Silly indeed. I've seen dudes doing life in prison just for sleeping with a 17.5 year old girl.
I personally think they should change the legal definitions around so that it's clear as to WHAT the wrongdoing was and WHY the person was being sentenced. For instance, if you go ask a random stranger why pedophilia is bad, I'm 100% sure that either they'd say that it's a deviant activity, or that they're harming the children. If it's "deviant", then 100 years back I'm sure people considered homosexuality as deviant, as well as sex before marriage and even using condoms. So in the end, it's a "history repeating itself" kind of issue. On the other hand, if pedophilia results in harming the children, then wouldn't that be considered as rape? For instance, getting a 10 year old to have sex with you who have no idea what sex is, or having forced intercourse with a 16 year old - those two are situations of rape, no? So really, it's not pedophilia that is wrong, but rather, it's rape that's wrong. If a 17 year old have sex with a 19 year old and they both consent to it, then who the fuck are they exactly harming?
A teacher going around groping 15 year old students is going to be charged with pedophilia, but what if he/she groped 18 year old students instead? Would that be adult-ophilia? My point is, for either case, the teacher has performed sexual assault. It should be person's intent that matters, rather than the age group of the victims. Which is why arresting someone just for sleeping with a person in a different age group without taking into consideration of anything else is... rather silly.
Laws, for the most part, is kind of messed up. A lot of innocent people are put in prison, whereas a lot of truly sick fucks are allowed to run around free. I've been a jury in several animal cruelty/abuse cases, and let me tell you - it doesn't matter what the intent of the crime was, and it doesn't matter if the person was a sadistic monster or something like that. All animal abusers will get no more than 2 years in prison because let's face it - animals can't speak up.
But I digress. Back on topic with the discussion of this "genius" doctor thinking that he knows so much about rape.