Who Are You Calling A Sex Offender?

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8288]

I want to live in an orderly society, like most people. If a member of my society intends to harm someone, I want that person to be stopped by the police. If that person is found guilty of a crime, I think the punishment (community service, fine, prison) should befit the crime. However, there are particular kinds of crime that I feel are punishable in an arbitrary way in the USA, and those are the crimes of the sexual offender.

When I read news articles about sexual offenders, and their probation requirements, my mind sees images of unshaven men dressed in raincoats hiding behind bushes at the local high school—they’re waiting for the chance to grab a beauty contestant as she walks by (or flash their “goods” to her). But these aren’t the only ones who get the dreaded “sex offender” label. And the range of sexually offensive behaviors that a person can be labeled with seems to grow wider with each passing decade.

The most heinous sexual offenses are rape, child molestation, and sexual trafficking. Other offenses include sexual coercion, physical sexual assaults (such as: pulling someone’s clothes off), statutory rape, and unwanted sexual touching. But should a person be identified as a sex offender for taking nude selfies or urinating in public?

I feel that the basis for making sexual offense laws should be to protect people from types of behavior that actually VICTIMIZES them. And I also feel that those laws should be specifically defined to punish those who show intent to harm. There’s a variety of reasons why someone would urinate in public (An emergency situation!) or take a nude selfie (medical purposes, art project). Besides that, how many of us, in our awkward teen years, knew when it was the right time to “make a move” on a girl during a date? For me, the goodnight kiss in the car was either a thrill or a shame. It would be much worse if it became a “blame.”

If sexually offensive behavior continues to be broadly defined, any one of us could end up in handcuffs for harmless behavior.

Articles such as this…

http://www.businessinsider.com/surprising-things-that-could-make-you-a-sex-offender-2013-10

…make me feel like buying a mountain cabin and isolating myself from humanity.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Anonymous 16]

Paranoia makes a monster out of anything.

[ScarberianMPTGLParticipant 3286]

Well, f~~~, nowadays just talking to or looking in the general direction of one of these broads (unless you somehow meet her ridiculously high and ever-changing standards) is enough to get you thrown in jail as a sex offender. *sigh*

Damnit, where’d my prescription of Fukitol get to?

I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you, all of you, to Go Your Own Way!!

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Another problem is this idea that a victim of a sexual crime is forever traumatised, can not recover, and can no longer live a life of happiness. This is usually trumpeted by feminists and people who have never been the victims of a real sex crime. People can recover and lead full and happy lives but it`s harder when people keep forcing them to carry the victim card.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[TuneoutParticipant]

OK some of those I can see,a 10 year old who abuses younger kids,sleeping with your f~~~ing sister is sick beyond words,’I didn’t know it was Illegal’ is not a
viable excuse IMO.(although is doesn’t say much for the sister either,but hey women aren’t suppose to be as responsible as men esp in criminal matters I guess)

The others though are so puritanical they are reminisant
of the Victorian era.

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[HitmanParticipant]

the definition will broaden as feminist’s get more anti-male laws passed.
they want to criminalize ALL men for something..
it’s a WITCH HUNT by the WITCH’S THEMSELVES..!!!
.
save the actual label of sex offenders for the real thing,
not as a tool to criminalize our gender !

[RennieParticipant]

Not going to change as long as you have hysterics running around looking for ‘sex offenders and “pedophiles” behind every rock and tree and the media producing shows like Law and Order: SVU that constantly pours more fuel on the conflagration.

People don’t even make an effort to define those things as they were intended to be anymore, they just fling them at anyone engaged in behavior they don’t personally approve of.

Waste of time trying to reeducate them because they are either too stupid, or they don’t like the truth, so they refuse to hear it.

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