Sex trafficking and months of rape ARE NOT SEX. This headline is a disaster.

I doubt there is a reason to avoid it. I just googled “age of consent El Salvador” (18 years) and “age of consent Virginia” (18 years, although the first link says 15). ETA: the stories may not have used the word “rape” because the charges are sex trafficking and sex tourism, not rape. But I don’t believe that the…

Really fucking sick of Jezebel, of all places, calling this bullshit “sex.”

raping, not having sex with

People like you are the reason why she likely spent most of the last 500 days blaming herself for what happened to her, just like other rape victims do. Feeling angry towards herself, instead of towards her abuser. “I shouldn’t have worn such revealing clothing.” “I shouldn’t have gotten drunk.” “I should have asked…

That’s exactly what youre doing.

But??

You can police every aspect of your speech, you can wear the right things, you can get all the degrees and expertise, you can write the most fucking eloquent and heartbreaking courtroom statement and still there are men who will not hear you because they just don’t listen to women.

Fresno here! Yeah, Stockton sucks. It just... Sucks... It’s not Stocktons fault though, this whole valley sucks in ways. I mean it’s 105 degrees 7 months of the year and lately the pollen count has been so high the tweaks are trying to convert their meth back to sudafed.

“Some people are like, I want to go to Haiti, and I want to go to Thailand, and I want to get orphans, and I want to get prostitutes off the street. I realized that my heart was to help beautiful people. This is my mission.”

You are complaining about drawing lines at certain ages while saying it’s ok to draw a line at twelve. How inconsistent.

“My daddy thinks I’m fine” wasn’t a good reason for Amy Winehouse not to go to rehab, and it isn’t a good reason for you to marry the guy who molested you.

I’m sorry, but LOL. That is literally the whole point of grooming, to make the kid think it’s consensual and to not feel “groomed”. I’m genuinely happy you don’t feel like a victim, but he was absolutely a predator.

“Why God, why have you wrought this plague upon us?!”\

All of these awful stories about adults grooming and sexually abusing children and teens has really made me think; how many of us knew girls growing up who were being groomed and raped by men in their late teens and 20s? How many of us thought they were so cool and mature with their “real adult relationships” or were…

Think of it this way...this is an unusual story, people were punished for harming this girl, and the general consensus of people reading about it is one of disgust. That was not always the case. That is not the case in some parts of the world right now. Things are getting better, but slowly.

When I was in high school, a girl in my freshman gym class was married. Apparently her mother had found out that she was sleeping with some 20something dude the summer before high school started and insisted that they get married or she’d have him arrested. The girl seemed cool with it at the time, and we were all in…

We are so overdue for a plague

Brazilian here. Although the article is factually correct, I think it would be useful to expand the information a bit, in order to get more context. Since I already sort of did that with my comment in the article about the Italian woman burnt alive by an ex-boyfriend, here it goes:

A very dear friend was abused by her ex-husband. Despite bruises and marks proving that she had been assaulted, the cops laughed and joked with her ex and told my friend that if she wanted to press charges, they’d have to press charges against her two because it “takes two to fight”.