JAILBAIT

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Tatch? I don’t want to tell you how to do your “sexual orientation” or anything but if you homosexuals ever want to delink the whole homosexual-pedophilia concept, then this is a REALLY lousy way to go about it:

Peter Tatchell, an activist and LGBT rights advocate, tells Big Think that the best way to protect our children from sexual abuse is paradoxically to give them more sexual freedom. Age of consent laws vary from state to state in the U.S., with the majority being 16 and some ranging as high as 18, but Tatchell says they should all be lowered to 14.

Right around the beginning of adolescence. Sure, what could possibly go wrong?

“Whether we like it or not, many teenagers have their first sexual experience around the ages of 14 or 15,” says Tatchell.

Whether we like it or not, kids have been known to sneak a pop or two out of Mom and Dad’s liquor cabinet now and then. The solution to that little problem is not offering little bottles of Jack or Beam in school vending machines.

In most states, these sexually-active young people are actually breaking the law and could be convicted as sex-offenders, even if both partners consent.

See adolescence comment above. That there is not consent, Tatch. That there is hormones is what that there is.

In 2008, a 16-year-old boy from Iowa was convicted of “lewd and lascivious acts with a child” for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, even though the two were dating at the time, she had lied about her age, and she wasn’t pressing charges. For the rest of his life he will have to register on a sex offenders list alongside child sex abusers.

Action? Meet consequences.

Criminalizing underage sex is not the way to protect our kids, says Tatchell: “If we want to protect young people, and I do, the best way to do this is not by threatening them with arrest, but by giving them frank, high quality sex and relationship education from an early age.

Gotcha. That would have been an interesting day at Washington Park Elementary way back when. Reading, spelling, recess, arithmetic, lunch, social studies, recess and frank, high-quality sex and relationship education. What’s all this grade-school sex ed supposed to achieve anyway, Tatch?

This includes empowering them with the skills, knowledge and confidence to say no to unwanted sexual advances and to report sex abusers. Compared to the blanket criminalization of sexually-active under-age youth, this empowerment strategy is a more effective way to protect young people from peer pressure and pedophiles.”

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the stupidest thing ever written. “Empowerment,” Tatch? Really? “Empowerment” is going to protect kids from peer pressure? What planet are you from, freakshow?

This sort of education has been going on for years. My friends and I did lots of really dumb things because we thought they were funny. In various ways(“I suppose that if everybody jumped off the Empire State Building, you’d jump too?”), my parents taught me that I was “empowered” to resist peer pressure.

Know something, Tatch? Those lessons didn’t sink in until much later in life.

So not only is your “high quality sex and relationship education” going to produce peer-pressure resistant kids, it’s also going produce kids who can say no to the blandishments of adults who don’t have various hormones racing through their bodies and the various emotional issues related thereto. Don’t see it happening, Tatch.

A higher age of consent actually puts young teens at greater risk of abuse by “reinforcing the idea that young people under 16 have no sexual rights,” Tatchell says.

Um…what?!! What the hell does that even mean?! If young people believe that they shouldn’t have sex until they’re emotionally ready for it, then they’re at greater risk of…being sexually abused? How on earth do you get from A to B? You’re just making crap up now, aren’t you?

“They signal that a young person is not capable of making a rational, moral choice about when to have sex.”

Let’s unpack that a bit, shall we? Tatch thinks that a low age of consent signals to Young PeopleTM that they’re “not capable of making a rational, moral choice about when to have sex.”

I don’t know how it was with anyone reading this but with me, rationality and morality had no effect on my choice whether or not to feel up the rear end of that girl over there or her choice not to spin around and deck me. Hormones did. On the other hand, rationality and morality did enter in to my choice not to have sexual intercourse regardless of what my body wanted me to do.

And pedophiles can manipulate this sexual disempowerment to their advantage. “Guilt and shame about sex also increase the likelihood of molestation by encouraging the furtiveness and secrecy on which abuse thrives,” he adds.

As the Peter Tatchell Non Sequitur Festival rolls merrily on. The fact that you’re a little kid and an adult is sexually abusing you has everything to do with the fact that you were told not to have sexual intercourse until you were older and nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that that adult is a sexual deviant who tells you to keep your mouth shut if you know what’s good for both you and your family.

“Despite what the puritans and sex-haters say, underage sex is mostly consenting, safe, and fun,” Tatchell believes.

For pedophiles and adolescent males wanting to get some. Of course, in Tatchell World, there’ll be the occasional 12-year-old mom now and then but if you want to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs, as they say.

“If there is harm caused, it is usually not as a result of sex, per se, but because of emotional abuse within relationships and because of unsafe sex, which can pass on infections and make young girls pregnant when they are not ready for motherhood.”

Girls? That feeling you’re feeling right now is not guilt. You’re feeling what you’re feeling because that guy who just talked you into the sack forgot his Trojans and is emotionally abusive even though he was unfailingly polite, he kept telling you you were beautiful and you’ve known him for all of an hour and a half.

Next week, I use up the last of my vacation time so I’ll be indolent for about a week and a half. But I may have to see if I can move things up. I”ve got a feeling that I’m going to need to spend three straight days in the bathtub washing off the stench of this one.