For everyone: Would you consider a guy who was 22 dating a 16-year old "immoral?"

I meet a girl who's just my type, and wouldn't you know it... =\

EDIT: We AREN'T talking about sex, baby. Just dating. Dating. No sex. Got it? 'kay.

[ 08-06-2003: Message edited by: Sentow, Maybe ]

My parents have been married for almost 20 years... My dad's 65, and my mom is 45....

[ 08-06-2003: Message edited by: Savannah / Emily ]

Society be damned

16/22 is a tough split.

I'm kidding.

Just be careful you don't get thrown in jail for statchatory or however the pigs spell it.l

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Nobody really understood why Drysart wrote:
Use the ol' "divide by 2 then add 7" rule.

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So if you're 6, you can date someone 10?

-_- I don't like our society, but I live by it. Anybody a year younger than me is pretty much not in the picture of romantic possibility for me, simply because I am legally an 'adult' and over a year younger is just -really- risky. *Shrugs*

But do what ya like, just be careful. And remember... she's still young and probably fickle.

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LeMiere thought about the meaning of life:
It's a potential legal case in which you'd be pinned without say. Whether it -really- involved sex or not.

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Actually, it's a gray area. In most states, the age of legal consent is 16, and the national age of majority is 18. That means that you can legally have sex at 16, but you can't be filmed having sex (or smoke a cigarette after) for another two years.

Because of that, statutory rape laws really only affect kids under the age of legal consent (IE 15 and under), and are only enforced when it's not a violent rape (which usually falls under harsher-penalty laws). But broadly speaking, if you boink someone under 16, you will be going to jail; how long depends on willingness to participate and your age (in some states, Statutory Rape can only be someone 16-19 years old having sex with someone under 16 years of age, due to the haziness of consent, and anyone 20+ gets the full fledged whammy).

That having been said, a 16 year old is legally old enough to consent to have sex with anyone 16+. However, I don't know that it's a terribly brilliant idea. Broadly speaking, when you get to be around my age or so (24), you start to realize that while it was fun to have sex when you were 16ish, you weren't really ready to deal with (at 16) the consequences that having sex could have ended up leading to (IE a baby, the disruption of your education which is even more vital, the robbing you of your solo "you" time before settling down, etc).

So would I castrate a 22 year old guy seeing a 16 year old? Nope. Would I as a parent want my 16 year old, minor daughter who I am legally and financially responsible for sleeping with a 22 year old who has greater opportunities to leave if things go south, no matter what he professes to feel for her? No, I wouldn't.

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Sentow, Maybe's fortune cookie read:
For the girls: If you were 16, would you date a guy who was 22?

For everyone: Would you consider a guy who was 22 dating a 16-year old "immoral?"

I meet a girl who's just my type, and wouldn't you know it... =\

EDIT: We AREN'T talking about sex, baby. Just dating. Dating. No sex. Got it? 'kay.

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/shrug

If she means that much to you, wait a couple years. Chaperone of some sort = good idea.

But thats just me.

I think the main reason situations like that are frowned apon is cause people believe that they are doing it just for sex, which is of course Illegal.

Anyway, thank you for presenting your viewpoints Anyone else who'd like to speak up, go for it.

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Nobody really understood why Drysart wrote:
Use the ol' "divide by 2 then add 7" rule.

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as weird as it sounds, that actually kinda makes sense in a bizarre sort of way.... even to the extreme borders....

[ 08-07-2003: Message edited by: diadem ]

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Drysart painfully thought these words up:
Use the ol' "divide by 2 then add 7" rule.

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I thought that was for term papers...

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Savannah / Emily had this to say about Duck Tales:
I feel like flaming Lemmy for what he said, but I.... can't here.

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TO FLAMEBALL WITH YOU!! AWAY!!

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Gydfather stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I thought that was for term papers...

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for me it's "multiply the required number of pages by 2, add your age"