DEAD ON, BRO!! Case stated beautifully across the entire front of this war!

What can be done to get the laws changed. My 24 year old son is on the registry for a bad decision – nothing violent or unconsensual . He has no place to live (he can’t live with me because I live too close to a school). He can’t find work and has been told by probation if he registers as homeless he will face additional charges. So many young lives are being ruined — politicians won’t take up this cause because it’s not popular and they won’t be re-elected. It is hopeless and unfair.

Anon, I think you misunderstand me. I hate these laws, and my detestation is manifest and unequivocal. My point is that I fear most of the people who oppose these laws and write this website and others only do so because they or a “loved one” was charged with a nonviolent and victimless and malum prohibitum crime, whether “guilty” or innocent, and subjected to all the draconian and iniquitous and Orwellian penalites. I’d like to know if they supported these laws, or were ignorant or indifferent, before they or a “loved one” were victimized.

Fundamentally and seminally, feminists are culpable. In regard to sex crimes as opposed to “domestic violence, CSA victimologists of both sexes and feminists wrote and lobbied for the enactment of these draconian and iniquitous and Orwellian Laws. But the U.S. is not a matriarchy, ruled by feminists, as MRAs absurdly contend. It’s a patriarchy and plutocracy that is still largely ruled and controlled by white male billionaires and millionaires, including a majority of senators and nearly half of all congressmen. And a majority of state legislators are still white males. So male politicians are largely responsible. They’re the ones who passed these laws. Feminists didn’t force them to vote for and enact these insane laws. They had the power to oppose these laws.

As for adult men and women who have love affairs and dalliances with young men and women under age 18 and their vilification as “rapists” and “pedophiles” and “child molesters, and also “sexual predators,” even if their “victims” were the aggressors and initiators and, in respect to women teachers, even if they raped or sexually assaulted their definitional “victimizers”: Imagine if a majority of billionaires and millionaires were critical of this “moral panic” and witch-hunt and the “cruel and unusual” laws and policies that this mass hysteria and new-age inquisition has engendered. Imagine if one billionaire -just one!- opposed such laws and owned a cable news network like Fox or CNN or MSNBC. The opponents and critics of such laws would have as much power and influence as the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew, ad nauseum. If so, commonsense and realism and sanity might be restored.

Michael, asking us that question is nonsense…

Alot of this abuse is poor parenting or negligence or raised by a single parent. The minor I was with did share me one of these things. Those parents don’t want to admit it either.

Now for the “sex-offenders”, I would hope the law would take things in consideration like if there was any abuse in families or relationships or with the minor.

This is as far as I am going to write. At the end of the day, I have to worry about my future and what I am going to do with my life after this mess. Not this “what if it is your own child”.

Truer words were never spoken, my friend. Read Dr. Martin Klein’s book “The WAR on Sex” in our country. Speaking truth to power is always dangerous, especially in court. Legal authority operates on a basal carpentry level. Every argument by any sex offender is seen as a nail and gets hammered down.

You are so “dead-on” with your analysis..for the simple crime of curiosity I did seven years in prison, sent there by a prosecutor who was aided by her buddy, the public defender, who misunderstood her job definition as defending the public from this “dirty old man” and who didn’t advocate for me, but advocated for the prosecution by forcing me to plead out and end up convicted by a federal judge.

DRK, the actual reality is far more nuanced and complex and far less simplistic and Manichaean than your MRA-like jeremiad proclaims. I suggest you go to “cats and tags” and click on Wisconsin and read my three comments under “Who Should be Feared in Cottage Grove” on the Cassandra Sorenson-Grohall and Abigail Simon outrages and travesties. The overwhelming number of innocent and harmless victims are of course male but hundreds of women have also had their lives blighted and destroyed by these insane and draconian and Orwellian laws. I’d love to hear your response to what I say in these comments.

Koren, Carol, Maggy, Angel, and many others with similar experiences: did you support these draconian and Orwellian laws -sentences of months in jail and years in prison for first-offenders convicted of a nonviolent and usually victimless and malum prohibitum felony, a “crime” that’s a legal act in dozens of other nations, including European countries, i.e. de facto consensual sex between adult of both sexes and young men and women under age 16 or 18; years of punitive “sex-offender treatment,” to “treat” him/her of what exactly, heterosexuality (they’re not rapists or pedophiles)?; years of quasi-totalitarian post-incarceration supervision; and registration from 15-20 years to life as uniquely dangerous and degenerate criminals- before a “loved one” became of victim of these laws and policies?

If the situation were reversed and your 14- or 15-year old daughter had a love affair or dalliance or “one-night stand” with an adult male of 19 or 20 or a teacher, for example, what would be your response? Would you then support all these draconian and Orwellian punishments. Is your opposition to rather than support for these laws purely a matter of personal experience?