[goldstategop]

Flip it around... Would you consider your 15 year old daughter getting a sexual workout with a mature man? Of course not. You'd be seek his head with a statutory rape charge. Hypocrite.

[sushiman]

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[Chunga]

I'm sorry goldstategop. An adult woman bedding a teenaged male and an adult male bedding a teenaged female aren't the same thing. Not even remotely. American society doesn't see them as being the same. Neither do you.

Don't get me wrong...neither is acceptable and in the Grand Scheme Of Things they're probably equally immoral, especially if the adult in either case is in a position of authority over the youth. But there aren't very many 15-year-old boys who can't overpower any woman who might desire a roll in the hay (should they wish); conversely, there aren't very many 15-year-old girls who can overpower any man who might desire sex with them.

I'm afraid that the Western Psyche, at least, is far more predesposed toward protecting underaged females from the advances of adult men than vice versa. If that's hypocritical, there's no point in singling out Mariner for a tongue-lashing.

[LS]

Er, I hate to tell you but the average marrying age of Westerners until the 20th century was in the teens, usually the EARLY teens. In the time of the American Revolution, it was common for 13-14 year old girls to be married. Marine Antoinette was 15 when she married Louis XVI, and that was considered "old."

Later marriages are a distinctly western, specifically American, development associated largely with the wealth of this country that allowed people to delay marriage, hence sex.

Now, more to the point of the article, where has this guy been? There have been dozens of movies about women seducing young boys (remember "the Graduate?") as well as men secuding younger girls (I seem to remember a Lisa Bonet movie). My only complaint here is that the author acts like this is something new.

[teeman8r]

men are different from women and boys are different from girls.... a 15 year old boy will not suffer emotionally from a concensual heterosexual relationship... MHO of course.

[A. Pole]

Flip it around... Would you consider your 15 year old daughter getting a sexual workout with a mature man? Of course not. You'd be seek his head with a statutory rape charge. Hypocrite.

You are ignorant and your analogy is mistaken. There is huge difference between female and male sexuality despite all feminist propaganda.