"Isn't she a little young?"

[Saint Marcus]

oh and btw I live in virginia

that would do it!

[Whaleboy]

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Agathon
For the record my home town had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world the year

YOU BASTARD!
I always suspected you can from a town of baby rapers!

[Dis]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
i've been attracted to a 14 year old before.

of course, i was 14 at the time, so...

that's no excuse

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Whaleboy

But to define vulnerable is not to specify an age where one is vulnerable then immediately not. What is so different between 15 years 11 months and 16 years 1 month?

Ok and there is not much difference between

15 years 11mo and 15 years 10 mo
15 years 10 and 15-9


and it keeps going and going. there may be 14 years olds more competent to make this decision than some 16 year olds. There may be some 12 year olds more competent than some 14 year olds. there may be some 10 year olds more competent to make the decision than some 12 year olds etc

BUT

if you accept that the atate has an interest in preventing people having sex with children ( and if you don't then all children would be legally available if the consented SHUDDER) then there are really only two options

1. an admittedly arbitrary age of consent-- it is consistent and knowable-- it protects people that need protecting. Only downsides are that immature older people may still be exploited and ( not sure this is a downside) some more mature younger persons may have to delay sexual contact with an older person.

2. Individual assessment?? I'm not even sure how this would work .. . a maturity test ?? and who does the testing and how? Remember always that there are pedophiles out there that will be looking to screw with any testing method you come up with because imagine if they could LEGALLY exploit that 8 year old they had their eyes on . and why not, she " consented" when you promised her a barbie doll and a candy bar

[Inlecebrae]

Make way for the teen!

I’m set to be 16 in a few months time, and I can’t say I was ready to decide to have sex last year, or even now. Most of the girls I know that are having sex early on in their life are experiencing it drunk, stoned and sometimes both. These are the children who make themselves ‘look older’ in order to go to a club, get served alcohol and pull, so they can brag about it to their friends back at school. They usually end up being the kids who get bad exam results and have a career in Tesco and the like.
That said, I tend to go for older men as ‘partners’ and encourage my peers to do the same. Embarking on a sexually active relationship with one of them at this age is not something I am wholly prepared to do; I would not like to be responsible for sending my man to prison for a bit of kinky fun. Argue maturity as much as you like, but if they’re mature enough to decide to have sex, shouldn’t they be mature enough to respect the law?

[Dis]

[Spiffor]

Dis the mental picture of Michael Moore doing the DL dance is unsettling

[Whaleboy]

Flubber: While my method may be unworkable I still think it's better

Dis the mental picture of Michael Moore doing the DL dance is unsettling

She's called "temptations" and her sig says that failing philosophers should translate to latin. Welcome to the OT

[Jon Miller]

ie

she is your DL

Jo Miller

[Whaleboy]

A rudimentary understanding of latin, gleaned mostly from obsessive Year 10 history teachers, does not constitute a DL

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Inlecebrae
Make way for the teen!

We already have several arguing in this thread me included

[Inlecebrae]

My knowledge of latin comes from singing it, and it consists of not a whole lot. My name and my sig were both cut and paste jobs from the net I'm afraid...

[Kuciwalker]

Welcome to the Apolyton OTF!

[Dis]

Originally posted by Kucinich
Welcome to the Apolyton OTF!

does a DL really need a welcome?