Sex Exploitation, Consensual Sexual Activities, sexual abuse
One of the major challenges that face decision making in sexual exploitation related crimes is the issue of consent. It is hard to determine when sexual relationship if it was consensual or not. Due to such instances, a lot of public awareness should be conducted to educate the public on the difference between sexual exploitation consensual sexual relationships.
Sexual exploitation can be defined as the sexual abuse of children and young people for exchange of sex or sexual favors for money, food, shelter, protection and other basic life needs. Also included in sexual exploitation is involving children and the youth in shooting and creating pornography and explicit sexual websites.
Different criminal codes in states around the world have the minimum age in which sexual activity can be referred to as exploitation. In the Criminal Code of Canada defines sexually exploited young people as to be less than 18 years of old whereas the Child, Family and Community Service Act is applicable for the youth below 19 years of age. The use of children and the youth for sexual acts is abusive and is innately exploitive. Sexual exploitation and nonconsensual sexual contact is one and the same thing.
[...] Another question that creates a controversy in consensual sexual activities debates is the only way to not consent. A disagreement can be shown by word of mouth or by actions that one does not consent. Such actions include trying to leave, or struggling are clear indications of no consent. The police do not charge any assault that comes, as a result, of the struggle to decline a sexual contact. There are cases that a person is so afraid and gives in to sexual activity; this is not consent. [...]
[...] Bibliography Wertheimer, A. (1996). Exploitation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Motivans, M., Kyckelhahn, T., & United States. (2007). Federal prosecution of child sex exploitation offenders Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Nielsen, K., & Ware, R. (1997). Exploitation. Atlantic Highlands, N.J: Humanities Press International. [...]
[...] In summation, many people have confused sexual exploitation with consensual sexual activities because of ignorance. Children are mainly the victims of this controversy and immoral people take advantage of such situations to ask for sexual favors from the children. Never will sexual exploitation activities be defended by claims of consent especially among the children. The public should understand that even if in a marriage, there must be consent to any sexual activity. Any force applied as much as it is a right to have sex, it is considered as rape. [...]
[...] As much as the age of consent is 16 years of age; they are only to engage in consensual sexual activities with someone close to their age. It helps separating consensual activities between young people as criminal offences. For instance, it is not illegal if a person 14 or 15 years old to consent to sexual activity with someone 5 years younger whereas a young person aged between 12 to 13 years of age can consent to sexual activities with someone 2 years younger. However, the law states that children under the age can whatsoever consent to sexual activities. [...]
[...] It is agreeing to sexual activity freely without duress. It is not consensual until it is affirmative that is not the absence of ‘no' but the presence of the word One must be active while the sexual act in that silence is not consent and neither is meager participation. Consensual sexual contact is freely given and not taken or pressured to give away without consent. One could revoke an act of sexual contact at anytime even if one had agreed earlier, further sexual contact after being revoked is defined as non consensual. [...]
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