Monday, August 10, 2009
News Georgia sex laws typify national problem
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM
This week's cover story in the Economist is about the U.S.'s ill-conceived and counterproductive sex laws.
The story focuses not just on Georgia, but also on Wendy Whitaker – who is considered a sex offender in Georgia because when she was a 17 year-old girl she was caught performing consensual oral sex on a 15-year-old boy.
It's an excellent story, and a reminder to re-read Scott Henry's also excellent 2006 CL story about Whitaker.
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