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Originally Posted by Dottore
I'll say it one last time. I'm suggesting the law is rubbish.
When someone is obviously sexually mature and sexually experienced (and arguably even a bit of a tart with a sexual history)—well in that case it seems to me the issue of whether or not she was raped should be determined by reference to the facts (ie; whether or not she consented to the act), and not by reference to an arbitrary age.
Do you get that rather simple point?
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I live in L.A. and I am constantly in the presence of smoking hot, young women and girls. I tend to like them younger than myself, (I'm 50), and I grew up with a Dad that dated women half his age. (After divorcing my Mom). Most of my Dad's friends trended the same way. I can tell you with absolute certainty that as a middle-aged guy, a lot of 25 y.o. women look like they're barely out of HS to me. Beauties in their early 20s are just too young to hit-on in most all cases, (though certainly not illegal). Teenaged girls look like babies no matter how beautiful or physically mature they are. I've been around the modeling business and you are talking about the prettiest, tallest girls who get made-up to look older and pull it off in ads. They look like babies in person.
There is no way on earth to bang a 13 y.o. and mistake her for being much older and in fact that is not what happened w/ Polanski. Every available piece off evidence in the case, (and there is plenty), confirms that he raped her.
What he did would be considered rape if she was 25. SG's grand jury testimony is widely available online and is particularly damning. I do not believe for a minute that she was lying or that she had some vengeful agenda against RP.
I could not admire him more as an artist or less as a person. He deserves whatever comes his way, that law is more than just.
