[JimRed]

A 27 year old having sex with a 17 year old isn’t quite as bad as some of what we’ve seen...

I was still 17 for my first couple of months in the Navy, and would have not been at all displeased by such an opportunity.

[Snickering Hound]

17 is age of consent in Texas.

But these teacher laws were written for the ‘Clutch my pearls!’ crowd so even if he was 19, she’d be looking at a felony.

Newt Gingrich’s teacher and first wife would have served time in Texas today.

[Skooz]

I was still 17 for my first couple of months in the Navy, and would have not been at all displeased by such an opportunity.

When my dad was 17 he was a tail gunner on a B-29 over North Korea. I think this kid will recover from the "trauma."

The moral aspect aside, this is much ado about nothing.

[xrmusn]

I was still 17 for my first couple of months in the Navy
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I went in shortly after my 17th bday in ‘56 and ‘discovered’ Tijuana about 4 months later hit Hawaii and Japan by the time I was 18....