Recently there was a story in the news about a gay thirteen year old boy. He knew what he wanted and trolled the internet for guys who wanted to hook up with him. Most of these guys were grown men.
The kid’s parents found out and told the police. Close to 20 men ranging from 20-50 years old were arrested and convicted on charges of statutory rape. The parents cut off their son’s access to the internet but he found a way around their blockade and hooked up with more guys who were also arrested and charged for abusing a minor.
The kid clearly knows what he’s doing. He decided that he wanted to hook up with random men that he found on the internet and went through with it. When he gets caught, the grown men that he hooked up with are thrown in jail and he just repeats the whole process all over again while the authorities treat hime like he’s a damaged, abused child.
Now my question to you is: who’s abusing who?
Full disclosure, I’ve been fucking adults since I was 14 and loved every encounter. Nobody ‘took advantage’ of me. I was a willing and enthusiastic participant and would hate myself and the system if any one of those lovers was locked up for it. Obviously I understand that the laws are in place to protect minors who can’t protect themselves but I think that we need to start making special exemptions to our statutory rape laws.
Agreed. There are so many problems with the age-of-consent laws in the United States of America that it isn't even funny. The situation you described in your article is almost identical to a 2008 case involving a 13-year-old girl named Alisha Dean in Florida who misrepresented herself to be 19 years old on her website to trick adult men into going to bed with her and getting arrested for statutory rape. This problem with our age-of-consent laws never gets better as time moves on. Just worse.