A great article about pedophilia witch hunt: http://open.salon.com/blog/patrick_j_kelly/2010/02/19/the_pedophile_witch
I recommend you read the original article, as it is full of very valid and strong arguments, including such points as:
- how can many people be criminally convicted for owning or watching multiple copies of one single 50 year old picture?
- how can 12 year old children be legally tried as adults, if they committed a crime, but they can only consent to sex when they are 18?
- how can 16 year olds be victims, if they enjoyed the act, if they actively sought it, repeated it?
- how can 16 year olds marry, have children, but legally not be able to consent to sex?
- how can a large part of the population be declared criminal, just for thought crimes like enjoying pictues of 17 year olds?
- why would people go to jail if there is no victim, if their crime (looking at a copy of a picture) did not harm anyone?
- how can people go to jail for something that 20 years ago was not even a crime?
- why is depiction, possession or looking at underage photos a crime, while depiction and consumption of murder photos is not a crime?
- how come that legal concepts like “innocent until proven guilty”, “guilty beyond reasonable doubt”, “penalty should be proportional to the crime”, “laws should not be arbitrary, discriminatory” are totally trampled and violated?
The challenge of legally punishing people for engaging in sex with minors has long been filled with problems. Alleged victims have always been reluctant to testify against someone who more often than not turned out to be a parent or close family member. Some were also reluctant to accept the premise they were victims at all in sexual encounters they not only enjoyed but frequently played some role in instigating. Laws defining 18 as the age at which one is mature enough to decide who they want to have sex with evokes cynicism from sexually active teens and preteens who view such restrictions as outmoded and totally out of touch with the reality they know. It is not that uncommon for many of these so-called children to be married with their own children at 16 which also draws into question the viability of the government’s one size fits all attitude towards sex. And when government prosecutors fight to have 12 year olds stand trial as adults doesn’t this call into question the rationality behind laws that say when it comes to sex you must be 18 before you are old enough to decide?
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