Comments on: Sextortion in High School

By: just me

just me — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:44:59 +0000

I would also think that threatening exposure in exchange for a specified sex act is a sexual assault.

If this young man were threatening girls, i am pretty sure rape would have been somewhere in the headline.

I do wonder though why one would be willing to send naked pics over the net, but then be willing to do a sex act to keep them secret. I almost wonder what it is about kids and the internet that makes them so stupid.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:04:49 +0000

Blackmailed? Whatever happened to the word, choice?

Threatening to engage in criminal acts to coerce slightly less unwanted actions is the very definition of blackmail. "Choice" under coercion is not "choice" at all.

By: DL

DL — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:55:12 +0000

Blackmailed? Whatever happened to the word, choice?

By: Anderson

Anderson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:54:08 +0000

Ah yes, reading would've disclosed that, eh?

Still.

And I'm also with you: given the choice between public humiliation via nude photo and private humiliation via sodomy, the former choice seems pretty easy, ESPECIALLY for a freakin' high school kid. I mean, nowadays, practicing law and married with kids, I might actually have to think about it. Age 17, who cares?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:43:54 +0000

Ah, but they presumably thought they were sending said photos to a chick. Stancl was posting as "Kayla."

By: Anderson

Anderson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:34:57 +0000

Unless being a high school boy has changed a lot in 20 years, any boy who would (1) let a nude photo of himself be taken and (2) send it to another boy, probably objects not so much to gay sex per se as to being forced into gay sex with Tony.