AvenirLegacy
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- Posted: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:11:48 +0000
Roih Uvet
AvenirLegacy
Roih Uvet
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statistics? Other than to kill a mockingbird, of course.
and that was the past, you take modern society and push it, then what would happen?
Do I really have to post statistics showing that rapes are lowest now, in the industrialized world, than they ever have been in history? I thought that was common knowledge?
If you go by reported rape in the US by state then you find that there is no correlation between what schools and society pushes and numbers. Source
So the answer is nothing would change when it comes to reported rapes. Though teen pregnancy would skyrocket.
Examples?
Age of consent laws are a relatively recent thing in the Western world. While the most appropriate age to marry (and with it, have sex) is an old topic dating back to at least 700BC. Hesiod recommends that men marry at thirty and take a wife that is roughly half a decade "past puberty," which, unless human biology has changed dramatically in the last few millennia, would place her in her mid-to-late teens. The origin of the age of consent as a legal concept varies in law depending on legal tradition. Sharia courts have recognized a concept of age of consent well before Western ones have; since Mohammad PBUH married Aisha at the age of six, and consummated that marriage at the age of nine (when she was still "playing with dolls", an Arabic phrase indicating she was prepubescent), they consider the age of consent to be nine. This legal precedent goes back over a thousand years. The first age of consent law in the Western world made it a misdemeanor to have sex with a little girl below the age of twelve. So, there's one major difference. Age of consent is taken seriously now, whereas it was not in the past.
Another major expansion of rape as a legal concept of marital rape. In American and English courts, men subsumed many of their wife's legal rights in a doctrine known as coverture. This included the right to have sex with them; until recently, "marital rape" was an oxymoron. Marriage implied, non-revocably, consent to sex.
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I ask for examples of how the definition of rape has change, not information regarding the age of consent. Rape is still forcing someone to have sex, against their will, regardless of age.
Please show examples how this definition has changed over the years. And something a little more relevant. Say, the past 100 years not the past 1000.