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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
How people find themselves in situations like this is beyond comprehension.
Lately, there's been more and more videos being posted on X / Instagram where adult men are trying to meet up with underage kids. Like wtf you thinking.
How hard is it to follow 2 simple rules?
1. Minimum 18
2. Divide your age + 7
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You're attempting the Friends rule. Half+7 round down, the formula applied to both directions of any given relationship basically comes out to these as acceptable dating ages.
11 too young to date
12 - 12
13 - 13
14 - 14/15 is acceptable.
15 - 14-17
16 - 15-19
17 - 15-21
18 - 16-23
19 - 16-25
20 - 17-27
21 - 17-29
I'm not sure its universally prefect, especially at 17 years old, but its actually pretty close to what feels OK to me. I know when I was 19 I technically dated a 17 year old, for a month or two, because I was 14 months older than my girlfriend at the time. I really don't see something like that as problematic, so there is certainly a line especially in that 16-17 year old age range that age of consent could use a little be more grey area than OK or not OK, I actually really wouldn't mind seeing a more nuanced age of mutual consent rule like that legislated, rather than just drawing a solid line at 16 or 18.