 At the third annual Singapore Children 's Society Lecture entitled " Changing Social Mores : Protecting Children from Themselves ? " on 31 October 2009 , Woon expressed the view that prosecuting teenagers from having underage sex with each other served little purpose . " It 's basically kids having sex ... What do you do if the couple think they 're in love ? It 's less easy if the girl consents . ... The judges cannot do very much by themselves . Sending them [ the teenagers ] to jail per se will not make them reflect on their lives . That is the last thing that is going to happen . But good or ill , this is the framework that we have . " 
