New Jersey Lawmaker Tries To Make Lying For Sex Punishable By Charge Of Rape

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/rape_by_fraud_nj_lawmaker_introduces_bill_to_make_it_a_crime.html

NJ.com-  Imagine this: A man woos a woman to bed with tales of his riches, fast cars and a vacation home in Monaco. But he actually lives in his mother’s basement.

Or this: A seemingly wealthy widow convinces a younger man to sleep with her on the notion that they may marry and he’ll inherit her money. In reality, she’s broke.

In both cases, someone lied about his or her status in order to have sex with someone else.

Under a bill recently proposed by a south Jersey lawmaker, such actions would not only be considered dishonest. They could prompt charges of rape. 

This is the most spiteful shit I have ever heard of. How loveless is this guy's marriage? Probably hasn't had non-anniversary sex since Y2K, and now he's trying to take it out on us. Make no mistake, this is about as close as you can get to criminalizing sex. Almost every gender based interaction includes some form of deception, especially upon first meeting. I am not saying everyone flat out lies to get sex, but they certainly stretch the truth. Now every misleading thing said over a couple drinks is worthy of a rape charge? 

Listen, when you strike up a conversation with woman her first instinct is 'no'. You need that attention grabber to keep them interested. Not every guy has a "I'm a doctor" or a "I drive a Mercedez" in their back pocket. Sometimes you have to be economical with the truth to make yourself sound like a good decision. Furthermore, men aren't the only ones that do it. As the saying goes, men lie, women lie, rape allegations don't. You don't see me turning around with a court order every time I hear "I'm not crazy" or "I'm a great cook". You know why people don't make a big deal of it when they are misled into the sheets? Because everyone has exaggerated their resume at one time or another. Where do we draw the line? Must we all be put under oath before indulging in some ill conceived drunken sex? 

I usually say this in jest, but it's starting to come to fruition. It's almost to the point where everything is rape now. You would literally have to divulge your social security number and converse over a polygraph machine to engage in causal sex that doesn't result in legal action. Let me get this straight, lying to get someone into bed and rape both result in sex, so now they are one and the same? That's like saying saying murder and suicide are synonymous phenomenons because they both result in death. Sure, both are morally questionable, but one is a choice. A 5-20 year sentence for lying? Didn't I read somewhere that our prisons are full? Better get the architects on the horn, we are going to need to turn New Jersey into a police state.

"Sexual assault by fraud", by definition, falls about 30 yards short of making any sense at all. Assault is dependent upon a psychically violent action. You know anyone currently serving a "verbal assault" charge? Why don't we stick to prosecuting actual tangible crimes, instead of imprisoning people based on their moral compass. Consensual is consensual, whether you're a lawyer or a janitor.

P.S. Old salt-n-pepper over here should be glad any one decided to marry her, whether they were blue collar or living out a garbage bag. Trust me lady, you would need to reconfigure the definition of rape for it to be of any danger to you.