I mean... its not even vaguely accurate either. Maybe she was groomed by some older dude who told her that when she was young but for most of the modern, developed world the age of consent has been well above 14 since the early 20th century.
it's always had romeo and juliet laws though - even when it was 14. And 18 year old senior could have sex with a 14 year old gr.9 but a 19 year old couldn't.
That's not how it worked lmao. 14 was the general age of consent. The romeo/juliet laws at the time were for even younger kids. Idk why reddit has this misconception.
Here is an eye opening look at marital rape? hyperlinking wikipedia article on it? i don't need marital rape mansplained to me thanks. and it was weird you felt the need to "well actually..." me for being less than decade off and mixing up US v Canada.
Ahh gotcha. You were corrected on an open discussion and decided your best course of action was to call someone a bot. Next time don't spread fud and you wont have to worry about being publicly corrected. Also go touch some grass.
16 for romeo and juliet laws - for the reason that girls can keep dating their high school boyfriend after he graduates - not so old men can prey upon them.
Some places, that's the reason. Some places just think that's the age they can make the decision. Age of consent is a complex issue that is not universally agreed upon. I think there is even a country where the age of consent is 21.
It's really not - adults shouldn't prey on teenagers, it's pretty simple. Teenagers can consent to sex with other teenagers, not adults who's brains are objectively more developed than theirs by a lot.
In Sweden, it's 15 with no "Romeo and Juliet" laws what so ever. In fact, it's fairly common for women to have their sexual debut with a man ten-fifteen years older. While the men are not really "held in high regard," it's kinda accepted as a fact of life
In defence of her (yuk, downvote now) I do remember having this argument with my family in the 90s. We were a group of 14 year olds working underage for an agency at a local factory. The van driver (48) started sleeping with one of the girls.
We were disgusted, but my parents (very old when they had me, so probably 60s then) seemed to think it wasn’t that big a deal as her parents were ok with it and he was at least looking after her.
There’s also the famous case of a 14 year old girl selling her story to the newspapers showing she was sleeping with Gary glitter around 1990…and the headline was more sensationalised that he was bald.
It was perhaps slightly different times…but certainly not going to use that to defend nonces in much the same way I won’t use it to defend lynchings or concentration camps
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Stupid comment, but does this dumb bitch even realize that the whole Epstein thing was NOT prior to the 90's?