Statutory Rape

So recently sports star Lawrence Taylor has been accused of having sex with an underage prostitute. Now I actually think that we should decriminalize prostitution and regulate it as a real business. I see nothing wrong with paying for sex, but I do see a problem with pimping out 15-year-olds. We could, if we would just get our heads out of our asses, make this a safe industry with regular STI screens and safe places to do business.

Now hopefully, this girls uncle (her pimp) will go to jail. I don't know his situation or what drove him to this, but profiting on the rape of his niece is a punishable offense. He should spend a significant amount of time in jail.

This is part of a bigger problem that has slowly worked its way into our society. Why would a 51 year old man want to have sex with a 15 year old girl? I'll tell you why. Because we sexualize children and infantalize women. Proof? Eating disorders. Women in magazines are tiny and then airbrushed to look smaller. If we consider anorexia as a social disorder as well as a psychological disorder, we can say that people learn how they should look from media sources (ex. magazines, movies, music videos, ect) and that they are given the impression that beauty is synonymous with small. So we diet and we starve ourselves, all to conform to the standard of beauty promoted by an industry that loves to profit on our insecurities.

Now here's the kicker: women who don't have body fat or enough body fat, cease to menstruate. The only other females who don't menstruate? Young girls. So the smaller women get, the more men start to associate women with young girls.

So we can say that Mr. Taylor is a product of our twisted society and realize that he "didn't realize she was underage" because of how the media portrays women. BUT it still doesn't change the fact that he had sex with her.

Now solving this matter. I think we should demand a law that prohibits the use of photo shop from magazines and there should be a weight requirement for models. I realize that this is just another way to control women and maybe you think you have the right to publish a photo of a size 8 model and make it look like her jaw is bigger than her waist (I'm talking to you Ralph Lauren), but anorexia kills. These actions have real effects on real women and it's killing us.