Frankly, if someone's sexually molesting someone, I don't care how old they are or what their relationship to anyone is, get them locked up and removed from a position to molest. Rehabilitation, certainly, but also lock them up.

Yeah! You go! I'm psyched I got most of the basics out of the way. I'm (likely) double majoring and increasingly it's looking like I'm going to pick up a minor, so I'm so psyched I'm weaseling out of the boring shit.

Intimacy the gold standard of sexuality according to whom? A very select school of psychologists? I think not - perhaps it is the standard for SOME humans, but not all. Human sexuality does not always need to be tied to ANY emotional need to fulfill it - it can be exclusively a physical drive, in some cases. Humans…

I mostly agree with you, but it depends on the courses you take. I took AP tests that would get me out of the freshman seminar/first-year core shit (AP English Lit & Comp, etc), and I definitely think that was a good choice. AP Chinese Literature? Dunno how valuable that is right out of the gate.

But then, I think the same thing happened with the advent of the telephone, if a little different in proportion. No longer did one solely rely on those immediately nearby. You called the sister in Indianapolis. You called the aunt in Maine. You asked everyone. The Internet is just concentrating that crowdsourcing -…

Meanwhile, it also has one hell of an awesome name.

This. This, this, this. And not just those bits. A friend of mine had some issues with using a flavored condom for anal. At least, he informed us later, his nether regions were faintly orange scented.

My high school had pretty decent sex ed for straight people.

HA. HAHA.

Christ, what I wouldn't kill for this option in my hometown's school district. For all kids in general... but especially for queer kids. We had relatively decent sex ed for straight kids (though the teacher was openly pro-abstinence). Then there was me, Token Closeted Dyke, and my buddy Token Gay Guy sitting in the…

My mother described exactly this when I was a wee one; I screamed nearly every hour I was awake. Turns out I had horrible, horrible reflux from GERD. It doesn't always show symptoms, especially in the first few months - I grew and ate just fine until age two. Have you gotten her checked?

Dear home state: Can you please get your shit together? We do not need to take the crazy crown after all the incredibly bad shit that's gone down in the past three or four years.

It wouldn't ameliorate it, is my point. Not only that, but a longer sentence will INCREASE the amount of people taking the trial option, which will gum up the system even more. Pleading guilty is not a big deal to some people when an average sentence for certain serious sex crimes is five years. If it becomes thirty…

Yet the court system will still be clogged up. Overcrowding isn't just a jail issue, it is a systematic flaw. Even if we theoretically don't sentence prostitutes or drug addicts to prison time, we'd still need a court system to assess guilt, etc. A lot of sex offenders plead out and they are allowed to do so because…

So any act that doesn't involve direct contact of a genital plus some other body part is nonsexual? Not so. A person can derive sexual arousal or sexual pleasure from nearly anything, including the act of rocking absent genital stimulation (whether or not there's a Freudian explanation for those fetishes is a whole…

As SOON as I saw the first eleven words of your comment in the preview thing, I thought "lawn flamingo."

" My opinion is, if what the person did is so bad that they are still a danger to society, why are they not still in jail?"

Except statistics do indicate that recidivism rates among violent sex offenders, following research by Langevin, are pretty bad regardless of the rehabilitation received. Violence appears to correspond positively with likelihood of recidivism. That's about a five year old study I'm referencing, and I can't imagine…

Can we just agree that if you wanna assault someone, a garden gnome is the most quintessentially Floridian/surrealistically terrifying weapon to chose?

Hmm. I'm relatively certain we don't.... why? I don't usually go flinging around my early/mid-adolescent sexual history all willy-nilly on the Internet anyway. Maybe it's just a really common fantasy? Who knows.