.....You have to take the word sex offender and look at each individuals case.
Like the case of the kid who streaked at a Minnesota highschool football game. He might have to register as a sex offender just for doing a dumb stunt.
Or the guys who are 18 and have consential sex with their 17 year old gf and get labeled as a sex offender.
The system is pretty screwed up......I think 99% of the sex offenders are probably that, but the few like the highschool kid doing the stupid stunts should not be labeled like that......
Agreed.
The media has really ran amok with the word "Sex Offender".
It's no surprise.
They had something similar with the Salem Witch hunt. Any girl that points someone out for alledged witchcraft will be burned at the stake.
I suspect that by some of these laws that half the guys in the USA should be sex offenders.
Some examples: U are a 17 year old senior in high school. u have a GF that is a Sophomore who is 15. U go out on a date. Things are looking good. U kiss, touch her breasts, but by the time ur down to her pants she has some second thoughts about "saving it" or being called a slut, etc. She resists, but u think it's just a natural girl instinct, u pursue fingering her since u are stronger and hope that she will succumb to pleasures of the flesh.
After a few seconds of rubbing the man in the boat she relaxes and has her first big O.
Is that defined as sexual assault?
I think so. And I suspect that is how most teenagers sexperience their "first"
Let's take it one more step.
That guy is still with his gal. He turns 18 and she is under 18. Technically, here in California, that's a sex offender.
Let's move on to different cultures.
Back in college I took a course in Cultural Anthropology. One of the courses that I actually found interesting for the GE curriculum.
One of the topics that was discussed was sexual values and morals in various non-western-non-judeo/christian cultures. An example was cited where the mothers in Polynesia and Micronesia would frequently rub the penis' of their baby boys as pacifiers.
1. baby boy would cry
2. mom would check to see if everything ok
3. baby continues to cry
4. mom rubs dick
5. baby stops crying (looks stoned)
There were no mental ill effects, etc.
If this were to happen in USA, she would be a sex offender.
SO what is right and wrong?
Do the USA have any right (in the name of human rights) to go and tell other cultures what is right and wrong?