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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
12 year olds go to university too sometimes. Intelligence does not mean you are an adult.
This is about power dynamics and coercion. A 15 year old does not have a proper grasp of the consequences of their actions. They are easily manipulated and coerced. That's why they can't vote for example.
I think we live in a culture that idolizes and objectifies bodies to the point that people think sex with teenagers is legitimate because they feel like they are naturally compelled to do it. That's bull ####. Sexual complusion is a maladaptive coping mechanism to a society that enforces gender roles and limits self-expression. Sex is about two autonomous and equal individuals sharing intimacy. This idea that men can't keep it in the pants around children should be insulting to all of us.
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Do 12 year olds habitually live on their own without a guardian? No.
As for your argument about society, that's garbage too. Historically, women were married at age 12-13, and began sexual encounters at that point. Juliet was a 13 year old, and up until very recently, it was the norm for girls that age to get married and start producing their own children. Often these girls were marreid to established men, IE much older. Our society and its morals have changed things so that girls aged 12-16 are less sexualized and now considered legally and morally "off limits".
Despite the alarmist attitudes surrounding teenagers and sex, teenagers are getting pregnant at far lower rates and having sex far later than they have at any point in history. Obviously, part of this has to do with greater access to birth control pills and prophelactics, but those things have been widely available since the 1990s. Pregnancy and abortion rates have fallen dramatically since then. Which indicates that teenagers are having less sex or having it in a more responsible and mature way.
http://micpohling.wordpress.com/2008...ate-1972-2005/
Society has to draw the line somewhere and 16 is a good place. I agree with you that, in general, 15 is too young, which is why this guy is now a registered sex offender and has to serve a jail sentence.