Found a site that lists the age of consent for varous countries and proveds some other details conserning this particular facet of the discussion (since sex with a minor seems to be one of the prevailing crimes in the discussion)
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm It's interesting to note that there are some states where the ages are as low as 13 for homosexual intercourse but 16 for heterosexual. Oh, and to make you feel better, Jochiem, take a look at http://www.ageofconsent.com/netherlands.htm. There is also a page about "Travelling internationally" and explains the US federal laws on the topic... http://www.ageofconsent.com/uscitizens.htm Bottom line: "Nothing in this law, I repeat, NOTHING keeps you from having consensual sex with someone under 18, as long as it's not against the local laws, under the age of consent where you are, and you're not paying the person (or being paid yourself) if the person is under the age of 16. I want to be clear on this, if you are in a country where the age of consent is 14, then you can have consensual sex with that person, you just can't pay to have sex with a 14 year old while you're there." Hatton > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Lindh pleads guilty, won't receive life in prison > > > Just an fyi...Hatton said it better, but I already finnished (hehe). > Having sex with a minor is a state issue here. West Virginia > allows girls to > marry at 16. Prostitution is legal in Nevada as well. I think the vast > majority of criminal cases in the US are tried in state or local > courts.... > The individual states in the US are generally pretty powerful, > but lack the > money that the federal governent, so they generally do whatever Washinton > says, marijuana being a currently subject of disagreement, the states want > to decriminalize, the feds don't. States even have extradition agreements > (there is a better term) for sending criminals to another state for > prosecution there. > > jon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 6:45 PM > Subject: Re: Lindh pleads guilty, won't receive life in prison > > > Suppose some American teenager comes to the Netherlands at the age of > > 17. Meets somebody over 18, they have sex. That would be punishable > > under US Federal Law if I understand it correctly, so this somebody > > would have to be arrested as soon as he/she enters the US. Yet we > > explicitly chose to allow this in the Netherlands, for our own reasons. > > Or an American citizen came here to work as prostitute (s)he would be > > arrested when visiting relatives for Christmas. But prostitution is also > > legal here, for reasons of our choosing. > > > > We choose which rules there are on our territory and if those rules > > allow things to be done to or by US citizens that would not be allowed > > in the US maybe the US should forbid its citizens to travel here, but it > > should not impose its law on our territory. > > > > Jochem > > -- > > Muffins for who recognizes the shortened quote. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
