[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
yah… let’s not get into other cultures especially as one country just upheld the marriage of an 8yr old to a 47 year old man.
I know. I’m the one who started the thread on PWI condemning it.
let’s not use other nations as an example
I’m not. Hence, “I won’t get into the law outside of the US.”
and just because some things are legal doesn’t mean they are right. It used to be legal to do a lot of things that were wrong.
Quite true. The law once said that it was wrong for a man to have anal sex with his own wife. We all know how mistaken that law is.
However, one must demonstrate why it is “wrong” to have sex with a 16-year old, if the law says that it’s permissible. The only answer I would accept (having rejected the arguments that she hasn’t yet matured physically (yes, she has), legally (yes, she has, with provisos), or emotionally (…uh, no, probably not, but how many women ever do in this culture?) is if a person who was much more advance than her in age, income, political or social power, etc. exerted his coercive powers on her, making her bend to his will and provide sex to him.
But in this case, I’d say that it would be just as “wrong” if she were 16, 26, or 36. In other words, her age is irrelevant.
I get the 16yr old thing, it’s a pervy thing but understandable.
Do you think it’s just as pervy for a 35-year-old woman to sleep with a 16-year-old stud?
but don’t get on all worked up as if it to be held in high regard
Who’s getting worked up? I’m just making conversation.
I didn’t know there was a thread about that in PWI
I am not attracted to 16yr old boys so yah, I would think that would be pervy.
and did you just say women don’t ever mature emotionally?
I do support Romeo and Juliet laws, I am not a fan of 36yr old men dating 16yr old girls.
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I’ll hop on board with it being highly inappropriate/pervy for and adult woman to have sex with a 16 year old boy. Actually make that 17, 18, 19… Okay at the moment anyone under 30 looks dodgy but I don’t believe there are or should be different standards for women than men.