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BainsBane

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14. Rape is defined as the absence of consent
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:31 AM
Feb 2014

The age at which a minor can consent to sex with an adult is called "the age of consent." As seductive an adult might believe a 7 yr old, 12, yr old, or 14 yr old to be, they are too young to consent to sex and therefore any sexual contact with them is rape. Sex without consent is rape. End of story. You know, Jerry Sandusky, the Catholic priests, that sort of thing. Most law abiding people do not consider that a lesser offense that rape of an adult. In fact, most consider it worse.

States vary somewhat in the age of consent and how they deal with age differences between the older and younger participant. This is all available online for you to easily check. But you choose not to do so. Instead you seem intent on convincing us that sex with minors is somehow non-forcible rape, in the Todd Akin, Paul Ryan tradition. No one here is going to participate in that. In the "real world" such crimes are dealt with through jail time, and child predators are seen as the bottom of the barrel within the prison system. So your contention that an old man who rapes a 13 yr old is somehow less culpable than one who rapes a 36 year old is not something shared by law abiding people or even most felons.


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