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Another sex crazed teacher story

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

A 27 tear old female dance teacher in Plainfield, Illinois is accused of having sex with her 16 year old student.

Ashley Blumenshine was arrested behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her in a car with the teen.

Police believe that they had had sex shortly before the officers arrived.

The high school teacher is being held in custody charged with having sex with the student. Her attorney said she is innocent.

She taught dance and physical education at Plainfield North High School for four years and is known for her popularity. The boy is a junior at the school.

Assistant Will County State’s Attorney Mary Fillipitch said both occupants admitted they had just engaged in consensual sexual intercourse.

A condom was taken as evidence from the vehicle.

The following day, the Will County State’s Attorney’s office charged Blumenshine with aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

The article says the affair had been going on for about a month. The kid is 16. The age of consent in Illinois is generally 17, but in this case it’s 18 since she is “a person of authority or trust” over him. Of course, by the time he’s 18 he will become magically transformed from someone who is incapable of consenting to sex to someone who is actively encouraged by the government to become cannon fodder in some god forsaken desert on the other side of the planet.

I wonder what would have happened if they had both kept their mouths shut. I hope the kid refuses to testify. Without knowing anymore than what’s in the article, I would venture to say he has not been injured in the least by the affair but will suffer substantial guilt if they force him to assist in destroying this teacher’s life. I would probably regret it for the rest of my life. Unfortunately, kids are steeped in the propaganda of sex hysteria and the idea that cops and prosecutors are always the good guys.

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Woman, 34, assaults boy, 15. Boy goes back for seconds.

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

The Charleston Daily Mail reports yet another story of a boy who was found to have been having consensual sex with an older woman, almost every boy’s dream. Of course, the boy’s mother wants the woman charged with sexual assault.

The teen told deputies he first met Tetso three months ago and that he was a friend of her three children. He said he walked over to her home in the first week of June to ask her about a job babysitting her children. He told the deputy that he became attracted to her and that they decided to have sex in her bedroom. They were alone in the house.

He said they had sex twice more in July. He told deputies that he knew she was 34 years old. The teen described the woman’s bedroom and tattoos on her body as well.

Because the near complete vacuum of objectivity regarding teen sex, society tends to view any sexual activity between teens and adults (and often even between teens and other teens) as the worst kind of assault imaginable. Indeed, even murder invokes less reaction and often less punishment than mutually consensual sex.

Assuming this woman is caught and convicted, this boy stands to live the rest of his life feeling as if activities he willingly engaged in helped to destroy someone he obviously had no desire to hurt.

Stories about women being prosecuted for sexual encounters with teen boys are becoming more and more common. I’ve written about it before here and here.

One would hope that, sometime soon, Americans will emerge from the sexual dark ages and accept that the sex drive starts before some state-defined age of consent and that entertaining that drive is not a crime.

Thanks to reader MacGregory for the link to this story.

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“Dear Columbus Police Department:…”

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

According to WTVM.com, folks in Columbus, GA are pissed off that the police department is spending too much time investigating consensual “crimes” at the expense of solving real crimes.

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - Some WTVM viewers have written comments on the heels of the most recent prostitution sting at a Columbus hotel.

The comments are scathing:

“Dear Columbus Police Department: Have you caught any murderers or rapists lately?.. Maybe you should quit surfing the web for hookers and do some real police work…”

“Who cares? You are not going to stop it. Let’s concentrate on the bigger crimes. If these guys want to put themselves in harm’s way, so be it.”

According to the article, the CPD tries to get women they find on craigslist to agree to exchanging sex for money so they can then arrest them on prostitution charges. Of course, the strategy of tricking people into breaking the law is typical when it comes to consensual crime because there are no victims to complain.

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Tonight on Stossel: Sex and the Law

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

From his blog on the Fox Business website:

Tonight’s Stossel is all about sex and the law. (FBN @9pm ET) What are the rules? I tackle several thorny issues, such as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” decency standards for broadcast television, pornography, and the age of consent.

For those unfamiliar with John Stossel, he is mot well known as a one-time consumer advocate and co-host of ABC’s 20/20 news program. Over the years he became more libertarian and now has his own show on Fox Business Network dedicated to discussing and advocating those ideals, regularly criticizing government interference in people’s personal lives. He invites guests from both sides of the issues with the libertarian perspective often being presented by members from respected organizations like the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine.

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Craigslist should tell Connecticut to fuck off

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Nary a day goes by without some new episode of the government accusing craigslist of not cracking down sufficiently hard on what people are saying in the “land of the free”.

pcmag.com says:

Connecticut’s attorney general [Richard Blumenthal] on Monday issued a subpoena to Craigslist, asking the site to turn over evidence that it is fulfilling its promise to get rid of ads for prostitution and other illegal activity, as well as data on what it earns from adult ads.

Blumenthal pointed to a recent study that said Craigslist will earn an estimated $36 million in 2010 from the sale of adult-oriented ads.

First of all, conflating statistics about adult ads with prostitution as if they were the same thing is typical of what you’d expect from crusading prosecutors who build their reputations on the bodies of the citizens whose lives they ruin.

Craigslist is a communications medium that has no business policing, at the government’s behest, what people want to say when the government itself has no power over the very ads they’re complaining about. The First Amendment prohibits government from interfering with free speech. Using intimidation to get a private business to do what the government can’t is a clear violation of that principle.

It’s unfortunate that Craigslist can’t just blow off Blumenthal, but they could never win against America’s war-on-sex mentality. Elected officials, even in the midst of a huge budget-straining recession, have the audacity and power to piss money down the toilet by harassing private businesses in their campaign to make a name for themselves. And the sex paranoid public eats it up.

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Sex for money isn’t always prostitution

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Regardless of laws prohibiting the exchange of sex for money, it’s not entirely illegal. Since the Supreme Court has ruled that pornography is protected expression, having sex in exchange for money is not as likely to incur charges of prostitution provided one is doing it in front of a camera. It sounds strange that simply introducing a camera to the equation makes an illegal act perfectly legal.

But, in addition to the porn industry, there is a less well known career that involves an exchange of sex for money. Thefastertimes.com interviews Linda Poelzl, a certified Bay Area sex surrogate.

“We are not fucking our brains out all the time, but there is sex involved,” she says.

Of the profession in general:

The International Professional Surrogate Association (IPSA) is the only existing organization that certifies sexual surrogate therapists. Prostitution and fear of legal repercussions have taken a toll on the profession. Consequently, Poezl’s line of work is both highly risky and thinly populated. “We are a dying breed,” she says.

The fact that sex for money is legal in the porn and sex counseling industries highlights the authoritarian position the state holds over ordinary citizens who are denied those same rights in the name of morality. The real immorality is when the state insinuates itself between two consenting adults in a way that makes it the sole arbiter over their relationship.

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Another teacher-student sex scandal

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A Burbank California teacer has admitted to having an affair with a 14 year old males student. According to the AP report:

With her attorney by her side, police say, Amy Victoria Beck told detectives the relationship with one of her former students began in March 2009 and continued until last December. She said it left her wracked with guilt.

I’ll reserve judgment on the guilt part until I hear more about it. There is probably a lot more to this story that will take time to come out. It’s interesting to note she came forward on her own and the boy merely confirmed what she told police.

The 33-year-old teacher, who has been charged with five counts of engaging in sex acts with a person under 16, appeared briefly in court Wednesday before returning to jail. She is scheduled to be arraigned March 25 and faces as much as seven years in prison if convicted.

What I always find interesting about cases like this is the fact that it’s taken for granted that this poor child has been tragically victimized by an adult, but if he had had an affair with someone his own age, it would probably be chalked up as being within the range of normal teen behavior. In effect, what makes this so serious is not the sex, but the fact that it happened with an adult. Why is it automatically assumed that a wide age spread necessarily results in greater injury to the victim?

And then to top off the over-reaction, there’s this:

After learning she’d been arrested, officials sent psychologists to the school to counsel students.

The counseling racket is really becoming a growth industry. Of course, children are such fragile little flowers…

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John Stossel & Wendy Murphy argue prostitution

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

John Stossel will discuss prohibitions on his Thursday evening show on the Fox Business channel. Included in the show will be a segment on legalizing prostitution, a topic that gets practically no coverage at all in the mainstream media. Arguing against it will be former sex crimes prosecutor Wendy Murphy who is strongly opposed to legalization of prostitution for all the usual reasons (exploitation, slavery, etc). Stossel says:

I think calling it slavery is an insult to those who’ve suffered real slavery. Slavery is force. Prostitution is consensual. On my show, I’ll let a former “sex worker” and the prosecutor fight it out.

I wonder who the former sex worker will be…

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Commentary on attitudes about sex right on target

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The Santa Maria Times published an excellent editorial pointing out society’s irrational attitudes toward the sex:

Warning: This may be X-rated

The only point I take issue with is the comparison of Janet Jackson’s half time escapade, which resulted in major media coverage, with violent video games which are readily available and even marketed to children. Advocates of censorship almost always base their arguments on the idea that children suffer lasting (if not permanent) damage from exposure to certain types of material, most notably sex and violence. It is certainly true that the crusade against sex is far more active and receives far more attention and support than the campaign against violence.

But the reason I hesitate to make such a comparison is that, instead of arguing against censorship of sex, it comes across to many people as an argument (or excuse) for censorship of violence. The fact is that, for every claim that a child’s behavior can be traced to porn or video games, there are a gazillion examples of kids who were exposed to the same material and weren’t affected. A far more plausible explanation is that the kid had a propensity for certain kinds of behavior and and his interest in certain types of content stems from the same internal predisposition.

Finally, I would like to make clear that the First Amendment doesn’t have an exception that allows material to be censored because it could adversely affect people’s thinking.

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Crackdown on girls who sell sex for fancy clothes

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

According to scottsman.com:

POLISH police have launched a campaign warning high-school girls of the dangers of prostitution, amid fears growing numbers of them are selling their bodies for clothes and electronic gadgets.

So, are they trying to say they should be asking for more? Or that you should only have sex for love (ie: free)?

“We do not want to teach children how to easily earn money, but to show them that prostitution is linked to drug addiction, alcoholism and trafficking in human beings,” said Sergeant Adrianna Mazur, of Katowice police.

Yeah, nothing pisses off the anti-prostitution crusaders more than people who contradict their claims that prostitution is always slavery and exploitation. Telling teenagers that exchanging sex for status will lead to doom and misery is a bit like telling teen pot smokers that marijuana will destroy their lives. Even teens know bullshit when they hear it.

A recent survey of 15-year-old girls found 67 per cent had a friend or peer who had engaged in prostitution, and only half of those surveyed thought it was something wrong.

The ant-sex crusaders will probably take that as a cry for help and want to send them to some kind of reeducation program.

One has to wonder if the sole mission of the anti-sex busy bodies is simply to heap public shame and scorn on those who don’t strictly conform to their own outmoded attitudes. It’s as if society is telling young people that having sex at an early age will make their lives miserable and then, to prove it, they do everything that can to make sure their lives do, in fact, become miserable.

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