In April 2021, after musician and COVID-19 denier Ted Nugent announced that he had fallen ill with the disease he once dismissed as a hoax, social media users started talking about the "Motorcity Madman's" alleged checkered history. Some, for instance, claimed that Nugent was a draft dodger. Others claimed that Nugent had previously dated underage girls:
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When Nugent was 30 years old, he started a relationship with a 17-year-old named Pele Massa. While the relationship may not have been illegal according to Hawaii's laws (the state's law at the time prohibited sexual contact with a girl under 16 years old), Massa would have been considered underage in several other states. Furthermore, it would have been illegal for Nugent and Massa to marry in Hawaii. This, according to VH1's "Behind the Music," spurred Nugent to convince Massa's parents to sign papers that would make him her legal guardian.
We have not been able to independently verify that Nugent became Massa's legal guardian. The musician does say in the following clip that he "got the stamp of approval of their parents," but this appears to be a general reference to other young girls Nugent dated, not a reference specifically to the legal issues of marrying Massa.
NARRATOR: Ted admits to a number of liaisons with underage girls and while it may have raised eyebrows it never raised the interest of local authorities. Ted charmed the girl's parents right along with his teenage lovers, and in the case of Pele, her mother signed papers making Ted her legal guardian.
While Nugent may have been, in his words, "addicted" to young girls, it's unclear if these relationships were illegal. As far as we can tell, Nugent has never been charged with having sex with an underage girl. It should be noted, however, that Nugent has been informally accused of such activity. In 2004, singer Courtney Love claimed during an interview on "The Howard Stern Show" that she had a sexual encounter with Nugent when she was 12.
Two years before recording "Jailbait," Ted Nugent had the novel idea of becoming legal guardian to a 17-year-old girl, so that they could have sex without, you know, her parents having legal recourse. They acquiesced. "I guess they figured better Ted Nugent than some drug-infested punk in high school," he told VH1, years later. In the same documentary, he claimed to have had several relationships with young girls, and seems to brag about gaining their parents' approval, too. (Though he didn't go so far as to adopt any of them.)
That sounds... an awful lot like that line in "Jailbait." You know, the one just before he urges the cop to handcuff the girl so they can both rape her. Wrap your mind around that for a moment: the man wrote, recorded and released a semi-autobiographical pedophile joke. And then campaigned with Rick Perry.
Okay, okay. Seventeen is not 13. I'm not going to pretend that it is, or that an adult relationship with a 17-year-old is proof that someone is a hebephile who will have sex with a 13-year-old. It isn't a good sign, but interest in post-pubescent girls is hardly an indicator that someone likes to have sex with pre-pubescent girls. Let's face it: all of your favorite rock stars from days gone by were having sex with underage groupies. And almost every man who isn't a rock star has at least unwittingly fantasized about doing it. (The most common word in porn titles is "teen," and if you think that all of those teens are really of legal age, you are incredibly naïve.)
Still, he doesn't say, "Because I wouldn't have had sex with a 12-year-old." He just denies recalling it. That's very disturbing. I've met 30-year-olds who could pass for 15 and 15-year-olds who could pass for 30, but I have never met a 12-year-old girl who could pass for 18. Puberty is pretty key in that regard. Rather than deny that he would have done it, Ted Nugent wrote a semi-autobiographical novelty song about how he'd have liked to. He doesn't seem to see it as a very serious allegation.
The play describes the connections between two fifteen-year-old girls and two thirty-year-old men. Emmy, played by Ally Lardner, and Mark, played by Peter Dunn, meet at a club, and they agree to bring friends for a double date. Emmy brings her friend Claire, played by Isabelle Walkey, and Mark brings Robert, played by Miki Peiffer. The show focuses on the teenagers mingling with the men in a Boston club and them risking their friendship for adventure.
The show dealt with difficult topics like underage sex and teenage sexuality. We see two vulnerable young girls being taken advantage of by two older men. At various points, the girls experimented with alcoholic drinks. The show discussed uncomfortable topics, conveying a message that is not talked about often.
The contrast between the characters of Emmy and Claire added to the complex nature of the show. Both girls started with similarly girly, bubbly personalities. They devised ways to meet up with the men through passionate discussions. The deep eye contact they made with each other helped the audience feel their connection.
In the 12th century, Gratian, the influential compiler of canon law in medieval Europe, accepted the age of puberty for marriage to be around twelve for girls and around fourteen for boys but acknowledged consent to be meaningful if both children were older than seven years of age.[4] There were authorities that said that such consent for entering marriage could take place earlier. Marriage would then be valid as long as neither of the two parties annulled the marital agreement before reaching puberty, or if they had already consummated the marriage. Judges sometimes honored marriages based on mutual consent at ages younger than seven: in contrast to established canon, there are recorded marriages of two- and three-year-olds.[3]
The American colonies followed the English tradition, and the law was more of a guide. For example, Mary Hathaway (Virginia, 1689) was only nine when she was married to William Williams.[6] Sir Edward Coke "made it clear that the marriage of girls under 12 was normal, and the age at which a girl who was a wife was eligible for a dower from her husband's estate was 9 even though her husband be only four years old."[3]
In the 16th century, a small number of Italian and German states set the minimum age for sexual intercourse for girls, setting it at twelve years. Towards the end of the 18th century, other European countries also began to enact similar laws. The first French Constitution of 1791 established the minimum age at eleven years. Portugal, Spain, Denmark and the Swiss cantons initially set the minimum age at ten to twelve years.[5]
There is debate as to whether the gender of those involved should lead to different treatment of the sexual encounter, in law or in practice. Traditionally, age of consent laws regarding vaginal intercourse were often meant to protect the chastity of unmarried girls.[5] Many feminists and social campaigners in the 1970s have objected to the social importance of virginity, and have also attempted to change the stereotypes of female passivity and male aggression; demanding that the law protect children from exploitation regardless of their gender, rather than dealing with concerns of chastity. This has led to gender-neutral laws in many jurisdictions.[5] On the other hand, there is an opposing view which argues that the act of vaginal intercourse is an "unequal act" for males and females, due to issues such as pregnancy, increased risk of STDs,[47] and risk of physical injury if the girl is too young and not physically ready. In the US, in Michael M. v. Superior Ct.450 U.S. 464 (1981) it was ruled that the double standard of offering more legal protection to girls is valid because "the Equal Protection Clause does not mean that the physiological differences between men and women must be disregarded".[48]
Traditionally, many age of consent laws dealt primarily with men engaging in sexual acts with underage girls and boys (the latter acts often falling under sodomy and buggery laws). This means that in some legal systems, issues of women having sexual contact with underage partners were rarely acknowledged. For example, until 2000, in the UK, before the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000, there was no statutory age of consent for lesbian sex.[49] In New Zealand, before 2005, there were no age of consent laws dealing with women having sex with underage boys.[50] Previously, in Fiji, male offenders of child sexual abuse could receive up to life imprisonment, whilst female offenders would receive up to seven years.[51] Situations like these have been attributed to societal views on traditional gender roles, and to constructs of male sexuality and female sexuality; according to E Martellozzo, "[V]iewing females as perpetrators of sexual abuse goes against every stereotype that society has of women: women as mothers and caregivers and not as people who abuse and harm".[52] Alissa Nutting argues that women are not acknowledged as perpetrators of sex crimes because society does not accept that women have an autonomous sexuality of their own.[53]
Jailbait images can be differentiated from child pornography, as they do not feature minors before the onset of puberty, nor do they contain nudity.[57][58] The images are, however, usually sexualized,[57] often featuring tween or young teenagers in bikinis, skirts,[59] underwear or lingerie.[60] Whether or not these images are legal is debated. When questioned regarding their legality legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated he thought it was not illegal, though legal expert Sunny Hostin was more skeptical, describing jailbait images as "borderline" child pornography which may be illegal.[61][62]
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