aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, March 29, 2007

The new safe sex

Efforts in the Georgia legislature to review the case of Genarlow Wilson have failed for this year - so he sits in jail convicted of aggravated child molestation for consensual sex he had at age 17 with a 15 year old girl. His lawyer is out speaking to young people:

B.J. Bernstein is an attorney who is giving new meaning to the term “safe sex.”

“None of us really thinking about it,” said Bernstein. “It’s not something we think about—going to jail, especially if we agree to do it.” [...]

Bernstein said she believes most teenagers simply don’t know the law. Her campaign to inform includes the rap group D4L.

She also has a website—http://www.my5th.org/. It includes details of every Georgia law that involves young people and sex—including a warning about what could happen if, say, a high school senior was dating a freshman.