Oh apparently someone stuck a stick up Gaddafis ass after he got shot and there was alot of touching of Gaddafi.
I agree. I mean I know statues can't give consent but I don't think they should be protected by law. I should be free to have sex with all the statues I want.
The whole idea behind statutory rape is that kids under 18 don't have the mental capacity to understand the full significance of their actions, and thus cannot give consent. Actually, in Pennsylvania, the age of consent starts a 13. The rule is "2 up 2 down" basically means that after 13 and until you're 18, you can get it on with someone 2 years older then you, or two years younger than you (but above 13).
Wow so the Government is generalizing now? everyone develops differently, a 15 year old could have the same brain as an 18 year old, it all depends on how the person develops.
Actually, PA doesn't really have a statutory rape law. What you're referring to is basically child molestation (defined as rape of a child in the code) rather then statutory rape. It is a first degree felony in the state of PA to "engage in sexual intercourse with a complainant who is less than 13 years of age." However, that only applied to rape in the conventional, not statutory sense (PA Code, Title 18, Chapter 32, Subsection B). The actual part of the code dealing with statutory rape was repealed in 1995 (PA 18 § 3122). There is still a statutory assault statute, which is more similar to the conventional rule of 16 that most states have. Basically it is a 2nd degree felony for a person 20 years old to engage in sexual relations with someone 16 or younger, provided they aren't married. That's pretty much the long and short of it (PA 18§ 3122.1). Feel free to read up on this exciting aspect of the pa code here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.031..HTM
As LeonTrotsky said we don't believe that children have the mental capacity to know if they want sex or not. Its also why we don't let them drive, why we don't let them drink, we don't let them vote. Its just how things are run nowadays. But also because people die at around age 80 of natural causes we believe that people don't need to grow up so fast.
Now see that is a logical law. but for a 18 year old to have sex with a 16 year old, how does that make any logical sense that he go to prison, granted that Statutory Rape is an E felony, and you only get 1-3 years in prison, I don't see how a person should get punished for that, when they could be going after real rapists and pedophiles.
Well, what I was trying to say was that the age of consent can be very confusing at times, thanks for the info though. Basically, my thought is this: If I wanted to, I could probably go down to the middle school in my area and get hooked up in like three minutes because the kids there are dumb. Aka, they cannot understand the full ramifications of sexual intercourse. Now, I will say that many more seasoned individuals don't either, but those of that young and age cannot.
