Why are there so many pedophiles?

[Kevin_Lowe]

Well, you know, if she was a former model, it's alright, although that might be a little tricky to codify into law.

Here in Queensland you can legally have sex at sixteen, so this story makes me sad and very angry. I can't see any reason why a sane, moral society should lock a woman up because she had consensual sex with a sixteen year old boy, and I'm damned sure that there is no hard evidence such sexual encounters cause any harm (unless she gets knocked up or gives him an STD).

I hope everyone involved in prosecuting her loses their exterior genitals in a horrifically painful gardening accident.

To Euromutt:I'm on record here as believing that there is not a solid scientific basis for existing laws that criminalise genuinely consensual sex with sexually mature, underage people. Maybe those laws are a good idea and maybe they aren't, but the evidence isn't there to support them. I'm also on record here as saying that I'm agnostic as to whether the best age of consent to set by law is thirteen (as it is in Spain), sixteen (in many other places) or somewhere in between, due to the lack of the aforementioned evidence.

Further, I think given the lack of such evidence of harm that it's pretty silly to waste finite government resources paying police to pretend to be sexually receptive thirteen year old girls on the internet.

However even given all that, I still think an adult who is trying to pick up thirteen year old girls on the internet when they know that behaviour is illegal probably has a lot wrong with them and if I were you I'd seriously consider getting new friends.

 

[Dancing David]

But she could be charged as an adult and put in prison were she to shoot him in the head because he refused to have sex with her.

Ah yes the "Monsters R Them" law.

 

[Dancing David]

The issue of consent is one of legal maturity and therefore the subject of legislation, having worked in a middle school, I would say that most thirteen year olds are not mature enough, that many sixteen years old are and that there are some who never learn to make a reasoned judgement.

 

[pgwenthold]

Anecdotally- guys can be very vain. And often "hit on" women way, way out of their league. Women that you are amazed they would even think about trying with.

That's my theory why the "To Catch a Predator" victims would believe a stunning 13-year-old would want to have sex with them.

I could be wrong. Maybe they just aren't very smart. Or just aren't suspicious by nature. Or haven't heard of stings.

There are guys who show up on "To Catch a Predator" and actually RECOGNIZE THE HOST OF THE SHOW!!!! Because they've seen the show...