Sex laws that make sense at last

[fluffymark]

The government is finally introducing a new long overdue Sexual Offences Bill, sweeping away all the old archaic and odd sex laws, and replacing them with ones that appear to make sense.
With luck, the new laws appear to be not only gender equal, but also sexual orientation equal, and use mutual consent as the main basis to their decision on what is legal. They've finally seen the light. Hurrah!

Oh, and to completely change the subject, theres a total lunar eclipse occuring from about 3am to 6am in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Yay!

Comments

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Well, they could do that. But this brings it down to the hypocrisy thing; it is perfectly legal for me to kill an animal for the pleasure of eating it, provided that I kill it in a humane fashion. While I might feel that someone who kills an animal humanely for the purpose of fucking it has an odd choice of leisure pursuits, I can't say that their activity is objectively worse than mine.

The trouble with challenging this outdoor sex thing is that you will get "for the sake of the children" thrown at you, because as we know children can watch as much violence as they like but never so much as learn of the existence of sex, because, er, violence is quite rare in real life and sex is something that nearly all of them will participate in at some point.

[fluffymark]

Looked at from that point of view, the bestiality laws make sense, I guess.

As for the sex/violence thing - it does seem odd - the current additude showing violence but now sex impliece violence is a good thing but sex is a bad thing is far from ideal. However, it may be more in tune to what children are used to in real life - a fair number of children are bullied, so are used to violence anyway, and minors aren't supposed to be having sex. I've no idea what the solution to sex education of minors is, but both extremes of outright denial of the existance of sex, and the opposite extreme of letting them view sexual eplicit films are both not good ideas.