Transcript: Graffiti on a wall reads: The concept of virginity was created by men who thought their penises were so important it changes who a woman is.

  • velma@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    What does statutory rape have to do with virginity? Very interesting edit of this passage from Wikipedia by the way. Here’s the full passage on what some sex-positive feminists believe about statutory rape according to your link from Wikipedia:

    There is debate among sex-positive feminists about whether statutory rape laws are a form of sexism.[41] As illustrated by the controversy over “The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could” from the Vagina Monologues, some sex-positive feminists do not consider all consensual activity between young adolescents and older people as inherently harmful. There has been debate among feminists about whether statutory rape laws benefit or harm teenage girls and about whether the gender of participants should influence the law’s treatment of sexual encounters.[41] Some sex-positive feminists argue that statutory rape laws were made with non-gender neutral intentions and are presently enforced as such, with the assumption that teenage girls are naive, nonsexual, and in need of protection.

    Sex-positive feminists with this view believe that “teen girls and boys are equally capable of making informed choices in regard to their sexuality”[42] and that statutory rape laws are actually meant to protect “good girls” from sex. Other feminists are opposed or ambivalent about strengthening statutory rape statutes because these preclude young women from entering consensual sexual relationships, even if competent to consent.[43]

    These feminists view statutory rape laws as more controlling than protective – and of course part of the law’s historic role was protecting the female’s chastity as valuable property. One writer also noted that, at that time, in some states, the previous sexual experience of a teenager could be used as a defense by one accused of statutory rape. She argued that this showed that the laws were intended to protect chastity rather than consent.

    • graphito@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Since the graffiti expressed a similar point, I remembered what I read about consent and chastity from sex positive feminists.

      I don’t really have a point to state or discuss, I was more interested in sharing what similar ideas other people wrote.

      So thanks for checking out the article 😌 glad the paragraph I cut out sparked that much curiosity to read it

          • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            3 months ago

            It doesn’t need to be 16 if it’s married /s

            (In case anyone’s confused, i’m making fun of nonsensical laws here - I don’t think children should be getting married, especially to adults. I’m just pointing out how, at least in US law in some states, the “age of consent laws” don’t seem to be about consent at all, actually, seeing as marriage is a loophole in the law.)

      • velma@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Yeah I have to admit I don’t know if I fully agree with this take from Wikipedia. Sorry “sex positive feminists”.