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[edit] Shotgun weddings
I think it is necessary to examine the history of these laws if they are to be included in the encyclopedia. The likelihood that such laws originated due to contemporary attitudes about sexuality in the young is absurd. Those attitudes are nowhere NEAR as old as these laws. History would suggest that the sex-with-adolescent-women side of this law is derived more of the expense fathers would have if their daughters should become pregnant with no husband--thus making the law into an implied "shotgun" for shotgun weddings. Certainly I would not add this without citation, however, so why is it OK to just assume the other perspective and report without citation that these laws, enacted decades and decades ago, are put in place due to contemporary psychological attitudes. Ridiculous.76.107.212.233 (talk) 20:44, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
- Sure, originally they are grounded in the need of clans and families to prevent Don-Juan type escapades and make sure their daughters' reputations were preserved. But that doesn't stop the popular and cultural rationale - as opposed to the judicial one - from having moved towards a need to rally against 'uninhibited' sexual mores among teenagers. Where these laws are enforced today, it's often against relations between, like, 17 year old boys and 14 year old girls, and the support for resisting that is galvanized much more by moralism than by the supposed damage to the marriageability of the girl. After all, keeping off sex until marriage or betrothal is no longer a strongly applied norm in mainstream western societies. In many high school classes, both in America and elsewhere, the girls are more worried about becoming the last one to lose her virginity than about being able to save it up for her coming hubby. And parents are aware of this competitive need to explore sexuality, and (most of them) not terribly committed to forcing their girls to "stay at home", under their eyes until marriage, because premarital sex would have destroyed her and their reputation or forced a wedding. Strausszek (talk) 08:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Citation needed for societal perception claim
I added a "citation needed" flag to the claim that societal perceptions have shifted away from acceptance of female on male statutory rape. The statement is quite dubious and has no source. I suspect it is original research. Blackworm (talk) 04:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
[edit] In at least one to one of many
The source talks about California courts joining the same decision other courts in other states coming to the same conclusion, previous was talking about only one case happening which isn't true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silver163 (talk • contribs) 05:47, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
[edit] American slang
Statutory rape is essentially just an American slang term. It has no legal status, and isn't even an issue in less repressive countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 03:53, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] USA centered
As the above comment hints at, much or this article, as with MANY Wikipedia articles is very USA centred. American contributors seem to very often forget there is a whole world outside the USA, using terms like 'the government' or 'the law' when they mean "the United States government" or "USA law" Adagio67 (talk) 11:35, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
