musamize ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lower consent age � Dr. Tamale
RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Dr. Tamale
By Chris Kiwawulo
THE consent age should be lowered from 18 to 14 years so that older adolescents can enjoy sex, Makerere University law faculty dean Dr. Sylvia Tamale has said.
�Boys and girls are more sexually active at 16 years and above. They should be allowed to have sex to enjoy its pleasure,� she said.
Tamale warned the public against thinking about sex in terms of procreation and morals. She said 99% of people had sex for pleasure and not for procreation.
She was reacting to the Uganda Women Lawyers (FIDA) secretary general, Juliet Amutojo, who said 16-year-old girls� bodies were not ready for conception.
Tamale was addressing a dialogue on child sexual abuse organised by FIDA at Kampala International Conference Centre recently.
She suggested that he degree of proof on defilement cases be lowered.
Tamale said fondling should be defined as defilement and should carry an equivalent punishment.
The Director of Public Prosecut ion, Richard Buteera, supported Tamale on the age of consent, saying girls aged between 16 and 18 years frustrated court cases by refusing to testify against their lovers.Published on: Tuesday, 23rd November, 2004
ps: I am no prude but me thinketh that, in the face of a full-blown and raging AIDS epidemic, the doctor is wrong.__________________________________________________
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