Apparently it is now a crime in Oregon for a woman to let a teenage boy's head rest on her breast in any fashion.
While we're at it, there is a push now to include any sex offender, fourteen and older, on a national registry of sex offenders. In that article, it describes what the family of a sixteen year old went through when he had a sexual relationship with a thirteen year old girl. She said she was sixteen, and he had no way to verify that, but that didn't stop him from becoming a sex offender, and having all sort of vigilantism committed against him and his family. If they were my neighbors, and I witnessed that, I'd have gone over there and put the fear of God into them for behaving like that. The son's no pedophile, just a horny kid who got lied to. You behave like that toward him and his family, you deserve to have some pain come your way.
This has got to be one of the best quotes ever to describe how messed up the way that universities handle sex can be:
The baby boomers who demanded the dismantling of all campus rules governing the relations between the sexes now sit in dean's offices and student-counseling services. They cannot turn around and argue for reregulating sex, even on pragmatic grounds. Instead, they have responded to the fallout of the college sexual revolution with bizarre and anachronistic legalism. Campuses have created a judicial infrastructure for responding to postcoital second thoughts more complex than that required to adjudicate maritime commerce claims in Renaissance Venice.
There is something to be said for the argument that if you just wait until marriage, you probably won't face these problems. For most people that actually works, but the system does not have enough failsafes built into it to protect young men who are the victims of a lying teenage girl or woman. Where is the recognition that if a woman cannot consent while drunk, that a man cannot understand consent either? How about the punishment for the girl in the case mentioned above? She deceived him into committing a crime. At 13, she is old enough to be expected to obey the law, and be held accountable for it.
I find myself being increasingly pushed into a sympathy for the legal system created by the Old Testament. Modern secular America is often truly godless in the way that it metes out "justice" to criminals. It executes people on circumstantial evidence, convicts men of rape with no evidence whatsoever of coercion, and provides no meaningful punishment for corruption in the legal system or perjury. Despite its harshness in many areas, the Mosaic Law at least is not as blood-thirsty or outright cruel as modern secular law can be in the way that it often prefers to turn offenders into social lepers, rather than punish them severely and get it over with.
The OT law was harsh at times, but it was also completely just, as one would expect coming from God Himself. It was harsh when needed because the Lord knew of the need to squash bad behaviour at it's beginnings.
Not to mention the fact that the requirement to have two credible witnesses, and the severe punishments for perjury lead to much greater control over the process than what we have today. Can you imagine our prosecutors today having to get two credible witnesses, who could be summarily executed for perjury by the judge if they perjured against an innocent person, in order to execute someone for murder?
I think such a system kicks ass compared to what we deal with today. Our laws are so all over the place, they look like they were designed by a committee of ADHD-addled teenage nerds snorting cocaine.
That pretty much sums it up.