Just saying, while many will disagree, there are many people who are biologically equipped by mother nature herself to be sexually active at 14 or 15 or 16 or 17. When King tut was alive the average lifespan was 14. In the year 1900, the average AMERICAN lifespan was 47. I know some of you out there say you were not interested in the opposite sex until you were 18, the reality is that you are VERY uncommon. And if you are literary, just read a few Jane Austin books. Clearly all her characters would be registering as sex offenders. Except for the older sister who always is a spinster at age 21 in every book. Brook Sheiled was quite nude at 12.
The reality is that sex is a bad idea. You can catch things. You are too young to have a relationship in your teens. The longer you can put it off the better. Your mom was right about that. But spending the next 60 years registering as a sex offender is not right either. They should just be grounded for a week. However if the guy was selling the picks as porn. You can let him rot in a cell.
Yep! In Pride & Prejudice, Mrs. Bennett congratulates herself on having married off a daughter at 16.