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The New “Romeo and Juliet” Law in Texas

June 7th, 2011

A new law has just been passed in Texas that is sure to ruffle some feathers, particularly for social conservatives. Really it’s more of an amendment to existing law and I’m not sure where I stand on this one. It’s been nicknamed the Romeo and Juliet law. It basically lowers the age of consent for teenagers from eighteen to fifteen and protects the consensual partner from prosecution on statutory rape charges, through the age of nineteen. Here’s the upside: under the current law, anyone who had sex in high school or immediately out of school who happened to be at least eighteen and had sex with a younger student could be prosecuted and wind up on the state sex offender list indefinitely. Obviously, this precludes him or her from all kinds of work, and will follow the offender where ever they go. It also inflates the sex offender numbers making it difficult to distinguish a potential threat from someone who merely made a mistake as an adolescent.

We’ve all heard horror stories about young people being put on the state’s list, despite eventually marrying their “victims.” I don’t know how often that kind of thing happens, but I don’t deem anyone who had sex as an adolescent to be a threat to my loved ones. Of course many social conservatives (with whom I often agree mind you), will argue that this merely continues to make society more permissive. Now, I’m willing to be taken to task on this but, I really don’t think this legal change is going to result in increased promiscuity. How many teens are really holding off on sex due to the threat of prosecution? All the new law really does is highlight the unfortunate lais·sez-faireapproach to sexuality that is predominate in our society. It’s not government’s job to inculcate values into our families. An old governmental principle states that a leader should never make a law he is unable to enforce. That’s what the statutory rape laws had become, largely unenforceable. As I see it, all the state of Texas did, was make the law enforceable.

Men Can Expect more estrogen when using HCG Hormones

February 8th, 2011

Estrogen in MenThe age old debate of the differences between men and women has come into our hcg hormone weight loss program. Everything from sports to business to politics to sexuality has breached the subject, so now it’s our time.

Interestingly enough research into the subject has been more about the different uses of HCG between men and women than what are the differences in the HCG injections for weight loss. These other uses include, for men the increase of testosterone and for women increase of fertility.

Should a man use HCG Hormones to lose weight?

The greatest difference seems to be a large chasm of different side effects. For men, the main risks are an enlarging of the prostrate and an uncomfortable enlargement of the prostrate due, mostly, to high levels of estrogen in the hormone.

Now, for women the side effects are contracting Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS), as well as cases of increasing chance of pregnancy and creating multiple ovrum. When it comes to the weight loss itself observations have shown differences, although these observations have not been thoroughly investigated.

According to some comparisons observations have been made of men losing almost twice as much weight as the women starting the program at the same time. The theory is that because men have more muscle mass to burn the calories, the HCG diet protocol allows more calories to be burnt up as muscle burns calories.

Although not researched, it is also speculated that the 500-800 calorie a day diet recommended in the program would cause greater struggles for a male as men tend to use more calories throughout a day. Based on these observations, overall opinion can be that, as stated, the HCG diet protocol would be equally productive for both men and women.

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