and that is that I will die before I ever reside in Kansas. Two teens getting hot n heavy is rape!!

Oral sex is fine for girls to give, but not receive!

Oh and lets make the girls terrified to go to the doctor because the doctor or nurse has to report that she had sex to the state!

I want these assholes out of our bedrooms unless a REAL crime is going on like molestation, incest or ACTUAL rape and that means the girl tells her doctor that a crime occured, not the doctor telling the state that 25 under age girls came in today who have engaged in sexual activity, so they must have been raped.

It seems like everyone has forgotten the days when you could be accused of abusive sexuality by sending a feminist e-hugs when she didn't ask for them.

The neoconservatives seem to have adopted the worst habits of the eighties left. Back in the eighties, conservatives weren't even willing to admit sexual abuse existed. Now they see it everywhere, just like an eighties feminist did.

The baseline for statuatory rape laws should be as such...

1. At least one of the partners must be under the age of 18.

2. The older partner must be at least three years older than the younger (otherwise, an 18 year old who has consensual sex with his 17 1/2 year old girlfriend could be prosecuted)

3. The older partner must have reasonable means of knowing that their partner is younger than 18 and more than 3 years younger than them.

4. All parties involved must be of sound mind and not related more closely than state law would allow them to marry.

5. Sex is defined as oral, anal, or regular old intercourse.

As for necking and petting and all that jazz, if it's two 15-year-olds and it's consensual, uh, that's pretty normal. And that's something for parents to deal with, not the state.

I do think that morally, doctors should be asking questions when a young teenager (under 15) comes in pregnant, for the protection of the pregnant child (which is what a 14 year old is, preggers or not). But how to legislate what they'll ask is silly at best, because this is a situation that needs tact and diplomacy.

You have to understand the way some people think - giving oral sex on a girl - ick! Getting oral sex from a forl - normal!

The so called ultra moral in this country really seem to have an obsession with sex.

So wait a second: a girl giving oral sex to a guy is OK, but a guy giving oral sex to a girl is harmful? To whom, exactly?

That sounds more than a little unfair.

I guess the state attorney's next move is to punish sexually active teens by stoning them to death. Between this latest nonsense and that creationist idiocy Kansas bible-thumpers and others now call "creative design," I've concluded that Kansas is uninhabitable. Any parent watching the events unfold in that state should be packing their children up and moving--imagine having your son or daughter tried and convicted as a sex offender for kissing or necking! It's insane, and no one should have to pay taxes to live in a dictatorship.

Stay out of Kansas!

...I hope these new laws aren't retroactive. Otherwise I'm in big trouble, high school-wise.

My poor kid; what a world he's growing up in. They're trying to criminalize getting to second base in 10th grade.

Apparently coupling with your siblings and/or the mentally defective still needs to be addressed.

I wonder what kind of sentence a man/boy with the mind of a child/chimp, who fondles imaginary weapons of mass destruction while playing war with his nations kids, would get in Kansas?

What's the matter with Kansas?

They're freakin' nuts!

I thought it was impossible for me to dislike my home state more than I already did - back when you mentioned "Kansas" and people just made jokes about Dorothy and Toto.

Now we have the goose-stepping Phil Kline heading the Teen Sex Secret Police, a ill-educated school board that literally "changed the definition of science" - and a female state official who believes (bless her little cookie-baking heart) that women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

In the next election, that same woman will be running for the office of Director of the Kansas State Board of Elections.

Bite her again, Toto.

If two teens under the age of 16 engage in sexual activity, and "each such incident constitutes a rape, regardless of the parties' mutual consent", then exactly who raped who? Do we now have mutual rape? These people are too stupid for words.

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS??!!