Ugh. I'm not talking about the physical act. I'm talking to what came before it. That was why I used "courting". Scream "rape" as much as you want, but BEFORE the physical act presumably came TALKING of some sort, which I cannot refer to as "rape" because there is no court of law that would charge him with rape if…

Thanks. Maybe I should have followed through with a career in journalism, but I probably would have blown my brains out years ago.

Ok, then what word would you use that does not make assumptions based on information you don't have? I don't know that he was specifically grooming her. I don't know if they had a "romance" leading up to the point. I don't know if he blackmailed her with grades. I know that the word "courtship" in and of itself…

I dunno. Maybe I'm used to trying to interpret shitty writing? Or maybe I'm just inserting what the person should have said, maybe was trying to say, but maybe was just thinking about chicken nuggets instead.

First off... people can't have it both ways that we "blame and terrorize the victim to the point of suicide" and "that author is an ass for suggesting that society's reaction after the case started in involved in her suicide". Anecdote: When I was a kid I was the victim of some pretty terrible crap at the hands of a…

In my old state, a 25 year old college student sleeping with any age of teacher at the college would be an offense.

Courtship, grooming, whatever. Look up synonyms in the dictionary. I've seen nothing that said that he tossed her on a bed and ravaged her, so there was obviously something leading up to the act of sex. I haven't read anything that actually mentioned one way or the other, and personally I don't care. Would I agree…

What I'd take away from that line (at least, what I'd take away that's constructive), is that if the current laws and reactions from society aren't working to deter or treat these issues and the individuals involved when those individuals are religious leaders (people who are supposedly in their profession due to…

9 minutes for the first responding statement that is nothing but "rape-apologist". A new record.

"And the rehabilitation rate of abusers is zero percent."

Ugh. I get where you're coming from, but that is such a bullshit opinion that it's impossible to ignore. "A whyyy-it guy get sentenced to community service, but tha black man be getting his ass thrown in jail fo LYFE." It's just a ridiculous over simplification of a belief that mirrors the idea that minorities are…

Call me jaded, but while I don't defend what the guy is accused of doing (I will wholeheartedly, without any evidence, believe that he's a complete scumbag of a human being), but I really do have a hard time feeling very bad for a girl that was "blackmailed" with the promise of money and fame, let alone was strung…

A bit, but I think that for legality's sake you'd have to have the woman (presumably the woman) do something bad enough while she's faking a pregnancy to get charged with fraud and then the person selling the pee-stick charged with accessory to fraud.

Hmm.... now I'm wondering which is worse. Someone pulling it off within the time frame, or someone pulling it off too late and then just having... "Random Pointless Tried To Keep My Man" baby...

I'm positive I've seen it over the years. Though you got me curious, so I searched "toilet" in the Uncle Henry's site (NE wanted/swap/sale periodical), and the 2nd result is a used toilet from a remodeled bathroom.

I feel I'm definitely going to hell for thinking if he was a big enough douchbag... that's kinda evil-brilliant.

To be fair, this is "selling bodily fluids" in the same way that selling a used toilet is. Gross, but not illegal, and not really "bodily fluids".

Nope. They CAN turn positive after a length of time, but it's not a given.

This must be done. There must be video. The internet demands it.

The thing I don't get... the few times my wife has felt the need to take a test she's wanted me to be present. I think I'd be a little confused if I just had a positive test sprung on me. And since we're not currently trying to have a kid, I'm sure we'd be taking another one together anyhow.