Teen kissing now illegal
The new Sexual Offenses Act which was signed into law this Thursday has pretty much made a vast number of teenagers into criminals!
According to the Act teenagers under the age of 16 caught kissing, touching or rubbing up against each other may now be criminally charged.
This means EVERY picture on this page shows a criminal offense under the new South African Law. Doesn’t that make you feel good?
This is just plain madness!
Did you know that you can now be had up on criminal charges if you kiss, or even hug your child?
Yes folks that is correct. Under the current wording of the act even a kiss hello or goodbye can now be viewed as a criminal offence. If your child hugs a friend goodbye, they can now be charged.
This law is breaking apart the basics of the family as well as affecting the social growth of our children. What kind of people will they turn into?
Now some of you will say that I am going overboard with this. But isn’t this exactly what the government always does? They initially say they won’t prosecute the innocent things, but then slowly the line is moved until they are prosecuting for the ridiculous.
Samantha Waterhouse, advocacy manager of Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, said that the laws covering consenting sexual behaviour, especially the aspects of non-penetrative sex among teenagers under the age of 16, were “ridiculous”.
“It is irrational. It does not help our cause at all because all it does is that it makes criminals of a wide range of teenagers.
“I can understand where the government is coming from in terms of morality, but criminalising kissing, and even touching, is illogical. What we should have are programmes aimed at sexual education, like what is and what is not appropriate,” she said.
Joan van Niekerk, national co-ordinator of Childline, said the act failed children and adolescents.
As is getting more common, the government drafted and passed the law without having public hearings. Furthermore the Act was not the Bill which was initially recommended by the Law Commission.
Our freedoms are slowly getting eroded away. No longer is the government the servant of the people as it should be. They now think that they are our benevolent guardians who know better than us.
Also illegal under the new act is any sexual activity, including oral sex, between consenting teens aged 15 and younger. Additionally it dealt with the new definition of rape which extends the definition to able men and boys to bring rape charges against perpetrators. These are some aspects of the Act which I can agree with.
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