When Does a Watershed Become a Sex Panic?

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The policing of sex can blur the boundaries between rape; nonviolent sexual coercion; and bad, fumbling, drunken sex. The effect is both to criminalize bad sex and trivialize rape. Full Article

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So, I’m reading this article and I can’t help but feel that the world is in such a crazy place. Everyone accusing everyone and everyone being guilty before they have their day. Insanity.
This morning I’m reading on my FB about a potential attack on a young girl in Orange County (CA) that was walking home from school. All the local citizens are of course on a rampage with the stranger danger stuff. So some guy posts you should look at the “list” just to have awareness. To which I give him a small tongue lashing about how stupid the list is and how it doesn’t help him protect his kids. And I give examples. Here’s what he says in return:
“I didn’t say it would protect anyone, just simple awareness helps….And that is incorrect, there are degrees within the penal code system that require registration. A streaker is not on that list; underage consensual sex, unless there is a 3 or more year age difference is not on that list; and downloading child porn, unless it meets a significant amount of images/video, is not on that list.”
So, I’m thinking…I’ll just put this out and see who wants to help me answer this clearly uneducated guy who things he knows….any input RC family????

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