[Richard Kimball]

Don't know the particulars, but whenever I see something like this now, I think about the fourteen year old girl that was charged with child porn for taking a topless photo of herself. I've had to do background checks on some people, and found that people registered as "sexual predators" included some terrible people, but also a 26 year old that had sex with a thirteen year old when he was fourteen. I don't trust the "sex offender" tag until I know what the person did.

Whew, I'm getting seriously cynical, aren't I?

[Boogieman]

Yeah, the laws are tricky and vary state by state. Some of these “sex offences” don’t seem to merit the level of ostracism that occurs by being lumped in with rapists and pedophiles. I haven’t led a perfect life myself, and there were surely a few times in my teenage years where if I had been caught in the act with my consenting girlfriend who was a couple years younger than me, I would be on one of these lists as well. Now I’m not proud of all of my former escapades, but at the same time my conscience is not worried that I am really an unpunished “sex offender” for my youthful indiscretions.