Teenagers: Your Sex Lives May be Illegal
Many teenagers may be shocked to learn that the intimacy that they and many of their classmates share could land them in prison. In fact, the senior who's dating a junior could be in danger of becoming a lifetime registered sex offender, and considered a sexual predator of children.
One of our family personally knows of a 16-year-old male who had a 14-year-old girlfriend. That was legal in the state of Texas, and he was known for being gentle and caring. But as soon as he turned 17, he was arrested and was considered a sexual predator and a child molester for being intimate with her. The actual difference in their ages hadn't changed, but his birthday made all the difference.
Genarlow Wilson was convicted and sentenced to serve 10 years in prison by the state of Georgia. His crime? As a 17-year-old, he engaged in consensual oral sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. He served for almost three years before the state supreme court released him--barely.
Learn more about these laws, which 19-year-old teenager Lorien Loveshade calls "laws against love," at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_re_us/teen_sex_laws
Learn more about Wilson at http://loveshade.org/blog/2007/10/man_released_after_imprisonmen.html
Comments
What gives the government the right to tell me what I should do with my own body? And I'm not even talking about abortion!
I'm a virgin but that's by choice. But I've done sexual things with people older than me and younger than me. We didn't hurt anybody. So should we go to prison for that?
Can't the government see the difference between consensual sex and rape? It doesn't matter how old you are. If it doesn't hurt anybody, it shouldn't be illegal. All consensual sex should be legal!
Stop laws against love!
Posted by: Lorien Loveshade | October 31, 2007 06:55 AM
Let's arrest everyone who had sex as a teen. Then we can make them all registered sex offenders. Then being a sex offender won't mean anything because everybody will be one.
Posted by: Gerald the Herald | November 2, 2007 09:10 PM
Hey, Little Red, stay away from those little boys at school. You need to go looking in the woods for a real boyfriend.
Posted by: Bad Wolf | November 5, 2007 10:45 PM
So you want me to go into the woods? I guess that's what the law wants me to do.
Posted by: Little Red | November 6, 2007 01:13 PM
It is laws against love. It doesn't matter what your age. Consensual sex is consensual sex. It's none of the government's damn business.
Posted by: Gee My Hair Smells Terrific | November 13, 2007 12:54 PM
Problem here is BIG GOVERNMENT telling us what to do. They prosecute people sharing love but promote killing people in other countries. What's wrong wit America?
Posted by: Marvin in Your Face | November 17, 2007 06:07 PM
This is just crazy. Kids are gonna have sex you can't stop it. So why make them criminals for doing what comes naturally?
Posted by: Wilmad | November 23, 2007 06:46 PM