my post of the week goes to Booldawg LOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL.
The law protects 14 year olds from such predatory behaviour. Supposedly they cannot 'give consent', so it is sexual assault. Maybe the law/research knows more than my common sense on this issue.
I feel eminently qualified to speak on this issue, namely I have once been a 14 year old boy. I expect anyone else who has once been one is also qualified. When you are a 14 year old boy, getting it on with an older woman is on your mind A LOT. You have just gone through puberty. Hormones etc are in overdrive. Thank god things calm down a bit after that. I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can honestly, hand on heart, say that this lad will be traumatized by such an experience.
If it were INCEST, I can imagine how it would be different. I do not know much about how a male acting to a 14 year old girl would have different effects, I suspect the effect would be different. Pregnancy is also an issue, maybe the law has this in mind.
This woman broke the law, and the punishment is there for her. But speaking *scientifically*, I'd be extremely surprised to find out that the vast majority of 14 year old boys didn't spend the rest of their lives looking back on this situation with a smile on their faces. The major defence for the law as it stands is that he was too young to 'give consent'. Oh really. What happens 2 years later when he hits 16? The scales suddenly fall from his eyes and he becomes an in-control consent giving machine? I think not.
And this woman is put on a sex offenders register, and will be given the same level of monitoring as a guy who raped 8 year olds. Hmmmmmm.....