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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (18741)	7/19/2001 6:23:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

Children are the only minority in my opinion that deserve special protection. So if I right in my private journal about having consensual sex with a 17 year old girl I am subject to castration, but if I write detailed fantaies about violently raping and killing an 18 year old and e-mail them to her I am only subject to a restraining order and some police attention? I agree that children deserve some level of special protection, but someone should not be imprisioned or mutilated for mearly thinking about or writing about having sex with children. If someone actually harms a child or attempts to then they should be subject to a penalty. The special protection I might give children in this area is to define sexual contact as a crime (although I don't think a 21 year old should be sent to prison for having sex with his seventeen year old girlfriend, I think a 17 year old if not an adult is not a child either and is closer to an adult then he or she is to a 9 year old. He may eventually enable himself or someone else to carry out acts of violence against a child thru his own fantasy role playing. It was a private journal not fantasy role playing, and not something he was showing to other people. The journal was discovered in a search of his home. If you are going to apply such a standard to written material about even fictional children then would you ban "books like Judy Blume's "Forever," Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" " (examples taken from nytimes.com. Would you imprison or mutliate someone for writing in detail about sexual abuse that happened to them when they where a child? What if it was part of a personal journal like Brian Dalton's, perhaps in this case written because it helps them come to terms with the abuse? Tim