The REAL dangers of teen sex

Teens having sex.
I've heard that something like 50% of all teens, male and female lose their virginity sometime between 15-19 years old.
There's really nothing we can do to stop kids from doing it. Just give them the facts and hope the worst they walk away with is a broken heart.

Right?

Well apparently in some states that's not the case, and it's a frightening warning to anyone with teenage children of their own, or is reading this and is a teen themselves.

Sex when you are under 18, could either ruin your life, or the life of your partner.

No I'm not talking about STD/STI's or even pregnancy.
Both of which could affect you for the rest of your life, but I'm talking about something you wouldn't even think of since you are entering a consensual relationship with a peer.

I'm talking about real, serious and forever damning jail time and being marked as a sex offender for the rest of your life, simply by expressing yourself sexually when you're under 18.

Being a child sex offender has some of the worst punishments facing you. It restricts what jobs you can take, where you can live, what you can do with your free time, your ability to travel, vote, even how and if you are permitted to participate in regular holiday festivities is marked by your name and charged being available for anyone to see at any point.

It's kind of scary in an almost interesting way at how fucked up this can be.


What do I mean by warning teens of this? Well…

If you are older then your boyfriend or girlfriend, by any margin, a day, a month, a year. In some states even if you're both the exact same age, you may find yourself a sex offender and charged with rape of a child.

Even writing dirty messages to your boyfriend or girlfriend you can get an obscenity charge, talking dirty? Same deal. Leaving you with life on a sex offender registry.

Don't think this can be true?

In 2004, a 15 year old Pittsburgh girl was arrested for Child Pornography and Child Abuse.
For taking photos of herself.

In 2007 a 5 year old in Maryland was charged with sexual harassment for pinching a classmate on the butt.

That same year in Denver two 5 year old's were charged for kissing each other in school.
Fortunately those charges were dropped with the district attorney calling the charge itself a crime.

In 2009, a 13 year old girl in Iowa sent three boys (13, 14 and 15) a topless image of herself. All three boys and the girl are now on the registry for Child Pornography.

Also three girls ages 14-15 sent some nude pictures of themselves to their boyfriends (16-17) via camera phone. The girls are charged with Child Pornography and Distribution. The boys with possession. All will be sex offenders for life.

Just think about the movie "Twilight" Bella herself could have been facing Child Abuse or Rape charges if she had started a relationship with Jacob. (Especially considering how often *HE* was topless in that movie, I hear later in the book he sexually assaults her. She could be the one facing life on a sexual offenders list if she consented to his advances.)

And don't even think you, as parents if you are, are safe from these charges either.

Just Telling your kids about sex, if done the "Wrong Way" can be illegal. (I mean just telling. No visuals, just descriptions that are detailed enough to embarrass you child.) In 2007 and Wisconsin Mom was taken to court for giving her children a little TMI in regards to sex.

Trying to have a responsible teen and buy them condoms or take them to the doctor for birth control? Well that could get you arrested too.

I realize we need to protect children from predators. But punishing victims, making crime where there is none, making the law so harsh that innocents are harmed for life? It's time for maybe the laws to change and get a touch more specific.