covet premarital sex.
Really. You can’t make this stuff up.
Well, you can. But it’s troothy.
It does make this post by Eugene Volokh on a 10-year sentence for a 17-year-old boy having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl seem even more of a travesty, though. Time to reread Measure for Measure.
Time to reread Measure for Measure.
POMPEY
Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the
youth of the city?
ESCALUS
No, Pompey.
POMPEY
Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to’t then.
CHORUS
A figo for thy japes! Marry, get thee gone! When is Geoffrey coming back, anyway?
Pre-marital? That would mean that they also would want to get married. No, I think the word they were looking for is “recreational”.
Now that’s just wrong.
I blame Bill Clinton.
But then, I still haven’t gotten over that impersonal snub from Nixon in ‘68 – but my payback on him was indeed sweet.
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I covet it as well, though lately I’d settle for a little of the post-marital variety.
I was talking to my wife about the 10 year prison term that 17 year old guy got in Georgia and when she found out 1) there were four high school boys, 2) who got “serviced” by a drunk and out of control young lady, and 3) it was video taped–responded that 10 years was not enough time. She said if it was our daughter she would have killed them all (and of course, thinking of it that way I had to agree with her–at least emotionally).
My wife is no prude, but she has a point. When I read some of the exchanges between the defendant and the prosecutor at the trial–I think that young man sunk himself to that jury. I still think the law is wrong, but it seems an overly cocky defendant and some poor defense legal strategy backfired.
Context is everything, isn’t it? I was ready to stand up for the 17 yr old until I got this bit of extra context. My image of Romeo and Juliet getting a little carried away on a moon-bathed balcony just exploded all to hell.
I think part of the problem is semantics. Bill Clinton was right. It all depends on what the definition of sex is. This has as much relationship to the passion of Romeo and Juliet as a fart has to the Gettysburg Address. How can the two both be included under the same concept?
We have the phrase “making love”, and we have the word “fucking” to describe the sort of sex that falls short of making love. I don’t think we have a word for anything less than fucking. Ten years for a 17 yr old making love to a 15 yr old would be way harsh. It might even be a bit harsh for a 17 yr old fucking a 15 yr old. But for getting her drunk, and video taping her performance as the pivot point for a four-way circle jerk, it seems about right.
Your right: 97% of a married man is married. The other 3% isn’t.