I get it. But it will be extremely hard to garner sympathy for sex offenders.

Yes, but the author cannot seriously expect politicians to be able to control their sadistic urges.

I was reading an article just yesterday about a guy in Britain whose son, who was aged 16 or 17, made love with a girl who was 15, two months off turning 16. She told him she was 16. When the girl's mother found out she freaked and reported the boy to the cops and he ended up being on the sex offenders register, I don't know the details. The boy had always aspired to be a pilot in the RAF, and now he was debarred not only from that, but all the careers he had ever wanted in the public service. Seeing that his life's dreams had just been shattered by "a stupid little girl" (the father's words), the son committed suicide. His body was seen hanging in his bedroom window covered in wounds from his self harm. His mother went into a grievous depression and committed suicide 2 months later.

Ironically at the same time as politicians bend over backwards not to offend the homosexual lobby, they are redoubling the vicious persecution of normal human sexual behaviour in other areas. For purposes of a discussion of sexuality, the idea that people are physically or psychologically incapable of consenting under the age of 18, or 16, is just simply nonsense. Not only that, but the average age of puberty in women has fallen by 3 years since the age of consent laws were first passed in the late 19th century - the biggest physiological shift in history. While in former ages, a 15 year old sexually mature woman - 3 years less physically mature than today's 15 year olds - would have been ready for marriage and family, we now have the situation that the *males* are unequally criminalised, because it is also normal human behaviour for heterosexual couples to match up with an age difference of a few years.

Talk of "predation" is also vicious and sadistic nonsense. We're not talking about anyone eating the flesh of another, we're talking about *consensual* sex between sexually mature people.

KJK,

Yes.

There's no segway here that connects normal consensual sex between consenting adults and the usual homophobia that rears its ugly head any time sexual offence is the alleged topic?

People who prey on kids can be hetero or homo and permissible in some cultures, who allow older women to educate young boys on the how to art of making love to a women, particularly less experienced less knowledgeable girls!

And we also know that one in four households, experimental sexual activity is the common norm between siblings of all sexual orientation, and often initiated by the more sexually mature female family members?

Precocious kids don't get to be precocious by chance, although possible? But are usually exposed to sex by other older more knowledgeable children or adult pedophiles of all sexual orientation!

That said, lost innocence is never a victimless crime; and we ought to have a sexual register that names and shames all pedophiles, name, rank, serial number, recent photo and current known address, which can never be close to a school/child's playground etc.

This is the worst we can do to these folk, who if I had my druthers would be surgically castrated before being sent into permenant exile with only their peers for company?

On a lighter note, I heard of Kiwi Professor, who wanted to know what effect testosterone played in young adult male sexual behavior and had herself injected with three doses of testosterone monthly?

The first month the story goes you couldn't wipe the smile off of hubby's face? The second month, saw him scurrying furtively looking for a dark corner, while his better half searched until she found him, where and when she allegedly obliged him to rise to the occasion?

The third month saw him clambering up onto the roof and hauling the ladder up after him while the bearded lady searched in vain?

All the ladies denigrating oversexed males should be exposed to the same level of testosterone fueled sexual appetite, before they start lambasting normal sexual appetites in adult males!
Alan B.

Too bad if you're later found to be innocent.

At least we can be assured that they never ever make administrative errors in government departments and include a wrong name.

Perhaps they should also post warning signs outside Churches saying that minors should enter at their own risk.