Re: Pissin the boat
Be careful. While the idea of tough sex offender laws is good, the application can be a disaster. Crude mistakes of judgment such as peeing in public, pranks like mooning or streaking, childish stuff like a teenager looking in someone's window can get them put in the "indecent exposure" or other "sex offense" box and then, even though the act had nothing whatsoever to do with sex, the person is screwed for life--registering any time he moves, disclosing on job apps, can't work with any youth organizations (coaching, youth group, etc) can't get certain jobs (teaching), can't get an apartment or into a dorm. Overkill in too many cases, causing more harm than good, because common sense has been written out of the laws and taken away from the judges.