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Russell Brand admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30 (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 month ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watch as the ole "im not a pedo im actually an ephebophilie, which is totally different and actually normal" argument appears.

[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca -13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

oh yeah it's so much better to demonize an almost totally unrelated population who typically don't even commit sex crimes. It's way better to stigmatize a medical condition that people had no control over, no matter how they actually behave. You sure nipped that problem in the bud, UH-HUH!

Just fucking say child molester. Actual pedophiles are no more likely to commit sex crimes than the general population are.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

Just to be clear, you want us to feel sorry for sexual predators who target children?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

found one

[–] homes@piefed.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s like ringing a bell. One will always come out of the woodwork.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago

I was wondering why he would say that unless he was running for murican goverment. Seems like Age of consent is 16 in Britian so he feels he did nothing legally wrong.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Russell Brand ~~admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30~~ confesses to statutory rape.

Fixed that for ya.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was it? Statutory age varies across the world.

Even if legal, it's creepy as fuck all, but that is still different from statutory

Edit: the article quotes him as saying that's the age in England, implying that's where it occurred. So, creepy as fuck all, but the wrong terminology.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

I’m not one for defending him, and it is fucking weird, but it’s legal here.

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago

You literally made it technically incorrect. The worst kind of incorrect.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

With legal knowledge like this, you could be US Attorney General.