It all sounds like the worst rumors I have heard about America. I wouldn't want to copy it one bit. Especially as Jonathan Haidt et al (probably rightly) are sounding the alarm over kids getting depressed from being overprotected.
I guess I'm making things less clear through using an example of the rape of an underage girl, when I'm mostl…
It all sounds like the worst rumors I have heard about America. I wouldn't want to copy it one bit. Especially as Jonathan Haidt et al (probably rightly) are sounding the alarm over kids getting depressed from being overprotected.
I guess I'm making things less clear through using an example of the rape of an underage girl, when I'm mostly talking about ways to decrease sexual coercion of adult women (which is much more common). The reason why I used this example is simply that it is very good and unusually well-written (Samantha Geimer was helped by a professional writer). Good and honest descriptions of non-violent rape are scarce, for obvious reasons.
Statistics say that most rape victims are young adult women. I assume that sexual coercion mostly happens in places where it would be considered legitimate to have sex: Appartments, outdoors clearly out of view of other people. For that reason, my only proposition was that adult men and women who haven't had the time to get to know each other a bit should avoid the very places where people have sex. I think that such a small measure would reduce the amount of sexual coercion rather drastically. My aim was never to eliminate sexual coercion for any age-group: that can't be done.
>>I think they just figured he'd stop at making out/some heavy petting or photographing some material for future masturbation and not actually rape her.
They definitely didn't. They were upset that he took topless photos of her. If nothing else, having sex with someone less than 15 years old is forbidden in Europe just like in America. The vast majority of European men respect that law.
Then America is big, and European-style things happen there too. Like the Aaron Knoedel case. Knoedel was acquitted despite proof that he had had very long nightly telephone conversations with a student. He claimed he was just supporting a student with troubles and that doing so was the norm at the school where he worked. Obviously, many people found that explanation plausible.
It all sounds like the worst rumors I have heard about America. I wouldn't want to copy it one bit. Especially as Jonathan Haidt et al (probably rightly) are sounding the alarm over kids getting depressed from being overprotected.
I guess I'm making things less clear through using an example of the rape of an underage girl, when I'm mostly talking about ways to decrease sexual coercion of adult women (which is much more common). The reason why I used this example is simply that it is very good and unusually well-written (Samantha Geimer was helped by a professional writer). Good and honest descriptions of non-violent rape are scarce, for obvious reasons.
Statistics say that most rape victims are young adult women. I assume that sexual coercion mostly happens in places where it would be considered legitimate to have sex: Appartments, outdoors clearly out of view of other people. For that reason, my only proposition was that adult men and women who haven't had the time to get to know each other a bit should avoid the very places where people have sex. I think that such a small measure would reduce the amount of sexual coercion rather drastically. My aim was never to eliminate sexual coercion for any age-group: that can't be done.
>>I think they just figured he'd stop at making out/some heavy petting or photographing some material for future masturbation and not actually rape her.
They definitely didn't. They were upset that he took topless photos of her. If nothing else, having sex with someone less than 15 years old is forbidden in Europe just like in America. The vast majority of European men respect that law.
Then America is big, and European-style things happen there too. Like the Aaron Knoedel case. Knoedel was acquitted despite proof that he had had very long nightly telephone conversations with a student. He claimed he was just supporting a student with troubles and that doing so was the norm at the school where he worked. Obviously, many people found that explanation plausible.