In “Girl Who Played with Fire”, who was the person, with a small goatee and glasses, who had Lisbeth strapped to bed at the beginning of the book (on her 13th Birthday)?

Many thanks to whoever can advise.

Mikedanben

Godspeed You!

Internet Lawyer

What I find very irritating is that a company like TIM which was banned from Folsom Street Fair (for example) is doing a lot of censorship on their own message boards. There people are not allowed to say what they want…. then how exactly does TIM document gay men’s lives? I remember that one of their actors made a racist remark on the message board, when that was criticized the entire messages got deleted. And this happens quite often over there.

It’s also interesting that many countries across Europe have an age of consent lower than 15: France [15], Spain [13], Italy [14], Germany [15], Poland [15], Denmark [15], The Czech Republic [15], Bulgaria [14], Sweden [15], Portugal [14] etc, so if a 20 year old has consensual sex with a 15 year old in France then it will cause no problem for those concerned, whereas if a 20 year old has consensual sex with a 15 year old in England then that 20 year old could be labelled a sexual predator, or a paedophile, be placed on the sex offenders register, and essentially have his life, and the lives of his family, ruined — not to mention the fact that he would no doubt be subjected to a lifetime of discrimination, abuse, or even physical violence.

I wonder how many people currently on the UK sex offenders register were convicted on the basis of engaging in an act of consensual sex with a 14 or 15 year old, and who in fact pose no threat to anyone, and have never molested or abused anybody in their lives? I imagine that lowering the age of consent to a more reasonable age would halve the number of registred sex offenders and free up the police to focus their attentions on those people who actually pose some sort of risk, whilst at the same time allowing people who are no danger to anyone to get on with their lives and establish healthy relationships in the future.

I believe there should be a single standardized law applied across all of Europe, and that a reasonable age of consent – in light of all the current sociological and scientific research – should be 14.