We all know that the AoC varies....
Submitted by 194 on December 16 2000 14:36:22
In reply to if it is rape submitted by Forgiven on December 15 2000 18:20:42
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....from place to place. No great revelations here. And this doesn't detract from the fact that rape and sexual assault derive their seriousness from the notion that sex is viewed as a serious matter. "please defend your use of the word rape to the youth lover of Quebec with a 14 year old as a sexual partner, when it isn't in his jurisdiction." No problem. If sex is a weighty, pretty serious matter, then the 14 year old is, with some legitimacy, deemed not old and experienced enough to consent to something as serious as sex with an adult. So, it is statutory rape, because the 14-yo can't quite consent to it(because of the seriousness of sex, as indexed by the seriousness of rape). Statutory Rape has it's differences with rape per se; that's why it's called Statutory Rape rather than just plain rape; but it also has it's similarities with the common-or-garden variety of rape, in that the issue of *well-judged* consent to an activity as *weighty* as sex with an adult, who may be 30, 40, or 50 years old, is of central importance in both. I trust this clarifies the matter, for some people at least, even if not for you. Regards 194......... BLer |
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