Ouch! Dude got what he deserved.

Maybe I've grossly misinterpreting some of the posts on this thread, but ... are people really arguing it should be OK to have sex with 13-year-old girls?

 

They're teenage girls, dumbass.

 

Gary Glitter doesn't see the big deal in all of this.

 

The wife?

 

Nope, your not misinterpreting. That's some people's stand.

 

I haven't seen that argument put forth.

 

Maybe he didn't use those words, but ...

 

I think you are confusing whether it's OK or not with whether the government should be regulating it.

There are plenty of things that aren't OK in the world, but there aren't laws regulating all of those things. The argument some people are making is that this is one of the things that the government should not be regulating. Obviously there is disagreement on this point, but to say that anyone here is advocating sex with 13-year-olds seems unnecessarily inflammatory.

To put it another way, a 22-year old who has sex with two underage girls is probably a scumbag. The two consenting girls, in turn, probably have very poor judgment. But I don't think being a scumbag or having very poor judgment should be illegal.

 

Ok, I probably should just let this go, but anyway.....

Here's some of the things (in addition to sex) that are government regulated based on minimum age: movies, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, driving, military service.
Add it up, and that's a lot of regulation on 'not Ok' things for our youth.

And the reason for that is illustrated in your last graf, Pirates. People that young will often tend to have poor judgment because they haven't had opportunity to use that judgment or have experienced situations to know better/make wiser decisions.

Better to protect the young than let them scar themselves for the rest of their life.

 

I would take movies and cigarettes off that list. Alcohol, drugs, driving and military service I would leave on. The first three because there are possible consequences to others to consider, and military service because an underage person probably isn't qualified.

I'm not a big fan of government laws designed to save people from themselves or from potentially traumatic consensual relationships. I think that's a job for more informal societal institutions.

 

She wasn't "involved," so to speak. Other than as a tow truck.

 

I'm not a big fan of the government dictating behavior, either. But when it comes to protecting children from perverts, I am all for it.

And anyone who would have sex with a 13-year-old is a pervert. Unless, you know, she's just super hot.