[Jim Noble]

In what percentage of the cases of teen sex between sixteen or seventeen year-olds and fourteen or fifteen year-olds do you think those laws were enforced?

Enough to act as a deterrent.

[bannie]

Knowing that the father would beat the crap out of you is probably the best deterrant.

Kids know that "the law" will let them go...that their parents will rescue them from the legal system.

Knowing that her dad will smash your nose in is "immediate gratification." Today's kids KNOW about "immediate gratification."

[Will88]

“Enough to act as a deterrent.”

A ridiculous statement. Neither you nor anyone else could know how many teens in NY, one sixteen or older, and the other under sixteen, have sex and never tell anyone who might think consent laws must be enforced. The overwhelming majority of teens near the same age won’t be worrying about the law. They’ll just keep quiet.

This requires some commons sense. If one is eighteen and another thirteen or fourteen, that’s different from two kids a couple of years, or only a few months apart in age.

But you didn’t answer: If two classmates a few months apart have sex while one is over and one under the age of consent, should the older be charged with statutory rape? (It could be the boy or girl.)

Come on, apply the law.