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Originally Posted by asshat
...ha...I feel honoured.
I haven't actually read the book, so I'm probably gonna be way off on this. It just reminds of the way statutory rape is dealt with differently for male and females. I'm just thinking of a few specific cases where high schools males slept with their teachers. Even though they were legally obliged to prosecute the female teachers, there was an undercurrent of "thata boy!!" and admiration for the kid that scored with an older woman.(I remember reading that the police officer actually congratulated the kid in this one article).
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i haven't read the book either but i have to comment on this specific part.
the blatant double standard in western society when it comes to statutory rape is appalling. we had the perfect example of this happen in my local area around 2006.
case 1 - a 28 year old female teacher brings a 13 year old male student from her class to her brother's apartment. gets the student drunk, then has a bunch of sex. she originally met him in elementary school.
case 2 - a 33 year old male teacher has a relationship with a 17 year old student who is no longer in his class. he only met her in high school
age of consent is 16.
one of these cases resulted in house arrest, the other in a jail sentence. do i really need to specify who got what sentence?