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Vocabulary confusion and age of consent

Zap, my sincere condolences on what happened to you. You bring up a very valid point. If a man who marries a woman and has four children then rapes a boy, he does not become homosexual. He becomes bisexual. A great many bi-sexuals prefer homosexual behavior, but use heterosexual behavior as a shield from community scorn.


You can argue about sin all you want, but as long as both parties are legally recognized as adults, able to reason for themselves, then what they do is not illegal, sinful as it may be. Therefore, from a legal standpoint, the point is moot. Is it good for society as a whole? Well, that's another matter, entirely.


Pedophilia, on the other hand, involves someone who is legally defines as being incapable of reasoned consent. There are those who believe that law should be changed, or the age limit lowered. My position is that if they lower the age limit for sexual consent, then they must also lower it for ALL contracts, voting, military service (and possible draft), insurance policies, etc. NAMBLA (sad that we actually know what that means - they're too well-known) would probably not agree to that. Do they really want the nine-year-old they raped to be able to legally buy a gun or order explosive components online? I doubt it.


What we need to do is ENFORCE the age of consent, equally across the board. If an 11-year-old girl actually managed to have sex with a 7-year-old boy (the mind boggles. He was capable? Not going there) then they are BOTH below the age of consent, and both victims. Victims of the vast publicization of sexuality in our culture that gave them instructions on the mechanics of the act before they were capable of understanding the consequences of it. Therapy is in order, but not jail-time for the girl, unless there is also equal jail time for the boy, because after all, he would be the one that penetrated, and I think I'll go throw up now.