Thursday, March 7, 2013

Age of Consent for Sexual act

It is nothing but silly to argue whether name it r@pe or sexual assault as it is the deed which is important than what it is called. It will be better to classify all sexual assault where there is a contact of male sexual organ on the body of the victim whether male or female. Sexual assaults like touching on the body of the victim with an intention to attack her or his modesty but not physically cause any harm. To bring stalking and such as a sexual assault is not proper. If someone persistently follow someone it should be termed as criminal harassment. It will be better if it is brought under some other clause of IPC. And the move to bring down the age of consensual sex from 18 to 16 is most foolish move. When the minimum age for marriage for a girl is 18 what it is the logic in bringing consensual sex to 16? Is it not encouraging premarital sex? You sleep with a girl but cannot marry till she attains the age of 18 ! Wonderful logic. If someone r@pes a girl of 16 and the case goes for trial and the accused claims that she had agreed for the sexual act it will be very difficult for the girl to prove that she did not consent. The defence attorney will put the girl through a wringer and girl would have thought it would have been better if she has not complained at all. For what purpose is this move. Whom does the government wants to protect? There will be many more Suryanelli cases and many a big wig will escape the arms of law on this count only. They will not need to cook up any alibi. They can straight away say that 'she was willing'. The argument that youth caught at the sexual act are harassed is no excuse for premarital sex. Anyone who wants to do wait till they attain the prescribed age. Here there is one more anomaly. For boys the minimum age for marriage is 21 years. Then is it not crime to do a sexual act before they attain 21 years. The age prescribed for boys and girls are according to the human physiology. Especially in the case of girls. A girl is not fit physiologically to bear child before she is 18. It is an average one and may change with individuals. So if a girl of 16 had consensual sex and she gets pregnant how do you account for the act? Will the girl arrested for marrying someone when she was 18? Is not sexual act the consummation of marriage? Is it not all other ceremonies like 'saptapadi' and all just to legalise the marriage? Government seems to be stacked with not only corrupt but morons and stupids. And if these 'unpads' are to make laws even God will not be able to save this country. What else to expect when corrupt and @apists and murderers and all sorts of criminals have a free hand?

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