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To: DAnconia55
Am I to take it that you would also get rid of statutory rape laws, including those protecting 14-year-old boys?
193 posted on 06/29/2003 6:35:23 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
Am I to take it that you would also get rid of statutory rape laws, including those protecting 14-year-old boys?

Now? No.
I understand the legal theory that says a 14 yr boy cannot legally consent to sex. But in reality I can't see how it hurts. I sure was trying my ass off at 14 to get laid.

Perhaps someday. Dunno.

Although its chauvanistic of me, I'm not sure the law should be changed for girls.

But I also don't see anything wrong with an age of consent of 16. (Britain has it. Italy is 14.). Their bodies can reproduce, and this age was MORE than good enough for the first 2,000 years of "Christian" history. But only in Puritan America has it been changed.
The idea of an 18 yr and one day boy going to jail for sleeping with his 17 yr old and 300 day old girlfriend bothers me.

But then again, it didn't stop me when I had an adult girlfriend as a minor, either :)

207 posted on 06/29/2003 6:57:17 PM PDT by DAnconia55
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