...is not in a gray area. Age of Consent laws are indeed murky, but whether its 16, or 17 or 18, 13 is not even close to that. Roman Polanski sodomized a 13 year old girl after he gave her drugs and alcohol. He belongs in prison.

And I think it funny that the XX factor writer would admit that she didn't know much about the Polanski case and then comment anyway. Sort of sums up the mission statement of Slate in general really.