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Edmund_Kemper
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Originally, statutory rape was solely a male perpetrator-female victim dynamic by laws. Second wave feminists in the 1970s wanted to change how statutory rape laws worked. They wanted to make it only a felony if the perpetrator is a certain number of years older than the minor and they wanted statutory rape laws to be gender neutral, where male victims and female perpetrators were acknowledged by law. They wanted to make gender neutral laws, rape shield laws so the victim's sexual history was not brought up on trial, grading offenses by severity, and broadening offenses to acts outside penile-vaginal penetration, including other penetration, touching or oral activity (the last being particularly important when it comes to sexual assault of very young children). Feminists also wanted to eliminate the mistake-of-age defense where a man thought an underage girl was over the age of consent (even though that could happen). The drive for gender neutral language in statutory rape laws was successful in all states by 2000.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Me_Too_Feminist_Theory_and_Surviving_Sex/1pPTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=women+boys+statutory+rape+"gender+neutral"+"feminists"&pg=PA101&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Me_Too_Feminist_Theory_and_Surviving_Sex/1pPTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=women+boys+statutory+rape+"gender+neutral"+"feminists"&pg=PA101&printsec=frontcover