When is Rape not Rape? When its Date-Rape... :/

[saxitoxin]

how much did that run ya?

LOL - it was nothing like that Scott. I was dating two of them at the time. The third was a waitress at Crustacean we'd met during dinner.

[knapper]

you had sex with a lobster?

i promise to read more carefully when i'm sober.

[keiths31]

As soon as the older people and their older traditions die off, perhaps the US in general will find your reasonable argument to be more agreeable.

Actually...the older people are probably more open to an 18 year old and a 15 year old than say people 35-55. Many of the "older" people got married when they were 15-16 years old to 18-20 year old men. It was quite common at the time...

[CreepersWiener]

Rape is not Rape when a lady dresses like this on my bed voluntarily:

[BigBallinStalin]

As soon as the older people and their older traditions die off, perhaps the US in general will find your reasonable argument to be more agreeable.

Actually...the older people are probably more open to an 18 year old and a 15 year old than say people 35-55. Many of the "older" people got married when they were 15-16 years old to 18-20 year old men. It was quite common at the time...

Well then, it is time to eliminate this disparity gap! We want equality here!

[PLAYER57832]

Yes. I mean, it's not like someone takes a maturity test before they do any of these things. Maturity doesn't only vary with age, but it also is completely subjective. There is no thing as "objective maturity", so saying 18 is the end-all-be-all age where people can start smoking tobacco is fucking stupid (and I don't even smoke). There are tests for obtaining your driver's license, so I'm not completely worried about that one. In the US it's 21 to start drinking, in other countries it's less than 18 (I think)...they're just throwing out arbitrary ages that mean little to nothing.

These are some decent arguments. However, its just not possible to set individual limits for each person.

[BigBallinStalin]

Yes. I mean, it's not like someone takes a maturity test before they do any of these things. Maturity doesn't only vary with age, but it also is completely subjective. There is no thing as "objective maturity", so saying 18 is the end-all-be-all age where people can start smoking tobacco is fucking stupid (and I don't even smoke). There are tests for obtaining your driver's license, so I'm not completely worried about that one. In the US it's 21 to start drinking, in other countries it's less than 18 (I think)...they're just throwing out arbitrary ages that mean little to nothing.

These are some decent arguments. However, its just not possible to set individual limits for each person.

There's limits that differ from State to State, but would you agree or disagree that one standard over the entire US is the best method?

[natty dread]

Rape is not Rape when a lady dresses like this on my bed voluntarily:

Yes it is