(11-15-2017, 09:37 PM)Adam2012 Wrote: This talk about the age of consent perplexes me.

Are you saying that if you had a 16 year old daughter and the age of consent is 16 you'd be ok with a 32 year old guy (a District Attorney!) coming around to "date" your daughter?

And you'd have no problem with them having sexual relations, because after all the age of consent is 16 so it's cool.

These girls (now women) are real people with real parents. How would you feel?

If my daughter tried to date any man or boy at 16 she would be in trouble. But the idea that shes 'not old enough to know what she wants' is bogus. Girls are generally more mature, not less than boys. While I can certainly be mad at some crusty old kook like olinematters for trying to hit on my daughter, I cannot generally claim that girls at 16 have no clue what sex is or have no desire to have it. I can certainly strongly encourage my daughter not to engage in these things, but to claim its not possible for her to have consensual sex at 16 is preposterous.

The average age of first sex for boys and girls combined was 17 when I was in highschool, and I know for certain the girls were generally younger. This isn't some prepubescent girl who knows nothing in general. These kids are choosing to have sex. Society has decided to place rather arbitrary cut offs of what kind of sex it is 'okay' for a 16 year old to have (i.e. in florida you can have sex with a 16 year old till your 24 legally). 

Thats societies standard and not my own. I personally do not believe in sex before marriage no matter what the age. So to me, whether you fornicate with another 16 year old or a 32 year old is the same. I believe that non mentally impaired girls are capable of deciding they want to have sex at that age, even tho I do not believe they should.

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(11-15-2017, 10:52 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(11-15-2017, 07:37 PM)realtorpat Wrote: you gotta consider he is 70 now and 31 years ago Alabama is a bit different then today Alabama.  Not saying what he did wasn't wrong but at the time it was a bit more common then it is today.

Sexual assault was a lot more common back then too and women were afraid to report such things due to fear of retaliation and being blamed, (as victim blaming was a common thing back then ala was she dressed too sexy, she must be asking for it.) It works both ways. None of us know what the truth is, but the guy had some really creepy behavior and where there is smoke, there is usually fire.

I just read a story on drudge about him grabbing a womans butt and I believe it. It was too specific IMO to be false. Have to say, this guy sounds more like a good ol boy perv in the Bill Clinton vein. I would no longer vote for him no matter what his policies at this point. You are right there is too much smoke.

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