Okay so I read the news often and most times it is very similar in nature- health scare here, crime here, unfortunate school shooting there- but this time I can honestly say that I do not know what to do with this.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/09/kissing.minors.ap/index.html
In Virginia the state legislators passed a law that said French kissing a minor younger than 13 will get you registered as a sex offender. Okay...now I dont really understand why someone would want to kiss a kid and I do believe that sex offenders are out in communities like sewer rates, but Kissing. I probably would be a lot more freaked out if I was a parent, but Kissing. I can understand touching, I can understand rape, but I'm just not getting the kissing thing. Yes it's gross really really gross but again I'm just not getting it.
That being said I think a lot of times people get the label of sex offender for things that should not be attributed to sex offender status. I know there are people who have gotten sex offender status for dating someone a few years younger and slept with them and family members pressed charges, but I don't know of any case that just had to do with kissing only minus the one in the article. And I do know arousal starts usually with kissing, but I'm just kinda confused with this thing.
What do you guys think? Should that be given sex offender status.
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You said that it's gross. I think it's gross, too. And let's face it, if someone is going to French a 13, they're probably going to do other things, too. Yes, part of me thinks the term "sex offender" is a bit strong for the act, but if it discourages people from Frenching 13 year olds, all the better.
Although I don't see how they'll manage to enforce this one. I hear frivolous lawsuits . . .
See I was thinking that too and I was wondering if it would be adopted by other states in the first place. I know that most sex offender laws are state decided but there are federal mandates for status that has to be complied with and I'm not sure if that would go under those.
I think that sex offender might be a little too much, but there should be something done about it. Kissing could lead to much worse actions, and by stopping it with kissing they could prevent some of it. It would be pretty tough to enforce though.