Colorado woman faces no jail time for statutory rape, pregnancy by 13-year-old boy

Guille said:
When I was that age my dick got hard when the wind blew...It's rape because of the lack of legal ability to consent. You know that.
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Which is why it is statutory rape.

If you have a problem with this, take it up with the lawmakers.
 
AProudLefty said:
Guille said:
No, it's rape. A statutory rape is still a rape.
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Nope it isn't.
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As Diesel, myself and Guille have now pointed out, it is, both in terms of the law and in terms of the dictionary. I quoted The American Heritage Dictionary in Post #80 to make my point, Diesel quoted Merriam Webster to make the exact same point.

I definitely think this is a travesty. People who are forcibly raped should -not- be in the same category as people who consented to having sex but were not legally allowed to do so. I know that the word used is generally legally capable, but if we're defining consent as simple assent, an adolescent boy is certainly capable of assenting. Sometimes language is overly ambiguous and I definitely think that the word rape has become so ambiguous that people need to be very specific as to what -type- of rape we're talking about.

I think the biggest problem with lumping people who aren't allowed to consent to having sex with people who are forcibly raped is that experiences are frequently vastly different. As I pointed out in Post #40, there is at least 1 case where a young adolescent male who had sex with an adult woman claimed to love her and even got married with her once he became an adult.

I think most of us would agree that this generally doesn't happen when someone is forcibly raped, at least not if the person raped has any say in the matter.
 
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Phoenyx said:
As Diesel, myself and Guille have now pointed out, it is, both in terms of the law and in terms of the dictionary. I quoted The American Heritage Dictionary in Post #80 to make my point, Diesel quoted Merriam Webster to make the exact same point.

I definitely think this is a travesty. People who are forcibly raped should -not- be in the same category as people who consented to having sex but were not legally allowed to do so. I know that the word used is generally legally capable, but if we're defining consent as simple assent, an adolescent boy is certainly capable of assenting. Sometimes language is overly ambiguous and I definitely think that the word rape has become so ambiguous that people need to be very specific as to what -type- of rape we're talking about.

I think the biggest problem with lumping people who aren't allowed to consent to having sex with people who are forcibly raped is that experiences are frequently vastly different. As I pointed out in Post #40, there is at least 1 case where a young adolescent male who had sex with an adult woman claimed to love her and even got married with her once he became an adult.

I think most of us would agree that this generally doesn't happen when someone is forcibly raped, at least not if the person raped has any say in the matter.
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Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
 
AProudLefty said:
Phoenyx said:
As Diesel, myself and Guille have now pointed out, it is, both in terms of the law and in terms of the dictionary. I quoted The American Heritage Dictionary in Post #80 to make my point, Diesel quoted Merriam Webster to make the exact same point.

I definitely think this is a travesty. People who are forcibly raped should -not- be in the same category as people who consented to having sex but were not legally allowed to do so. I know that the word used is generally legally capable, but if we're defining consent as simple assent, an adolescent boy is certainly capable of assenting. Sometimes language is overly ambiguous and I definitely think that the word rape has become so ambiguous that people need to be very specific as to what -type- of rape we're talking about.

I think the biggest problem with lumping people who aren't allowed to consent to having sex with people who are forcibly raped is that experiences are frequently vastly different. As I pointed out in Post #40, there is at least 1 case where a young adolescent male who had sex with an adult woman claimed to love her and even got married with her once he became an adult.

I think most of us would agree that this generally doesn't happen when someone is forcibly raped, at least not if the person raped has any say in the matter.
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Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
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I see you've put your sentence in italics. Are you quoting a dictionary or are you just putting your sentence in italics for emphasis? In any case, both The American Heritage and Merriam Webster dictionaries list sexual penetration without the other party's consent as only one type of rape. They also list other types, one of which is having sex with someone below the age of consent.

Feel free to look at their definitions for yourself if you don't believe me:

https://www.wordnik.com/words/rape

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
 
Phoenyx said:
I see you've put your sentence in italics. Are you quoting a dictionary or are you just putting your sentence in italics for emphasis? In any case, both The American Heritage and Merriam Webster dictionaries list sexual penetration without the other party's consent as only one type of rape. They also list other types, one of which is having sex with someone below the age of consent.

Feel free to look at their definitions for yourself if you don't believe me:

https://www.wordnik.com/words/rape

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
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Nice. Focusing on the usage of italics when the definition has already been posted before.

Good job.
 
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