There is no safe way to have sex or watch porn
A girl has a 100% valid state ID, with her photo and signature, and social security card. The ID proves she is 20 years old. You engage in sex with her, Film it. Sell it. Due to strict liability statutory rape laws there is no way how you can escape prison after it turns out the girl is 15 and conned the state into falsely giving her an ID. People who distribute your perfectly documented porn, of course go to prison. Even the press is unaware that 100 000 men who downloaded it, with perfect proof of being over 18 years of age, also can go to prison.
Conclusion: to have sex, watch porn, you at least need to get a US$ 30 000 background check of your partner, A detective has to get birth records, school records, interview parents and teachers. Even that is not 100% secure. Thus: never have sex, never engage in fondling or indecent behavior and never look at any nude or indecent pictures. Ever.
Society could not function if such strict liability without mens rea were the norm.
Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore’s disaster
In early 2010, Tyler Chanel Evans, a 19-year-old exotic dancer, took under her wing a pretty, homeless girl who said her name was Bieyanka. The girl had been standing for hours outside a convenience store with an overstuffed duffel bag. A few days later, the waif stole Evans’s expired learner’s permit and copied her social security number.
All quotes from Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore’s disaster, unless stated otherwise.
Bieyanka, it seems, outwitted many people. She wasn’t 20 as she had told Evans, but a 15-year-old runaway from Palm Beach Shores. She persuaded the State of Nevada — perhaps with an adult’s help — to improperly issue her a driver’s license in Evans’s name. And using that license, she duped Miami pornographers into illegally hiring her to have sex onscreen. Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore’s disaster
A 15 year old girl steals the identity of another girl that helped her when she was lost. Government gives her a legal driver’s license stating her age is 20.
Bieyanka Moore: Besides Doing Porn, 15-Year-Old Runaway Went on Nevada Crime Spree With Adult’s ID
MyspaceTyler Chanel Evans– the real version.Lawyers for RK Netmedia, owner of porn site Reality Kings, still refuse to concede that a 15-year-old runaway who went missing last year is the same person who starred in one of its hardcore films. But the evidence is getting pretty conclusive. … More >>
Appraising Strict Liability (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)
Then she uses that government ID to do porn movies, and, obviously, to have sex. Whose fault is this?
Of course, the people who have sex and who make porn movies. Behooves them right: why do they do porn movies? They should be in jail anyway! And you should not have sex with someone not your wife and who looks under 35? [*1] [*2]. Before sex, Human-Stupidity.com recommends not only an ID check, but a background check ,by a detective, of school records, birth hospital records and more.
Strict liability and mens rea: go to prison even if you did all possible precautions to avoid a crime
The lawsuit against RK Netmedia, which Sherrita Smalley filed in Miami-Dade court this past December, is still developing. Attorney Grossman says Imber’s LLL Advertising will soon be added as a defendant. Florida criminal law decrees that "a minor’s misrepresentation of his or her age… may not be raised as a defense" in statutory rape prosecution.
This is called "strict liability crime" [1] [2] [3] [4]
The liability is said to be strict because defendants will be convicted even though they were genuinely ignorant of one or more factors that made their acts or omissions criminal. The defendants may therefore not be culpable in any real way, i.e. there is not even criminal negligence, the least blameworthy level of mens rea. Strict liability (criminal)
Strict liability abuse in sex "crimes". No pharmacist goes to prison for filling prescription of doctor with false diploma
Much less will the pharmacist go to prison if the diploma was correctly signed by a State University registrar.