Do we cherish our MILFs, or do we punish them?

I would have been one of the other three, I just know it.

God damn activist judges trying to legislate taste and morality...

Johnson also said in that interview that she resented what she described as a double standard for men and women. "I think what I always had a hard time with is guys who do it are considered studs," she said. "A girl does it, she's considered a slut." "

what a scholar. finally, someone points out how in the UNITED STATES OF HYPOCRISY, older men are getting away with meth-fueled sex with drunk 15 year old girls. or as i like to call it: "Wednesday"

And really, here's the problem. Thirty years isn't that much, not if you want to imagine the law as something doesn't differentiate based on sex: if some older guy had been getting various high school girls high and having sex with them, we wouldn't be surprised to see the sentences for three statuatory rapes and delinquency-of-minors and so on add up to a few decades. On the other hand, we do live in a world that still has gender roles and gender expectations -- it's just that it's painfully difficult to imagine a form of law that can adequately respond to that in cases like this.

This is one of the things about statuatory rape in general: the laws can't really distinguish between really fucked-up manipulative statuatory rape and relationships that are odd and iffy and unhealthy but don't necessarily cause so much more damage to anyone than a legal unhealthy relationship. (Not saying that's very often the case, just that it's the best-case scenario here; e.g. a college kid who sleeps with a consenting high-school girl may well be doing less damage than an adult who emotionally abuses his adult wife.) But it also makes sense that the law wouldn't distinguish on those grounds, because the whole idea is that minors don't have the ability to distinguish on those grounds, and that puts all the power in the hands of the adult.

Which is also why we don't try minors as adults, ever!

huh huh swallow.