“Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser” (nytimes):
The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault … Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.
… the 2013 hotel-room encounter was a betrayal that precipitated a spiral of emotional problems, according to the documents.
Mr. Bennett’s notice of intent asked for $3.5 million in damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery. Mr. Bennett made more than $2.7 million in the five years before the 2013 meeting with Ms. Argento, but his income has since dropped to an average of $60,000 a year, which he attributes to the trauma that followed the sexual encounter with Ms. Argento, his lawyer wrote.
Ms. Argento asked the family member to leave so she could be alone with the actor. She gave him alcohol to drink…
For my late-1970s high school classmates, drinking alcohol and having sex were popular after-school activities (albeit not with movie stars). Today, however, it seems that an afternoon of consented-to sex can result in millions of dollars of harm to a teenager. Assuming that sexual activity among the young tracks the age of consent, I wonder if we should be able to see a correlation between age of consent and economic output. European countries have different ages of consent (Wikipedia), typically within a range of 14-16. Most U.S. states set the age at 16 (Wikipedia), but there are a substantial number at 17 or 18.
[Separately, I wonder if Donald Trump is running a time machine. When the New York Times accuses him of having encounters ]with various paid women back in 2006, these are reported as recent event. Yet for Ms. Argento, sex in 2013 is “years earlier” when viewed from the perspective of 2017. Does time move at a different pace for Donald Trump than for other people?]
Readers: Could teenage sexual activity explain the U.S.’s lackluster GDP per capita growth rate?
Related:
- “Judge awards $1MILLION to Oklahoma boy who had sex with his eighth-grade English teacher in her classroom” (Daily Mail): The judge wrote in her opinion that the child ‘reported feelings of depression, isolation and self-blame,’ and that he felt humiliated after news of his sexual relationship with the teacher spread. [The school district paid out $125,000 as well.]
That poor 17yr boy, imagine the horrors that he endured by having a tryst with a beautiful actress. How will he ever recover? Maybe the $370k will help?
More than a few decades ago in a small farming town my father got caught shagging his high-school teacher. The fallout? He was blamed for seducing her, expelled from that school, and had to finish 12th grade in a school 30 miles away; she continued teaching (with her reputation a bit tarnished).
The only thing better than him getting to have sex with her was that he got to have sex with her and was paid for it.
He said he was “traumatized.” I was also traumatized when a beautiful woman stopped being intimate with me. I could not focus on anything for an entire summer. But I was 26 at the time. It happens to everyone – he just doesn’t know it, and blamed it on his age, and shook her down for money – shameful.
The output is only going to be proportional to the age of consent if you tax it appropriately. Without a proper taxation, it’s all wrong! (The math is wrong: check it out.)
> Could teenage sexual activity explain the U.S.’s lackluster GDP per capita growth rate?
Well, almost: the correct explanation is that we fail to tax (re-)productive activities the way we should. We really need a millionaires’ tax now to make this work.
This also explains why importing sexually active immigrants is economically sound: they pay taxes and contribute to our economy.
> Separately, I wonder if Donald Trump is running a time machine
This shows how Trump hurts our economy. Unlike, say, Buffet, he is not willing to pay his fair share. He also tried to backdate his taxable sexual encounters.
You missed the part where her boyfriend Anthony Bourdain actually paid the money. Imagine having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the teen who slept with your girlfriend and then you find out she’s cheating on you while you were away filming. Might make a man mighty upset!
There is another allegation that Asia sent unsolicited nude photos to a comedian:
https://theblast.com/asia-argento-jeff-leach-metoo-nude-photos-podcast/
#metooplease
I’m sorry but is Asia Argento actually ‘beautiful’? She seems more like an attic-based madwoman to me.
Just shows how much the failing NY times hates our great president! Donald Trump did not invent a time machine all he did was piss off a bunch of liberals!
Bill Burr fanning the flames again on women…
Bill Burr Thinks Women Are Overrated:
Best comments:
“I miss tougher parenting and evidence” – Bill Burr, 2018
Bill Burr: “I believe in evidence and due process”
Audience: “BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!”
I’m with Tom. Not only is Asia not beautiful compared to women her own age, but can’t even compete with the average 17 year old girl.