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To: OldDeckHand
I was a 17 year-old "dating" (that's what we called it back then, I think the kids call it something else today) a 24 year-old grad student. ... As you point out, there is a difference between teenage boys and teenage girls.

So if the sex's were reversed and you were girl, the guy would have been a sexual predator and should be imprisoned?

41 posted on 07/04/2009 5:53:22 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Doe Eyes
"So if the sex's were reversed and you were girl, the guy would have been a sexual predator and should be imprisoned?"

No. I don't think that a seven year age difference, especially when the younger party is so close to 18, constitutes sexual predation.

As I said, it's a lapse of judgment in the extreme, and jobs should be lost and teaching certificates revoked, but there's no "victim" here - unless of course the person in authority used her authority in a coercive manner. Then that's a completely other circumstance.

54 posted on 07/04/2009 6:07:27 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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