Couple found guilty of having sex on Florida beach

[Malthus]

Better than if he's facing re-election and doesn't want to be seen as soft on crime? Or worse?

I'd say "worse", because the absurd result in this case (15 years for public sex) would then be hard-wired.

[derspiess]

Article sucks, no mention if she is hot.

Googled her.  I'd say yes.  Not perfect, but still hott.

[The Larch]

Article sucks, no mention if she is hot.

There's a picture (not a very flattering one, though) in the link.

[DGuller]

The problem is also that the mechanism for dividing the lambs from the wolves seems rather screwy.

Pretty well everone I know has, at some point or another, used an illegal drug, or had sex in public - often at much the same time.  Oh, to be 19-24 or so again ...

None have, to my knowledge, ever robbed people, committed acts of violence, or the like; it strikes me that society ought to reserve serious sanctions for that.

Maybe we're like pigs in the pen.  We don't need good consistent reasons to pick the ones to pick on, we just need the ones to pick on.

[Malthus]

Article sucks, no mention if she is hot.

There's a picture (not a very flattering one, though) in the link.

Oddly enough, women being sentenced to lengthy terms of incarceration rarely look their best.   

[Tamas]

I hope the sex was worth it.

Would you say the same thing to the gay teenagers hanged in Iran few years ago? Because that would make you as douchebaggy.

Thumbs up for waiting until the end of page 1 for your attempt to make yet another thread about gay sex.

[KRonn]

Did I miss something? Why is there even a possibility for a prison sentence for having sex, never mind up to 15 years? Yes, it was in a bit of a public place but does it really deserve a long prison sentence and a sex offender label? We've gone too far with the sex offender stuff, unless there's a lot more to this case but I didn't see it in the article.

[Habbaku]

Because children.

[Malthus]

Because children.

As an aside, I never really understood the hysteria over children maybe witnessing sex.

I know from my own kid that kids prior to puberty typically find sex just gross, have no interest in it - when he's watching a TV show or movie at home and there is any "kissy stuff" as he calls it, he covers his eyes and makes retching noises until it stops. I don't think he's ever seen more than kissing, but I would imagine his reaction would be exactly the same.

What exact harm is witnessing sex supposed to do to them?

[Valmy]

Not sure. My ancestors witnessed their parents doing it several times a week and all they did was colonize the world...huh maybe that is it.

[alfred russel]

They don't look like they have an age difference of 20 years in the picture.

[Caliga]

This is what happens when we hand political power over to the old people, instead of executing them en masse as I have been advising all along.

[Caliga]

They don't look like they have an age difference of 20 years in the picture.

Couldn't that be her lawyer sitting next to her?

[Admiral Yi]

Couldn't that be her lawyer sitting next to her?

Shysters don't take off their jackets.

[Eddie Teach]

She doesn't look 20. Probably because she spends so much time at the beach.