Jinn

Interesting thread, and unfortunately I have to agree with those saying it went too much of a witch hunt much too quickly.

And interesting thing to note is that more men think that Megan's Law takes it too far or that the label is overused? Why? Because if a woman were to lie, decieve, or falsify records, we could easily end up a sex offender. And to be frank, the treatment and thoughts that people have in this thread towards people with that label scares me. Remind me to never piss off a woman.

All it would take is a woman to lie convincingly and consistently and I could be put in a jail for a long time, and come out labeled and stigmatized. That SCARES me.

And yet on the other hand, if a man were to do the same thing, it's unlikely that it would ever make it to trial. Even if it did, I have a hard time believing the woman would actually be convicted as a sex offender. She'd probably end up with house arrest like that teacher. Gender imbalance, anyone?

And as a side note, I don't think exposing oneself should be a crime. Sex, penetration, touching, etc.. that's entirely different. There are entire nude colonies, and the European world has an entirely different view than we do on nudity. I think our Protestant fear of nudity has gone a bit far. Someone sees my winky and I'm sexually offending them?

Mostly because sexual assault, rape, etc.. are never accidental. Nakedness can be entirely accidental. If I forget to close my blinds walking from my bathroom to my bedroom and a kid walks by, I hardly think I'm a sex offender.

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