Teen gets 10 years in prison for consensual oral sex

This is just so horrible.
A 17 year-old boy in Georgia has been sentenced to ten years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15 year-old girl.
Now, I understand the need for consent laws–but this is why they piss me the fuck off. This poor kid is going to jail for getting a blow job.
Not to mention, there are some serious sexist implications here. Consent laws are overwhelmingly enforced to “protect” young girls, even if some of them don’t need protecting. I find it pretty insulting that any teen girl who has sex is an automatic victim. Not to mention, I wonder if charges would have been brought had he been giving her oral sex instead of the other way around. Just seems to me that if she was being “serviced” the situation may have been different. (This is based on nothing but my random thoughts, of course. I very well could be wrong.)
In any case, this is fucked.

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