What you already know: drunkenness won't protect you if you take an underage girl into your bed.

st_gulik · 2009-04-25T15:12:17+00:00

but it does strip women of their responsibility

pemboa · 2009-04-25T17:21:49+00:00

If you ask a woman to see her ID, and it shows her of the correct age, and the ID turns out to be fake, what then?

WebZen · 2009-04-26T12:18:21+00:00

Since when does drunkenness protect you from anything? If you're male, that is.

sirormadame · 2009-04-25T20:44:20+00:00

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2009-04-25T15:10:45+00:00

from daiyn

st_gulik · 2009-04-25T21:57:47+00:00

No shit, drunkenness in this sort of case is just like claiming ignorance, ignorance is never an excuse for breaking the law.

I am of two minds regarding consent laws for underage children:

I think that the US has the age for consent far to high and has taken the idea to the extreme when they threaten to prosecute children who are both under the age because they had sex with each other.
However, I don't think these laws should be done away with completely. There are legitimate problems with pedophiles preying on both boys and girls who're clearly underage. So some sort of law needs to discourage these predators.

Maybe if we lowered the age to 15-16 like a large percentage of Europe and even some states have it at, and also if we clearly defined the rules regarding prosecution and the shackling of 'sex offender' onto a person we could cut down on the out of control labeling and prosecuting of horny but really innocent children. I'd also go so far as to make a secondary safety net where if a person over the age of consent has sex with someone under the age, but the two are within two years of age then both are protected and cannot be prosecuted regarding consent rape laws. Forced rape laws and the such would still be in full effect and continue to protect say 15 year olds who're raped by 17 year olds (not just having sex with), etc..

Title	What you already know: drunkenness won't protect you if you take an underage girl into your bed.
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Upvotes	24
Comments	32
Date	April 25, 2009 3:09 PM UTC (17 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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