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May seem ridiculous, Chris, but many southeastern European countries' cultures -- especially in rural areas -- have a husband lined up for a girl by the time she's 7 or 8, and usually married off by 10 or 11. One American anthropologist who went over there discovered many of those girls/women had never had their periods, having gotten pregnant before they had a chance to go through their first one, and not getting any breaks. Yeek.
Epoch -- thanks for the clarification. Cool. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of teenagers' existence as individuals, and weren't just regarding them with the sort of blanket condescension I've seen in a lot of adults (who seem to have forgotten their own teen years, and that children are merely small humans and not mental defectives).
TSN -- That wasn't what I was saying at all. I'm just saying that, like many things people tend to take for granted, the age of consent is not some carefully-researched and scientifically-consistent Law of Nature. And that, like all things we have a tendancy to accept dogmatically, it should be examined and challenged to determine its worth and validity.
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And just think: A few more months, and he'd have been safe.
The AoC in PA is 16.
quote:Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes CRIMES AND OFFENSES (TITLE 18) PART II. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC OFFENSES. CHAPTER 31. SEXUAL OFFENSES Subchapter B. Definition Of Offenses � 3122.1. Statutory sexual assault. Except as provided in section 3121 (relating to rape), a person commits a felony of the second degree when that person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant under the age of 16 years and that person is four or more years older than the complainant and the complainant and the person are not married to each other.
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But it was in Maryland, where it's also 16. And they STILL would have pushed it, I bet.
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16 here too, in RI, although if you piss off someone's parents i'm pretty sure you can still get in lotsa trouble. when i was arrested with Asia, i found that if she had been a few months younger i wouldve hada lot more charges.
depends on the parents though, when i was 19, my friend Julie was 14 and i always hung out at her house, parents didn't give a shit. as the world falls apart, the first thing that goes is family structure.. unlucky when you fall for a girl with concerned parents.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: One American anthropologist who went over there discovered many of those girls/women had never had their periods, having gotten pregnant before they had a chance to go through their first one
It's been a while since A-level Biology, but...how exactly does that work then?
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Each cycle, woman is fertile for a relatively set amount of time. (Apparently if she's fertile for much longer than that, it's not very healthy.) When that amount of time ends, she has a period. Repeat ad menopause. So a girl's first period is actually the END of her first fertility cycle.
Of course, I was under the impression that a girl wasn't actually fertile during her first few cycles, but what do I know?
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Neither of them sound good for topics for friendly chatter.
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Well, that depends on with whom you're speaking, no?
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Good god almighty! I haven't seen this many malcontents since, well... last time I was here. I'm glad everyone feels like trivial things like the law should be brushed aside willy nilly.
You have sex with a minor, you go to jail. Don't like it? Don't break the law. Don't like the law, work to change it. As Omega put it, the heart is no defense. If it was, I'd have killed Omega long ago. But I didn't, why? I don't want to go to jail.
I'm shocked so many here have come out against the law. Do any of you realize what it would be like without the law? Omega here would be dead, killed by one of us. Wait, that hurts my argument. Well, Simon surely would've been chewed up by now, his spindly frame rotting amidst a pile of Camper Von Beethoven CDs, murdered for his glasses by a myopic marauder. Does anyone want to see that?
And allow me to explain to Liam: see, women bleed from their na-nas every now and then, and babies come from their na-nas!
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