HILARIOUS: Lying To Get S3x May Now Become A Crime
There's a new bill that's being looked into in New Jersey that would
make having s3x with someone by lying to them a crime. It's called
S3xual Assault by deception. For instance, if there was somewhere that
a burned lover could turn to if she discovered that the man who told
her he was childless not only had a 10-year-old, but also a pregnant
side chick? That would be considered a crime if the bill passes.
Or if the person they're sleeping with showed them photos of a
beautiful home he claimed to own but in reality was living in his
parents' basement?
In other words, if a woman is duped into having s3x they could have
the man arrested.
Mischele Lewis, a 37-year-old suburban-mom-turned-activist is the
inspiration behind this bill in New Jersey.
This bill was actually introduced late last year to make "sexual
assault by fraud" a punishable offense.
The bill defines it as "an act of sexual penetration to which a person
has given consent because the actor has misrepresented the purpose of
the act or has represented he is someone he is not."
"I think it's important because trying to deceive anyone for the
purpose of s3xual gratification is just wrong," Lewis said. "Every
person has the right to knowing consent. And before they consent to be
intimate with anybody, they should absolutely know 100 percent who it
is that they are being intimate with. "Whether it's as simple as say
they slip off their wedding ring and then they engage in a
relationship with someone, but the man or woman has no idea that the
person they are with is married," she added. "Lying to someone else
for any reason is never OK, whether it be [for] a job, a relationship,
criminal history, parental history, marital history . . .. When did we
become a society that thinks it's completely acceptable to lie to
other people on a daily basis and think that's morally OK?" Should it
pass, such a bill would open up a whole realm of possibilities for
tricked lovers. "On the one hand, we want law enforcement to have the
law on their side in order to go after sexual predators who try to
lure victims into sexual situations through deceit," pointed out
Kathleen Bogle, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice
at La Salle University. "On the other hand, many people lie to get sex
and we may not want to cast too broad of a net in pursuing these
situations through criminal law. "Most people would agree that lying
to obtain sex is immoral, but only a fraction of those scenarios
should be punishable by criminal law," she added.
She's right about not clogging up the legal system. But there's such a
thing as principle. As Yale law professor Jed Rubenfield wrote in a
2013 edition of theYale Law Review, "Rape-by-deception is almost
universally rejected in American criminal law. But if rape is sex
without the victim's consent – as many courts, state statutes and
scholars say it is – then sex-by-deception ought to be rape, because
as courts have held for a hundred years in virtually every area of the
law outside of rape, a consent procured through deception is no
consent at all." Meanwhile, Lewis, whose dating horror story was
chronicled in the Daily News last year and later on NBC's "Dateline,"
is recuperating from the shock of discovering that the man she met on
an online dating site back in 2013 was a con artist.
Not only had the man she knew as Liam Allen lied to her about his
legal name, but instead of being some sort of secret agent of the
British government, as he claimed, he had served time in the U.K. for
bigamy. He also had failed to register as a sex offender and had been
convicted of indecent assault of a minor.
But back when she was falling madly in love, Lewis, a labor and
delivery nurse, knew nothing about Jordan's nefarious ways. When she
was handing over $5,000 for a phony security clearance, she had no
clue that she was just Jordan's latest victim.
In November, he pleaded guilty to third-degree theft by deception and
was ordered to pay restitution. He's currently serving a three-year
prison sentence in New Jersey.
make having s3x with someone by lying to them a crime. It's called
S3xual Assault by deception. For instance, if there was somewhere that
a burned lover could turn to if she discovered that the man who told
her he was childless not only had a 10-year-old, but also a pregnant
side chick? That would be considered a crime if the bill passes.
Or if the person they're sleeping with showed them photos of a
beautiful home he claimed to own but in reality was living in his
parents' basement?
In other words, if a woman is duped into having s3x they could have
the man arrested.
Mischele Lewis, a 37-year-old suburban-mom-turned-activist is the
inspiration behind this bill in New Jersey.
This bill was actually introduced late last year to make "sexual
assault by fraud" a punishable offense.
The bill defines it as "an act of sexual penetration to which a person
has given consent because the actor has misrepresented the purpose of
the act or has represented he is someone he is not."
"I think it's important because trying to deceive anyone for the
purpose of s3xual gratification is just wrong," Lewis said. "Every
person has the right to knowing consent. And before they consent to be
intimate with anybody, they should absolutely know 100 percent who it
is that they are being intimate with. "Whether it's as simple as say
they slip off their wedding ring and then they engage in a
relationship with someone, but the man or woman has no idea that the
person they are with is married," she added. "Lying to someone else
for any reason is never OK, whether it be [for] a job, a relationship,
criminal history, parental history, marital history . . .. When did we
become a society that thinks it's completely acceptable to lie to
other people on a daily basis and think that's morally OK?" Should it
pass, such a bill would open up a whole realm of possibilities for
tricked lovers. "On the one hand, we want law enforcement to have the
law on their side in order to go after sexual predators who try to
lure victims into sexual situations through deceit," pointed out
Kathleen Bogle, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice
at La Salle University. "On the other hand, many people lie to get sex
and we may not want to cast too broad of a net in pursuing these
situations through criminal law. "Most people would agree that lying
to obtain sex is immoral, but only a fraction of those scenarios
should be punishable by criminal law," she added.
She's right about not clogging up the legal system. But there's such a
thing as principle. As Yale law professor Jed Rubenfield wrote in a
2013 edition of theYale Law Review, "Rape-by-deception is almost
universally rejected in American criminal law. But if rape is sex
without the victim's consent – as many courts, state statutes and
scholars say it is – then sex-by-deception ought to be rape, because
as courts have held for a hundred years in virtually every area of the
law outside of rape, a consent procured through deception is no
consent at all." Meanwhile, Lewis, whose dating horror story was
chronicled in the Daily News last year and later on NBC's "Dateline,"
is recuperating from the shock of discovering that the man she met on
an online dating site back in 2013 was a con artist.
Not only had the man she knew as Liam Allen lied to her about his
legal name, but instead of being some sort of secret agent of the
British government, as he claimed, he had served time in the U.K. for
bigamy. He also had failed to register as a sex offender and had been
convicted of indecent assault of a minor.
But back when she was falling madly in love, Lewis, a labor and
delivery nurse, knew nothing about Jordan's nefarious ways. When she
was handing over $5,000 for a phony security clearance, she had no
clue that she was just Jordan's latest victim.
In November, he pleaded guilty to third-degree theft by deception and
was ordered to pay restitution. He's currently serving a three-year
prison sentence in New Jersey.
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