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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dividing Line
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:48:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 09:48:32 1985
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Look, buckos, in the original article (with the "KEYWD: girls"), the kid said
he was in grad school.  How old were most of you when you graduated (or will be
when you plan to graduate) from college? (a usual prerequisite for grad school)
21?  22?  27?  Probably not 17.  Okay, say he's 21 and wants to date 17 year
olds.  Not many of those in college. 

Someone who is 17 is not an adult in most views of the law; therefore having
sex with a 17-year-old is having sex with a minor, and could fall, in some
states, under contributing to delinquency (depending upon the state's laws on
extra-marital sex, etc) of a minor.

No female becomes a woman through the intervention of a man during sexual
activity; just like no male is a boy until he's had sex with a woman.  However,
it can and does happen, that a 13-year-old girl suddenly has to take on 
responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood; the most frequent cause of this
today in the US is pregnancy.

L S Chabot
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