Georgia sex laws typify national problem
August 10, 2009 at 9:39 am by Andisheh Nouraee in NewsThis week’s cover story in the Economist is about the U.S.’s ill-conceived and counterproductive sex laws.
The story focuses not just on Georgia, but also on Wendy Whitaker – who is considered a sex offender in Georgia because when she was a 17 year-old girl she was caught performing consensual oral sex on a 15-year-old boy.
It’s an excellent story, and a reminder to re-read Scott Henry’s also excellent 2006 CL story about Whitaker.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I am offended that seventeen year old girls didn’t do that when I was fifteen.