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- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: "Monsters Among Us", Frontlines, November 10, 1992, PBS
- Message-ID: <13339@optilink.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:33:59 GMT
- References: <13147@optilink.UUCP> <1992Nov12.231349.29610@gordian.com> <1992Nov20.212216.12852@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.212216.12852@hellgate.utah.edu>, speterse%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty) writes:
- > In article <13236@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- # ## was to take account of the fact that heterosexual sex between a young
- # ## adolescent and an adult is not generally considered traumatic if the
- # ## adolescent is male?
- #
- # #Not at all clear.
- #
- # What's unclear about it?
- #
- # An adult male who has sex with an adolescent girl is "taking advantage"
- # of her, whereas an adult female who has sex with an adolescent boy is
- # "initiating" him--at least that's how the popular stereotypes run. I
- # don't claim that the stereotypes are true, merely that they are widely
- # believed, and that it is a perfectly plausible motivation for California's
- # age of consent laws.
-
- They are widely believed? Not by me, or the people I know. Maybe
- you need to hang around a higher caliber of people.
-
- # soren f petersen : i AM NOT : --Doc
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- We could say that Congress spends money like drunken sailors. But that would
- be unfair -- to the sailors. They, at least, are spending their own money.
-