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Old 02-18-2019, 12:56 AM
 
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My grandpa was 22, my grandma was 14/15, when he came home from Korea in WW2, they married and eventually had 3 kids, they were married for over 50 yrs, and died within 3 years of each other. NOT A SINGLE person ever called my grandpa anything negative for the age difference, it wasnt even controversial at that time.


Alot of this controversy today about underage/ age differences has nothing to do with concern for protecting minors, I think its more about creating criminals where there was none before...Had my grandpa done the same thing today, he probably would have been called every nasty name in the book and likely been arrested and been labelled a predator, this really indicates how horrible the times are that we live in today.
It's part of the war on sex. There's a book about it.
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Old 02-18-2019, 01:09 AM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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That is the reason for statutory laws. I've seen some 15 year old's of either gender that could easily pass for 20 year old's in both stature and behaviour.
Yup. Even if they look and act more adult than their age, they're still 15, and with a 15-year-old's underdeveloped frontal lobe, so it's the adult's responsibility to help them make better decisions, not worse ones.
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Old 02-18-2019, 02:39 AM
 
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What I don't understand is, why did she turn herself in, as oppose to keeping quiet about it, unless she just had a really guilty conscience?
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Old 02-18-2019, 04:02 AM
 
Location: Here and now.
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Well, 'sex with a minor' could apply to any age under 18. Its basically third degree rape, statutory, only due to the age.


There are certain names for sexual disorders, like pedophilia, which is defined as an attraction to pre pubescent, there is another term for attraction to age 5-9, another term for attraction to 10-12, and I believe, the last one is attraction to ages 12-14/15/16.


Naturally, there is no term for attraction to 15/16 and up, because, well, that is basically normal attraction at that point, there is no 'sexual disorder' in that type of attraction, in other words, its normal. (not much physical difference between a 15/16 yr old and an 18 yr old).
This isn't about sex between someone of 15 or 16 and someone of 18. That's something I can understand, even if I don't particularly condone it. It is normal. For a 40-year-old to get involved with a 15-year-old is not. To think they are pretty? Sure, they probably are. Youth is pretty. To consider them an appropriate sexual partner? Hell, no.
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Old 02-18-2019, 09:03 AM
 
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This isn't about sex between someone of 15 or 16 and someone of 18. That's something I can understand, even if I don't particularly condone it. It is normal. For a 40-year-old to get involved with a 15-year-old is not. To think they are pretty? Sure, they probably are. Youth is pretty. To consider them an appropriate sexual partner? Hell, no.
For a 40 yr old to engage in sex with a 15 yr old is certainly inappropriate, but I dont think it rises to the level of criminal, or even defines the older person as having some kind of disorder...well, they may have some mental disorder for actually doing this, but from an attraction standpoint, its not abnormal at all for someone 40 yrs old to find a 15 or 16 yr old physically attractive.


The physical body of a 15/16 yr old is pretty much the same as an 18 or 19 yr old, so there is no attraction to kids thing going on, the 40 yr old would basically have an attraction to the developed female body (that is normal attraction), it only crosses into disorder/ criminal when the 40 yr old is attracted to someone physically undeveloped.


And this definitely does not apply to ALL 15/16 yr olds, some are more developed than others, that is a huge factor in determining whether the attraction is normal or not.
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Old 02-24-2019, 11:50 AM
 
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Why did she turn herself in though?
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