Posted: Dec 19, 2011 5:38 pm
There are clearly some outright absurdities in the law. For example, in the UK you can legally consent to sex at 16 - but you can't watch people having sex (porn, for example) until you're 18. As the comedian Jimmy Carr quipped, you can have sex with somebody at 16, but you can't look down while you're doing it. Society at large may be incapable of thinking about sex in a rational way, especially with the Abrahamic "faiths" polluting any such discussion and blocking any progress. Look at the battle we had over equalising the Age of Consent for heterosexual and homosexual sex, for example.
I do think that many of the sexual relationships that get people thrown in prison are probably completely harmless before the law gets involved. 15 year olds having affairs with their teachers: standard tabloid fare. But what are these opinions when we have science? Unfortunately, even trying to study this scientifically evokes hysterical opposition and controversy.
I do think that many of the sexual relationships that get people thrown in prison are probably completely harmless before the law gets involved. 15 year olds having affairs with their teachers: standard tabloid fare. But what are these opinions when we have science? Unfortunately, even trying to study this scientifically evokes hysterical opposition and controversy.