Cody Wilson, of 3D-printed gun fame, has been targeted by the State for “sexual assault on a child”. This is a lie.
If it’s consensual, it isn’t “assault”. If it’s a business deal– a trade– it is mutually consensual. He is said to have paid her for sex; that makes it a trade.
But then we get to the part that trips up even supposed liberty-lovers: that she is claimed to be a child.
The girl in question is said to be 16 years old. Very few 16 year-olds are still a child. I doubt very strongly this girl is one of those rare exceptions.
Biologically, childhood ends at puberty; very few people are still biological children at 16 years of age. Mentally it ends somewhat later– some people never mature– but it would be a rare person who is still a mental child at 16.
That doesn’t mean the person who is no longer a child is an adult.
To pretend a person is either a child or an adult is dishonest. No, adolescents are not adults, but neither are they children. They shouldn’t be treated as children, nor considered children.
Biologically, adulthood is reached at about 25 years of age, when the wisdom teeth mature and the prefrontal cortex of the brain finishes developing. The brain development also indicates mental adulthood, and (hopefully) emotional and psychological adulthood. Thank goodness the puritans of the State haven’t (generally) insisted on biological adulthood before considering a person to be an adult.
So, maybe the 16 year-old in question wasn’t an adult, but she almost certainly wasn’t a child, either.
It is said she was a prostitute, and like it or not, that’s going to be the end of mental and emotional childhood no matter the biological reality. This is one reason child prostitution (and child sexual abuse of other kinds) is so horrific– it forces the end of emotional childhood much too early.
I know people want a clear line in the sand, and this causes them to buy into the State’s convenient lie that under 18 equals “child”. That’s no excuse; it is intellectual and ethical laziness.
If Cody Wilson did what he is accused of, it wasn’t smart. But neither was it “assault” or “sex with a child”, and it shouldn’t be a crime.
This is purely a politically motivated charge, and was most likely a set-up from the beginning. Stop supporting Wilson if you feel you must, but don’t turn on him like the true perverts of the State want you to.
Many years ago in my mid twenties ( in the Entertainment business) I was seduced by a very beautiful and SEXUAL, young woman who said, in answer to my questioning, that she was 21 Having young women “come on” to one, in that business, is VERY COMMON and the response of young men, like myself was also typical. Hormones are flowing for both at those ages When she started crying after we had sex, for the first time,one evening, at my apartment, I repeated my question about her age.She then told me she was 17 and had a boyfriend whom… Read more »
I suppose the puritans of the State expect us to insist on “government-issued ID” upon meeting everyone (in order to prove how neccessary such ID is), otherwise we are at the mercy of women who look “old enough” but who might not be. Of course, then if the State wants to entrap us, they can give the woman fake ID, and then tell us we should have been able to spot fake ID… “Ignorance of the law, and fake ID, is no excuse”.
I was fortunate, I believe, in that, she liked me a lot ( and i , her)and knew that she had deceived ,not only her boyfriend, but me.
She also lived at home with her parents who were strong (former?) Russian. immigrants. I have no idea if they were naturalized or not
That ( being a different culture) may have helped also, save my butt because at that time, 17 was still considered being a minor, in the country where I was living at that time………………. Not the U.S.
Decisions,Decisions 🙂