Samantha Waterhouse
Samantha Waterhouse is the Parliamentary Programme Coordinator at the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape.
Teen sex law: what changed and why?
Samantha Waterhouse, Naomi Meyer
2013-01-22
"Unfortunately the criminalisation of consensual sexual acts between adolescents, which has been the status quo in this country for decades, has not been shown to have any effect in preventing sexual activity between consenting young people. It does not prevent young people from choosing to engage in sex, nor does it provide them with the tools they need to make healthy decisions."
