What is Reddit's opinion of Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States?

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Oh I just noticed the second paragraph in your previous comment, BTW.

> I’ve also never heard of that correlation between feminism and antipedophilia

As SUNY College professor Carolyn E. Cocca documents in <em>Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States</em>, feminists have been largely responsible for these antipedophilic laws:

> Through detailed case studies of three states as well as quantitative analysis, chapters 2, 3, and 4 explore the influence of public opinion, interest groups, and legislators vis-a-vis three sets of amendments to statutory rape laws that have been enacted over the past 30 years; (1) age-span provisions in which one partner must be a certain number of years older for the crime to be prosecuted at the felony level, (2) gender-neutral language to include females as perpetrators and males as victims; and (3) prosecuting the partners of pregnant female teens as a means to lower welfare rolls. While the first two sets of changes were spearheaded by feminists as part of a broader program of rape law reform in the 1970s and 1980s, the third set of changes in the 1990s was pushed by religious conservatives and others located more to the right on the political spectrum. > > (p. 6, bold added)

> should have known that the 15 year old wasn't mature enough

How do you know she's not mature enough? This is why the law is broken, it has no way to look at the situation on an individual basis, and IMO is should. If a 14 year old has the hots for the high school quarterback, her gymnastics coach, or some politician or CEO, who gives a shit if she chases him down and fucks his brains out, let alone punish the guy for HER sexual desire?

Put simply, Age of Consent laws are nothing more than a feminist lock on female sexuality, with conservative backing and govt endorsement, with the effect of driving up the cost of sex for men in general--all in the name of minimizing births to unwed teenage mothers. Most people have no idea why we even have AOC laws. Here's a hint: the tl;dr version: old bitter women were tired of their husbands dumping them for the hot young girl next door, and the state not wanting to have to support bastards if it doesn't have to. That really is it in a nutshell.

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