fuzzis
01-05-2008, 08:52 PM
S. Africa's Teens Give New Law the Kiss-Off (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/05/AR2008010501678.html?hpid=topnews)
Anti-Intimacy Measure Sparks Online Outrage
...Strictly speaking, the law criminalized for those under 16 a remarkably broad range of behavior, including mouth-to-mouth contact and any other form of touching that could cause sexual arousal.
In fact, actual prosecutions of consensual encounters between teenagers under 16 are unlikely under the law, requiring explicit approval from the country's top prosecutor. Authorities said the measure was intended to make it easier to prosecute sexual liaisons between adult men and much younger girls, and assaults on the mentally disabled.
Yet news of the law triggered a backlash among thousands of students armed with little more than computers, Facebook accounts and an acute sense of outrage at what they regarded as the clueless behavior of repressive adults. Many teens also posted pictures of themselves engaged in amorous, but largely PG-rated, exchanges.
"We're young. We need to experiment," Natalie Winston, 12, said before the protest here. "When you're 21, you're old already, and ugly." ...
:laugh::laugh:
The boy has been telling me he's old, and I've been countering by telling him that he can't be old because I'm not almost old. I guess, according to Natalie Winston, he's been right all along. Sorry sweets. :laugh:
Anti-Intimacy Measure Sparks Online Outrage
...Strictly speaking, the law criminalized for those under 16 a remarkably broad range of behavior, including mouth-to-mouth contact and any other form of touching that could cause sexual arousal.
In fact, actual prosecutions of consensual encounters between teenagers under 16 are unlikely under the law, requiring explicit approval from the country's top prosecutor. Authorities said the measure was intended to make it easier to prosecute sexual liaisons between adult men and much younger girls, and assaults on the mentally disabled.
Yet news of the law triggered a backlash among thousands of students armed with little more than computers, Facebook accounts and an acute sense of outrage at what they regarded as the clueless behavior of repressive adults. Many teens also posted pictures of themselves engaged in amorous, but largely PG-rated, exchanges.
"We're young. We need to experiment," Natalie Winston, 12, said before the protest here. "When you're 21, you're old already, and ugly." ...
:laugh::laugh:
The boy has been telling me he's old, and I've been countering by telling him that he can't be old because I'm not almost old. I guess, according to Natalie Winston, he's been right all along. Sorry sweets. :laugh: