So...it's cool with you if a pervert pays to a screw a 20 year old prostitute when he believes he's a 14 year old. Is it cool if he's paying for a gal they claim is 19 when she's really 15?
You paleoFReepers amaze me!
Actually, my objection was to the tactics of the state in this case. If the state wants to skate this close to entrapment to catch ephebophiles, they could at least provide part-time jobs to teenagers so that those caught would actually be guilty of unlawful contact with a minor. Should someone be guilty of grand theft because they thought the thing they were stealing was worth $100,000, when in fact it was worth $0.50? I think not. No more is online chat with an adult unlawful contact with a minor, even if the one chatting thinks he’s chatting with a minor.
I also do have problems with the bizarre state of sexual mores as reflected in the law. What would be sensible would be to outlaw fornication. If our society is not willing to do so, the fiction that sexually mature human beings are “children” because they have not reached some arbitrarily defined age is an absurd basis for the definition of crimes. To extend those crimes to include crimes on the basis of pretended age is even more outrageous, and as I said, a perversion of reason, law and justice.