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Westie way ahead of Paul Ruditis
By John S Sr on Thu, 08/03/2006 - 11:47pm
My wife and I just returned from our summer vacation but not before she insisted on a trip to Barnes and Noble in order to augment her supply of summer eading materials. We are new to the "empty nest" situation but have lost little time in adapting to our new lifestyle. I was intigued by one of my wife's selections written by a Mr. Paul Ruditis. This particular tome introduced me to an altogether new meaning to the phrase "rainbow party." The unfortunate reality is that when I googled the phrase, it confirmed a suspicion harbored by my wife and I for the last 5 or 6 summers.
At the time, our son would attend a local high school dance with his friends when one night he came home with some very discernable cosmetic residue around the crotch area of his khakis. We immediately ascertained that he had not been drinking and was not in any way impaired. After some firm but gentle questioning, he admitted that some local Westie girls were gathering in a wooded area behind a nearby supermarket after the dance to offer their "services" without reservation to any guy willing to show up.
We were understandably reluctant to believe that a random group of 12-14 year old group of West Roxbury girls would actually do that behind a supermarket and in the open! After the incident, we had him checked out by his doctor anyway just as a precaution. Since then, we have never encountered the situation again and happily our son is a Master's degree recipient already doing quite well for himself.
This begs the question; Is Paul Ruditis' work really a work of fiction after all?
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Those Awful Awful Girls
Your perspective is very interesting: apparently your son had no control over the situation, I mean, I can't believe a group of girls would do this to your poor innocent son and that your high school age son didn't have enough sense of right and wrong to avoid having sex with a twelve to fourteen year old girl. I'm sure he accidentally wandered behind the grocery store and those slutty girls just threw him down on the ground.
Depending on the age of your son at the time, there is a an old fashioned phrase to describe what he did, which, while it may not be as catchy as "rainbow party", certainly should be familiar to you: statutory rape. Did he put that on his application for his master's program?
Whoa, Nelly.
CCFK, I think you missed a crucial point of the story, assuming you recognize that oral sex is not included in Massachusetts' statutory rape laws: Mr. John S. wrote that his son had "cosmetic residue" around the crotchal area of his pants, clearly (to me) suggesting that a female WHO WAS WEARING MAKEUP ON HER FACE, NOT HER GENITALS offered her "services" to his son on the night in question. While you may well be correct that the young fellow must certainly have had some choice in the matter and the female in the scenario was not solely to "blame," me thinks you have assumed that intercourse occurred when that was specifically not a part of this story.
Just to be clear: I know nothing about this other than what I've read here, but I took it differently than the previous commenter did and, frankly, I think CCFK assumed much too much. Carry on, then.
Cynical, I'm not sure where
Cynical, I'm not sure where you get your information but you are incorrect and you assume too much about what I have "assumed". The situation described by the poster is statutory rape.
A Brief Overview of Massachusetts Sexual Assault and Rape Law from www.mass.gov/da/norfolk/sexualassault.html states:
Massachusetts law defines rape as "sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse." Natural and unnatural intercourse includes vaginal, anal or oral sex. There are several categories of rape under Massachusetts Law. Which crime of rape has been committed (and the punishment that can or must be imposed) depends on the age of the victim and the manner in which the crime was committed.
The Belmont Police Department website says much the same thing:
What is "statutory rape?"
"Statutory rape" is a common name for a criminal law known in Massachusetts as "Rape and abuse of a child." This law makes it a crime for a person to have "sexual intercourse" or "unnatural sexual intercourse" with a person who has not reached his or her 16th birthday. Those who commit this crime may be punished by a life sentence in state prison.
See the law: www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/265-23.htm
What if the person under 16 wants to have sex?
Under the law, a person under the age of 16 may not consent to having
"sexual intercourse" or "unnatural sexual intercourse." Therefore anyone who has sex with a person under 16 does so without that person's consent. It is rape. Even if a person under 16 says "yes", having sex with a person under 16 is a crime.
The law is intended to protect persons under the age of 16 from having to make a decision that requires a high level of physical, mental, and emotional maturity.
What if both people having sex are under 16?
The law makes it a crime for a person to have sex with another person who is under 16. Apparently both persons would be committing this crime.
The following link has the full rundown: www.belmontpd.org/Divisions/CP/statatuory_rape_inf...
John S. should be very proud of his son.
Damn you, Bill Clinton!
Sorry, folks. I was apparently relying on the William Jefferson Clinton Dictionary of Sexual Terminology, a tome which is clearly and woefully out of date. Never mind and carry on. :-P