Ed Note: I’m going to start including a few guest entries in my blog from a couple of friends of mine in an attempt to expand my blog’s content a bit to cover other important issues without my having to do too much extra work! I hope you will find them interesting. The first is an entry from Bobby Lilly about a frightening situation where teens are actually being prosecuted for raping each other while engaging in consensual sex.–lr
Thanks Lisa,
I’ve always wanted a forum like this but haven’t had the time to set up my own blog so I’m thrilled to be here. I do want to warn your readers though that, while the provided link to the FFE speakers network gives them a lot of information about who I am and my concerns, it still shows me as the chairperson of Californians Against Censorhip Together even though Cal-Act no longer exists. It was an interesting ride for more than a decade though 😉 and for all too many years my life revolved around my political work
Now days, things are different. I’ve got an internet job working on-line from my office at home and I finally have the time to try to master the world of digital photography and be the artist I’ve always dreamed of becoming. These days I have to confess to being a Photoshop-aholic and I am just another activist working with a variety of groups on a variety of issues but not the political junky I once was.
For years, I focused on the importance of sexual speech and still consider myself a sex positive feminist even though those terms may be out of fashion these days. But both sexual speech AND sex itself still need someone defend it from prudery and speak the truth about it. There is still a crying need for sexual sanity in the US today.
A friend passed on the following story which I think deserves much more publicity and, hopefully, a demonstration of outrage from all of us to the paper which had this article, if not in larger venues as well:
Take a look at: Teens have right to have sex, lawyer argues
By Jamaal Abdul-Alim for the Journal Sentinel.
While it may seem ridiculous for any prosecutor to charge teens with rape for engaging in consensual sexuality, it is both a travesty of justice and a tragedy of the first order that this nation’s legal system has been so co-opted (or should I say corrupted) by an anti-sexual mentality/morality that children were charged with RAPE for innocent sexual exploration.
I can only hope that situations like this will raise an alarm that finally wakens the American people from their passive acquiescence to the nightmare of our legal system being hijacked by extremists on both the left and the right for their own political agendas. This should outrage us all.
The prosecutor deserves to be booted out of her position for her callous treatment of two ‘troubled’ (i.e., rebellious) teens. I can’t believe she dared to tell the press, “The reason I charged this case was because of their attitude,” Kornblum says. “I believe they had to be brought before an authority.” “Not to punish the children,” she said, “but to help them through various court-ordered services.”
Yah, sure that’s WHY she charged them with RAPE!!!…she should be ashamed of herself. Prudery, whether on behalf of the sex-negative left or the anti-sex religious right, runs rampant in this country these days and has harmed too many of us in too many ways to list here. It has to end.
So, why don’t you take the five minutes it will take to write a letter to the on-line edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel right now at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/submit.asp and DO something about it.

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