Some progress in Virginia

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_DoubtingThomas
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Some progress in Virginia

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Re-post. It is best to start a new topic

Finally some progress in Virginia, but I can't understand why no one talks about how ridiculous and barbaric some of our laws are. Under US laws one in four teenagers are sex offenders, and I think parents should be outrageous and furious at law-makers.

The Virginia Senate on Monday passed a bill intended to keep teenagers who willingly share sexually explicit images with one another from being branded felony sex offenders. The measure, which passed on a bipartisan 35-to-5 vote, would give prosecutors the option to charge “sexting” among minors as a misdemeanor. Under current law, the sender and recipient can be charged with dissemination and possession of child pornography, a felony. That means prosecutors must choose between bringing felony charges or doing nothing, said Sen. William M. Stanley Jr. (R-Franklin), who sponsored the bill with Sen. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax). Stanley said the bill would let prosecutors “do something in the middle, not to end someone’s life before it even begins with a felony conviction that doesn’t fit the crime.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vi ... 1971a331bc

A new study finds

A new data study shows that the number of teenagers sending and receiving sexts is on the rise. The analysis, which was published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that more than one in four teenagers reported that they’d received a sext, defined by the study as a sexually explicit image, video or message that is sent electronically. About 15 percent of people, slightly more than one in seven, reported sending a sext....But authors noted a few troubling indicators: they found 12 percent of people reported that they had forwarded a sext without consent and 8.5 percent said that a sext of theirs had been forwarded without their consent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 71e7d61dc5
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Re: Some progress in Virginia

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pedophile says wha
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Re: Some progress in Virginia

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subgenius wrote:pedophile says wha


I believe the sex offender registry should only be for pedophiles like you

You wrote on Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:43 am

subgenius wrote:As for statutory rape and the hyperbole over age differences, there is no clear rationale/reasoning supporting any restriction on consenting post-pubescent persons engaging in sexual intercourse.
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