Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sex laws

Sex Laws
My opinion on sex and marital laws.
I feel for a large part that Sex laws and marital laws for the most part are an example of how the government oversteps its authority. Who and how people are married and divorced should be left to the religious leaders. The only need for court intervention should be for property and paternity disputes, other laws that are included but in no way exclusive are the monogamy law, the ban on homosexual marriages and the dictation of who cannot marry. These are for the most part religious issues not issues of governing. The government should outlaw any laws that govern morality as this is not it place. Laws for coexistence safety and government support are the limits the government should impose on itself. Frankly along with this the government should also clean up its law books. Laws that are no longer imposed should be removed for practicality. For example in 2006 a man shot and killed 6 American Natives in South Dakota and got off free because the government never bother to remove a law that stated that anytime more than 4 Native Americans were seen together that they could be shot, because this constituted a war party. Needless to say that law outlived its necessity by over a century. Needless to say the law has been removed and the person in question did get 20 years for his breaking several other laws in the process of the murders.
There are many states that have old laws on the book that are often overlooked because the outlived their purpose, most marital and sex laws are just as pointless. Who cares how Mrs. Brown does it with her husband, although there are still states and towns that dictate the proper way to have sex. Some places enforce them other places just ignore them but they are still there and can be invoked at the whim of an idiot.
The only sex and marital laws that should exist are those that protect children, one to prescribe the age of consent and those that describe what constitutes the various types of rape and the punishment of the conviction for such an offense. As for marital laws the requirement of registration of a marriage/ divorce and the process of settling disputes of property and paternity.
Even child support should be dropped for a more direct version. A parent that doesn’t have custody of the children has a choice, be part of the child’s/children’s life and pay support or walk away to never have anything to do with them. Motherhood is a choice as is father hood, if a child makes its way into the world the woman chose to be a mother, only by commitment a providing support of a child makes a man a father. When a woman chooses to have the child she made her commitment a man should not be forced to give the same commitment because of what the woman chose, however this also leaves the choice of whether or not to have the child completely up to the woman.

Consent

Consent
A concise revision of my opinion on consent.
Laws vary state to state on who can consent to various things. In my opinion there should be one age of consent. One of the major issues with consent is sex with minors. My question is how many sexual teenagers are charged with this. For the government to say minors can only consent to sex with minors is discrimination. What the government needs to do is make a law that only people of a certain age and above can consent to sex.
This would free the courts case load of cases that shouldn’t really be there. It has been said that after the age of thirteen a child has learned everything they are going to from their parents and from that point on is putting into practice what they have learned and experimenting for themselves. If parents took responsibility for what their children know of the world and sex there would be fewer teens having sex and the age of the partner would be of no consequence.
The second point would be the nature of human beings. A majority of the males in human society align better with females that are younger than themselves. Generally it is only of two to five years difference although it is still there. By current laws 19 and 20 year old adults cannot pursue females because by average of 3 years what comes natural has been deemed illegal.
There are rare incidences that the difference is closer to 10 to 15 years, when it comes to love age has no definite ages, but what of those who would use an innocent young woman? Simple, there is already a law that covers that ground for all, it is statutory rape. Statutory rape does cover manipulating someone into sexual acts that they would not consider otherwise. This may take a guardian to note and bring up to authorities when this case happens but it sole basis is on behavior and action not just age.
The reason for the natural inclination of the age difference is maturity. Woman mature quicker than men, to be with someone of the same maturity level or a needed maturity level causes the desire for a person of a different age.
Personally I would say the law should give the freedom of consent to people who are somewhere between 14 to 16 and older, the exact of where in that three year range it should be I would leave up to the government to argue out and preferably do a study to determine at which age a teen knows themselves well enough to give consent.