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[eirias]

Inspired by a sex scandal and some conversations elsewhere, here's my first poll. I'm just curious what the norms for these things are in my social group. I'd prefer only people I actually know to fill this out, but I'm leaving it open to all so that you can fill it out anonymously if you choose.

[Poll #451985]

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I'm either not understanding you clearly or you're not making sense. I'm not sure which. Who can post in a poll is independently settable versus who can see the results. She set the results to none, so even if it were friends-only answering, she would still be the only one who could see the results, and so it'd be equally anonymous if people used their own accounts. A dummy account is the only way I can think of to thus answer anonymously.

Anyhow, I do fully support hitting people who say that young people cannot know real love.

Also, my views don't fully fit into the textbox. Basically, I feel that it shouldn't be set by age. And I'm open to the possibility of a situation with a person of almost any age being able to engage in something I'd call sex that would be perfectly acceptable. However, I do feel that for practical reasons we need to set limits that may, every now and then, unfairly make a moral action illegal because otherwise we would have no way to protect against vasts amounts of immoral actions.

Just as it is sometimes completely acceptable to have sex with someone who is drunk or asleep, but unless consent was gained in advance (either in a general or specific case sense) it should be illegal. Having sex with someone who was far too drunk to give informed consent with no prior consent should not be condoned just because in some cases the person will guess correctly about the person's wishes, attitudes, desires, etc.