GIRL probably isn’t ready for kids. Men on the other hand have the tendency to shag and leave.
I am of course talking about back in the day (i.e. caveman style). Perhaps it is a biological reflex? This is just a hypothesis.
Hell, if a girl that age want’s to have sex with an adult much older, then it’s her problem, not mine.
As I pointed out, neither do I. It may become a problem for the adult in the equation, if s/he breaks the law; as has happened in this case. My problem lies somewhere else - see below.
But, she does have to be more careful as she could be taken advantage of much easier. It’s not really us who are making these double standards, but the society.
It is us - our attitudes define society. Perfectly manifested in your assumption that a girl can be taken advantage of much easier; that’s a very classic, but IMO questionable attitude. What do you base that opinion on? That girls are per definition more vulnerable and need (male) protection? How delightfully unreconstructed.
The fear of unsafe sex or rape is much higher in women due to all the fucked up guys out there, and that is what I believe actually causes this double standard.
The pressures by partners on women to practise unsafe sex aside, the fear of rape is much higher in women because women are more likely to be raped by men. It would be a sad society that accepts the standards of fucked up guys who engage in that behaviour. The standards are set by us - the ‘normal’ men and women that constitute society. Don’t blame society when you can take responsibility yourself.
Makkun[/quote]
I agree with you, but I was saying that the individual person doesn’t set these standards, but the society in which they live has been pronouncing them for such a long time, that most people accept it as their own view. The lucky few are able to think for themselves.