Age of Consent

Lol @ Yemen

Well 9 sounds bad, but as long as your married :roll:

BTW, 14 in Canada… you dirty hosers!

Geez it’s a rough life in Madagascar

@dezrtfish:

BTW, 14 in Canada… you dirty hosers!

my feelings are fairly ambivalent in this regard. 
For one - i’m not really sure that this is something that the gov’t should be, or needs to be limiting (i.e. i think the parents’ should be playing more of a role here).  Furthermore i don’t think that trying to regulate this kind of thing is of any use.  People are going to have sex unless they are constantly under lock and key.
At the same time, many children are exploited sexually, and an age limit is one way of society expressing its’ repudiation of this occurance.  Also as a physician (and a heterosexual male) i have found that sex has the potential to cause infinitely more problems than it solves under most circumstances (i.e. outside of a committed/married relationship).  This bears an inverse relationship to the ages of the participants.

And for the record, i think that 14 is too young.  Sixteen is maybe more appropriate.

@AJGundam:

Lol @ Yemen

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say.

@Scarface:

@cystic:

@dezrtfish:

What exactly does your being a physician have to do with anything??

i have the “privilege” of hearing and seeing first hand the results of everyone’s dirty-little-secrets.  Who do you think they all come to when:
they’re late, they have a discharge, they have a lot of pain “down there”, their current/ex-lover tells them about his/her STI, their angst w.r.t. their feelings about said STI/ex-lover, their AIDS meds side-effects, etc. etc. etc.

As a house painter, I have found that sex is a normal instinct that allows us to keep reproducing. If you don’t play it smart,ie Clinton,then their are consequences!!

right - and i was just saying that these consequences are likely more apparent to me than to the average person (although less so than the average sufferer of the consequences)

WHAT IF people of the 12-16 age range in countries outside the United States of America are generally more emotionally mature than people of the same age in the United States?

The United States is pretty weird socially.  Think about it.  It’s okay for kids to see lots of violence when they’re young (which HOPEFULLY they will not do when they get older), but they can’t have sex (which hopefully they WILL do when they get older), or drink (which is ALSO something they should do when they get older).

Funny thing is, you would think that there would be a generally direct or inverse relationship between proscribed and actual behaviors, but there isn’t so much.  Which argues that there is a lack of discipline in general for people of younger ages in the United States as opposed to people of younger ages in other nations.

Or MAYBE it is because other nations keep up totalitarian regimes that oppress their youths.

In short - everything’s subjective, and I’m moving to Yemen to be an high school instructor.

@Scarface:

@cystic:

@dezrtfish:

What exactly does your being a physician have to do with anything?? As a house painter, I have found that sex is a normal instinct that allows us to keep reproducing. If you don’t play it smart,ie Clinton,then their are consequences!!

Are you the poster formerly known as Maddog?

Founded by Puritans, who while holding draconian views about sexuality, free-thinking, and free-expression, evidently had no problem wantonly killing “witches” and “indians”.

@newpaintbrush:

In short - everything’s subjective, and I’m moving to Yemen to be an high school instructor.

Haha very ambitious

@Mechanized:

@AJGundam:

@newpaintbrush:

In short - everything’s subjective, and I’m moving to Yemen to be an high school instructor.

Haha very ambitious

Why not move to Japan?  Everyone there is down with the loli-ism.  :-P

Because Japanese schoolgirls are the scariest stalkers in the world.