Word: consents
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Opponents of this view point out that it is extremely difficult to determine what constitutes "seduction" or even genuine "consent" between adults. Sir Patrick Devlin, formerly a judge on Britain's highest court, argues that the distinction between private and public morality is obscure and indefensible. Many U.S. jurists agree, among them New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Hofstadter, who believes that "discretion and privacy" cannot make the difference "between a wrongful and a lawful act"-as, for instance, in the case of incest. He supports a compassionate attitude but feels that "to legalize homosexual conduct...
...answer is that Hernandez was guilty of statutory rape-intercourse with a girl who is under the legal age of consent. Hernandez went on trial...
Predictably, he protested that he honestly believed his girl to have been over 18, the California age of consent. But all the prosecution needed was that one damning fact-she was three months under 18. As a result, Hernandez was convicted, and faced up to 50 years in prison...
...from seduction, says Myers. Indeed, modern permissiveness in feminine speech, dress and deportment may well make such laws all the more important. But what if the girl is experienced or deliberately lies about her age? Along with having no defense, argues Myers, a man confronts "unrealistically high" ages of consent in most states. Delaware, to be sure, sets the age at seven, but in most other states it ranges from 16 to 18-and up to 21 in Tennessee. For statutory rape, a man can get 30 years in Connecticut, 99 years in Montana, and life imprisonment in Indiana...
...living apart from his wife and family. Because Sophie seems to him like a piece of important information he must acquire, Tancredi sets out to seduce her. Sophie finally, almost wearily, succumbs. Then the cool lovers discover that they are madly in love-but briefly, advisedly and with muted consent. Eventually they part...