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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dividing Line
Message-ID: <160@unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 11:10:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 11:10:21 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

>>possibility that he actually *is* looking for a girl?
>>    Just where is the dividing line anyway?
>
>Yeah! Where is the dividing line?
>
>I have heard several feminists react to use of "girls" by asking if
>everyone was under 13 but I think that is a little young to be a woman.
>

It does seem unfair that an adult male can be imprisioned
for having sex with a 17 year-old, if she is indeed a woman,
and not a girl.

One traditional viewpoint is that a girl becomes a woman
when she has sex for the first time.

		Frank Silbermann
		University of North Carolina

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